I am undecided on what they knew and when they knew it.
The WH can quickly develop into a cult and/or bunker mentality.
Part of this is institutional—the national security state has gotten so out of hand that almost everything is compartmentalized and “need to know” which creates a culture of silence, secrecy and even intrigue.
Once you get skilled at keeping one set of secrets it is easy to drift into keeping other types of secrets.
Dementia is always a crap shoot—victims can perform ok for years and then crash and burn on a dime—or the decline can be so gradual that people close to Joe might not notice the change on a day to day basis.
Remember—they were lying about Joe’s mental state in 2020—they got in the habit of it.
Well, I knew Joe was toasted back in 2019.
I refuse to believe their strategists did not know this as well. Actually, we know for a fact they did because they hid him and covered for him. Otherwise, they would let him do events then they would be genuinely dumbfounded when he shook the hand of the flag, blew a rasberry and crop-dusted the honor guard.
There is a lot of money at stake in politics of this country. This has all been carefully thought through.
Totally unrelated, I read a story the other day, said that AI can predict the dementia track with 86% accuracy.