America Shameful Biden Cover-Up T
White House and media conspired to keep Americans in the dark about the president’s mental and physical decline. BY JOHN FUND
here’s an old joke about a politician who is caught in a compromising position by his wife.
Without skipping a beat and with
no shame, he denies anything hap- pened, saying: “Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” The American people could iden-
tify with that story after the way Joe Biden’s White House engaged in a
acuity to fellow octogenarians Harri- son Ford and Mick Jagger. But alas, the debate in June exposed
systematic cover-up of his health prob- lems — not just for months, but for years.
Biden’s aides in the White House
and his campaign scoffed at questions about the president’s age, health, and mental acuity. Biden was effectively shielded from
the kinds of public settings that might increase scrutiny of his mental sharp- ness.
Inside the White House, it was
“ He’s far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he’s better than he’s ever been intellectually, analytically.”
even called “Operation Bubble Wrap,” and it involved a team of aides nick- named “The Fall Guys.” They were deployed to make sure Biden avoided one-on-one interviews, had him exit stairs from the lower level of Air Force One to avoid falls, equipped him with wide-soled, nonskid sneakers, and surrounded him every time he walked in public to obscure his stiff- ened gait. Biden surrogates like Holly-
— Joe Scarborough, March 6 on MSNBC
wood producer Jeffrey Katzen- berg repeatedly insisted Biden’s age was his “superpower.” He compared Biden’s vigor and
Long History of Complicity T
he sad truth is that reporters and their bosses
have a long history of enabling White House cover-ups of a president’s health. Woodrow Wilson, after
his stroke in 1919, had his wife practically running the government behind the scenes for a year and a half. On any given day in
ofice, John F. Kennedy was using up to 12 painkillers and medications that brought on
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that fantasy to everyone watching television. Following Biden’s disastrous per- formance, Democrats were forced to confront the long-suppressed vulner- abilities of their 81-year-old presi- dential nominee. Democrat senators told report-
ers they felt “lied to” about Biden’s condition. Even some of his clos- est allies, like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said publicly it was valid to ask whether Biden’s face- plant debate stumbles were just one- offs or evidence of a “condition.” Contrast those sudden realiza-
tions with the reaction in Febru- ary when the Justice Department released Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s possession of classified documents. Hur concluded the president shouldn’t be charged with a crimi- nal offense in part because a sym- pathetic jury would see him as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who showed “diminished faculties.” Instead of reporting with alarm
that the man with exclusive access to the suitcase with nuclear launch
myriad side effects. His Addison’s disease was
carefully hidden from the public, and some doctors believe he wouldn’t have survived a second term if he hadn’t been assassinated. But the most egregious
cover-up involved Franklin D. Roosevelt hiding the fact he was dying from the public in the election year of 1944. In January of that year,
naval doctor Ross McIntire, the
president’s personal physician for 12 years, told reporters that FDR’s health was the best it had been since he started examining him. Several days later, McIntire
was promoted to rear admiral. In March, McIntire
diagnosed FDR with acute congestive heart failure, and in July told him he probably wouldn’t finish a fourth term if he won it. A day later, Roosevelt announced he would run for reelection. In September, McIntire
assured the press that FDR had “absolutely no organic dificulties at all.” With such assurances, a
few carefully staged campaign appearances, and the silence of the White House press corps, Roosevelt won. Then, in January 1945, a dying, drugged-up FDR left for a fateful summit with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin in Yalta. In a letter, Roosevelt described his negotiating strategy to his
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