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Posted on 05/20/2025 8:25:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
It was the most poorly kept secret in Washington, DC – a city known all too well for poorly kept secrets. The country’s chief executive, supposed leader of the free world, was neither mentally nor physically up to the job. Before the very eyes of the American people, Joe Biden was deteriorating. It seemed as if every time he appeared in public, Biden said or did something bizarre. There were confusing monologues, sometimes almost unintelligible; there were episodes of paralysis; the impromptu wandering off – clearly in the wrong direction. It all played out on national television, and everyone was told not to believe their own eyes.
The pro-Democrat establishment media was all in on the attempted cover-up of Biden’s undeniable cognitive decline. But once the dust of the 2024 election settled, the journalists who swore Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack” – and that exact phrase was used repeatedly – have made great efforts to distance themselves from what has become the biggest political and media scandal in decades. Indeed, one could argue, the biggest in American history, considering the stakes and the consequences. The news of Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis – awful as it is for the Biden family – will not prove the distraction some in the media are already hoping it will. But the claims that they were deceived along with everyone else about Biden’s condition haven’t worked for these Fourth Estate elitists. Nobody is buying what they are now trying to sell because the cover-up was happening in real time over just the past five years. The newsreels, the articles, and the social media posts memorialized it all.
The Long and Unmissable Decline of Joe Biden
Hubris has been their undoing. These Biden-friendly journalists – many of whom in 2023 and 2024, and as far back as 2020, were openly scornful of any suggestion that Joe Biden was struggling – can’t help themselves. Now, they either claim that they saw the decline and reported it honestly, or they were lied to by the Biden White House and were led to believe the incumbent was as fit as a fiddle and was dealing with just a minor stutter.
The one man who unwittingly thrust the whole sordid business into the spotlight, while attempting to promote his upcoming book, is veteran journalist Jake Tapper. The book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, will be released on May 20 and is Tapper’s attempt to portray himself as a fearless reporter exposing a scandal at the very highest levels of government.
The problem is that everyone who paid attention, including Tapper, had been well-acquainted with the cover-up since at least sometime in 2023. Those watching more closely could see the signs even during the early weeks of Biden’s single presidential term, however. Biden’s “Basement campaign” of 2020 was about using the pandemic as an excuse to avoid the exertion and public exposure of the traditional presidential campaign.
Even as the media painted the discussion around Joe Biden as a right-wing conspiracy theory, the chief executive’s difficulties were on full display. And Tapper himself, despite his current denials, was very much a part of the full-court press – pun intended – to convince everyone that all was well.
On October 18th, 2020, Lara Trump appeared on CNN to assert that Joe Biden, even then, was showing clear signs of what she termed a “cognitive decline.” Tapper was clearly both disgusted and angry, dismissing the claims outright.
As late into the Biden presidency as mid-May of 2024, Tapper, while interviewing Atlantic writer Franklin Foer, asserted that Joe Biden was mentally “sharp.”
In fact, there are multiple examples of Jake Tapper – along with so many of his journalist colleagues – on record dismissing questions about Biden’s mental acuity as “false claims.” They even went as far as suggesting that videos showing the then-president staring off into space or wandering away at inappropriate times during public functions were “cheap fakes” or had been deceptively edited.
Democrats and the Media Doth Protest Too Much
The ridiculous lengths to which the White House, working hand-in-hand with a compliant media, made the whole thing so much more egregious.
Rather than simply insisting Joe Biden was in good health, the official narrative was that his physical and mental condition surpassed any previous president. He was portrayed as Superman and Einstein wrapped into one: a man of boundless energy whose aides could barely keep pace and a brilliant statesman with the minutia of every issue at his fingertips. The reality couldn’t have been more different.
Now, and largely thanks to Tapper’s eagerness to promote himself and his book, the floodgates have opened. Several journalists and a few elected Democrats are publicly stating they knew nothing about Biden’s decline. Some of those journalists are blaming the Biden White House for keeping them in the dark. All they really had to do was observe Joe Biden and listen to him speak. One didn’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce something wasn’t right.
This whole affair will have lasting repercussions. Every future president over a certain age will be closely scrutinized for any hint of cognitive deterioration – adding extra pressure to perhaps the world’s most high-pressure job. The Democratic Party may not pull itself out of the shadow of Joe Biden and his largely stage-managed presidency for years. As for the establishment media, already withering on the vine, this whole grand deception may be the final nail in the proverbial coffin. No rational American is unaware of the role journalists like Tapper willingly played in a scandal so big that it has shaken the very foundations of the precious democracy they claim to hold so dear.
