future incidents.
• Forgetting or confusing the names or titles of people he has known for years. During a speech in November 2023, Biden referred to former President Donald Trump as “Congressman Trump.” Trump never served in Con- gress. Biden has also repeatedly mistaken his location and has had trouble navigating stages during campaign appearances.
• Appearing short-tempered, often snapping at reporters. Following a Cabinet meeting in January 2022, the presi- dent was caught on a hot mic calling a White House re- porter a “stupid son of a b****” in response to a question asked on infl ation. Perhaps more troubling, what has been witnessed on the
public stage has been playing out behind closed doors for years, according to a White House staff er who has had ac- cess to the president. “There were moments when the president would do
something strange or just act a little confused, but no one I heard would say anything about it out loud,” said the source, who would only agree to speak to Newsmax on the condition of anonymity. “It wasn’t talked about. It was always just chalked up to
Joe being Joe. “But I think it is fair to say there was a sense that there
was something much more signifi cant happening, and that there could be some kind of issue,” the staff er added. In one instance, the staff er recalled witnessing Biden at-
tempt to pick something up from a table that no one else could see. He repeated the behavior twice. In another, the president answered a question that no
one had asked, setting off a ripple of nervous side glances from others in the room. When the right question was re- peated, the president answered appropriately, according to the source. “It wasn’t as if he just misheard the question,” said the
2 Brain Surgeries in 1 Year Did these traumas contribute to his decline?
P
resident Joe Biden’s advanced age is most
likely only one of many factors contributing to his mental decline. The lasting, long-term
eff ects resulting from two back-to-back brain surgeries performed decades earlier on the then-senator could also be playing a pivotal role. Biden was forced to
undergo the surgeries in 1988, just after his first attempt to run for president
ended, with a plagiarism scandal forcing him out of that year’s Democrat primary.
Biden, then 45,
underwent a lifesaving, six- hour surgical procedure that February to fix an aneurysm that had begun leaking at the base of his brain. Three months later,
he underwent a second operation to repair another aneurysm, this time on the opposite side of his brain, which was reportedly at risk
of bursting. “His brain
was opened up twice,” said former White House physician Ronny Jackson, now a Republican congressman from Texas. “The
negative residual eff ects. “From
1988 Joe Biden and family speak to reporters after his successful brain aneurysm surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
majority of patients who have this kind of surgery experience some kind of
what I can observe, and I need to clarify that this is only from observation, but I think the president is suff ering from
a combination of dementia with the added residual
eff ects from those two very traumatic surgeries,” Jackson said.
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