“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.”


in 2018.


But the media didn’t challenge the lack of a cognitive test. One reason might be how angrily Biden snaps at media questions about his sharpness.


“No, I haven’t taken a test. Why


the hell would I take a test? Come on, man,” Biden snapped at CBS


“New York sent not only a congresswoman one of the most congresswoman in the Congress.”


“One of the things I found out as president of the United States, I get to spend a lot of that money . . . We’re spending billions of dollars to do it.”


Barnett in 2020. “That’s like saying you, be-


News correspondent Errol But pears to for


fore you got in this program, you’re taking a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not. What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?” Talk about touchy. Biden’s clear lack of medical dis-


closure is already an issue in the 2024 campaign. GOP candidate Nikki Haley has made a call for giving poli- ticians mental competency tests if they are older than 75. She’s even dis-


counted the idea Biden could serve out a full second term, saying “the idea that he would make it un- til 86 years old is not something I think is likely.”


Biden usually re-


sponds to the con- cerns about him with humor or defl ection — but not always with success. At a rally before a


while Biden ap- have great fondness the late monarch, a few days


later he couldn’t remember Winston Churchill’s name when speaking to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The president also sometimes


abandons jokes about his age and tries to pretend the issue doesn’t ex- ist.


He told reporters in April that


“With regard to age, I can’t even say, I guess, how old I am, I can’t even say the number. It doesn’t register with me.”


But Biden’s age


In June, NBC News found that


68


% of those


friendly audience in June, he noticed the listless crowd. He ap- pealed to them: “A lot of you are tired. You’re tired. No, I get it. Try being 110 and doing it again.” The crowd laughed, but at the end


of his speech he puzzled everyone by shouting “God save the queen.”


ROUGH AND TUMBLE President Joe Biden has reacted angrily to questions about his cognitive abilities, snapping at one reporter: “Why the hell would I take a test?” But his fall at the Air Force Academy graduation in June rekindled concerns about his health.


surveyed were concerned that Biden doesn’t have the necessary mental and physical health to be president, including 55% who say they have “major” concerns.


is now constantly a topic of concern with liberals. Even The New York Times admits “that among party donors it was all anyone was talking about. The issue takes up time at almost ev- ery Washington din- ner party where they gather.” Of course, the media guests pres- ent join in, but then downplay the issue’s signifi cance in their reporting. The American


people deserve much more open and honest answers about Biden’s fi tness to serve, and the media’s conspiracy of silence about Biden’s health issues may well boomerang. As one former Democrat con-


gressman told me: “We are potential- ly only seconds away from Biden’s health becoming the issue of the campaign — what if he falls down again and doesn’t get up? “Or what if he stares off into


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