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All led by Dr. Jill.
....agree....it may not be the most Christian thoughts that I have about this whole sordid affair, but when the time comes, I hope their souls rot in Hell for eternity for what they did to this once-great country....
But thank goodness the 2020 election was the cleanest election ever. All the important people told me so, so it must be true.
ABCNNBCBSNPR: WHO YA GONNA BELIEVE? US OR YOUR LYIN’ EYES?....................
William Shatner saw this 58 years ago
I recall posting in the 2020 campaign (and I wasn’t the only one) that the Democrats wanted Biden because he was an empty shell, a useful, hollow vessel that they could pour all of their liberal policy fantasies into, and then pull the strings to see them enacted.
I believed it then.
I believe it now.
ABCNNBCBSNPR: WHO YA GONNA BELIEVE? US OR YOUR LYIN’ EYES?....................
And that should include pharmaceuticals. Why do they push things like Statin drugs? Even my endocrinologist admitted to me that they know there is a link between memory loss and continued use of Statins for cholesterol but as he states “Its minimal”.
veteran journalist Jake Tapper /s
“People might start thinking that the Power Elite just lie to us about everything.”
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Those in power want to stay in power, and they want to increase their power. At best, whatever the tell us is self-serving. Unfortunately, we as a society don’t demand honesty or accountability from the elites or their media allies.
Conspiracy to commit fraud.
Criminal fraud.
Both against the people of the USA.
The media can be held culpable.
Still waiting for the AG to appoint special counsel to get the ball rolling.
She must be busy...getting on the news and all that is lots of work.
A case like this lands on a prosecutors lap once in a lifetime. I hope she realizes that.
So who you gonna believe - Dr. Jill, or your lying eyes?
Dr. Jill pushed, cajoled, bullied, and made unkeepable promises to gain the title of “First Lady”, regardless of who got trampled, abused or simply wasted when they got in the way. And yet, she is nowhere nearly as scary as Herself, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the previous “Madam President”.
The guy stole the 2020 and proceeded to destroy
He’s completely demented
He’s got a slow growing cancer that is extremely common at his age
How can anyone think this stupid story is anything but a distraction
...oh, she’s busy all right....I am turning blue, having held my breath, waiting for all of the materials relating to Epstein’s suicide [sic] to be made public...but, not to worry, as Mr. Patel and Mr. Bongino have assured us that Epstein DID INDEED off himself in his prison cell... this is from another web site....very interesting....
“Attorney General Pam Bondi’s links to Qatar are under scrutiny again following reports that President Donald Trump will be gifted a luxury plane from the Qatari government.
“Bondi worked as a foreign lobbyist for the nation of Qatar, earning $115,000 a month in the role which she held in 2020 and in the run up to the World Cup in 2022.
“In this role, she lobbied Congress on behalf of Qatari interests. She also worked in a separate lobbying position for the Washington, D.C.-based firm Ballard Partners, where she also lobbied on behalf of Qatari interests and several conglomerates including Amazon.
“Her links to Qatar were previously raised by Democratic members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in January, who accused Bondi of failing to disclose her ties to the nation.
“They are being brought to public attention again, following reports that the Qatari government is working on providing the president with a plane referred to as a “floating palace” for “temporary use as Air Force One.”
“The Department of Justice has been contacted for comment.
Another organization that has more effectively completely destroyed its reputation and credibility all on it’s own with no help from the outside.
Just like the medical/big pharma complex.
“Still waiting for the AG to appoint special counsel to get the ball rolling. She must be busy...getting on the news and all that is lots of work.”
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Fox gigs are obviously a much higher priority for her. Plus stonewalling the release of Epstein docs is a distraction. /sarc
Then in the 2020 campaign, Biden showed up at some of the early debates. I remember being stunned at how much older and slower he appeared in such a short time. It's simply not possible that people who had worked with him, or covered him through his years in politics did not notice this.
We're used to being lied to by the mainstream media, so when they started lying about his mental condition in 2020, I just thought it was more of the same. But I have to admit, I didn't expect the media to act so surprised, as if they just found out last summer that Biden was slipping. Of course, they're probably just lying to us again.
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