Posted on 07/11/2024 12:41:48 PM PDT by grundle
CNN talked to more than two dozen current and former Democratic officials, donors and longtime Biden allies, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid alienating Biden and discuss sensitive health matters verboten by the White House. While it’s clear the president had aged in the past year, none of them said they had seen the version of Biden, faltering and dazed, that showed up at last month’s debate.
In many of these conversations, sources blamed the president’s inner circle of advisers and family for what they said has become a painstakingly choreographed daily operation designed to prevent him from being in unscripted settings for extended periods of time.
“There’s this general sense of just, unbelievable holding your breath every time he does an event, every time he’s with people,” one top Democrat in close touch with Biden’s inner circle of advisers told CNN. This person added that some of those advisers have privately acknowledged: “This is going to get worse.”
That Democrat was blunt about how the president’s closest advisers have responded to any criticism or concerns expressed about the president – including his age and fitness: “Everyone who expresses any level of suspicion or contrary views? They call everyone and they beat the s*** out of them and say: ‘Stay on message.’”
At least one official involved in Biden’s debate prep at Camp David raised doubts about his ability after seeing how rehearsals were going, according to one source briefed on those preparations.
“It’s not like Biden’s inner circle didn’t know this,” one Democratic strategist close to the White House said of the extent of the president’s recent decline.
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Liars running for cover. Everybody has known for a long time that Joe’s brain wasn’t working properly.
In many of these conversations, sources blamed the president’s inner circle of advisers and family for what they said has become a painstakingly choreographed daily operation designed to prevent him from being in unscripted settings for extended periods of time.
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The MSM are either liars or incompetent (or both). The only way the Washington Press Corps was ignorant of Biden’s deterioration is if they were WILLINGLY ignorant.
Those in the public who were fooled deserve it for being so gullible
LOL! Now comes the blame game.
I’m a housewife in the middle of flyover country and I had Biden pegged as a lying leader of a crime family and demented in about 1018
So…BS
LOL like the Dems NEVER knew..really, Im supposed to believe that NO ONE knew that Biden has mid to end stage dementia..oh really! Please, EVERYONE KNEW, but this is all about ONE thing and that is POWER..the Dems see their power slowly diminishing away and they are terrified
I’m surprised that they are surprised
what decline, it was jet lag
They were told not to report it, naturally they complied.
There are no secrets in Washington D.C. They all knew, every greasy, stinking one of them.
“I’m surprised that they are surprised”
They say they were surprised.
They were not actually surprised. That’s a different thing.
“Stunned”.
What a bunch of self-serving lying traitors.
If Biden drops out, who will Heels-up Harris pick for VP candidate????
If Biden drops out, who will Heels-up Harris pick for VP candidate????
Makes NO difference toy the feckless moron Joy Reid.
Replace the name Biden with Trump (or any Republican president for that matter) and consider how differently this would have played out vis-a-vis the “media”.
And on and on it goes, the press running interference for the lying power mad dems.
Let the finger pointing begin... And then lets begin the investigation and identify those who’ve been subverting the constitution to prop up a vegetable as the leader of the free world. Crimes have been committed and those who’ve broken them must be prosecuted.
Exactly. They ALL knew but sold their souls a long time ago.
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