Though then-President Joe Biden’s physical and cognitive decline seemed obvious during his four years in office, questions asked and points raised about his condition by critics were treated with visceral contempt by Democrats and the media.
A few weeks before the infamous June 2024 presidential debate between Biden and then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, we were being informed by the press, the Biden-Harris White House and the Biden-Harris campaign that short video clips showing him looking lost and confused were “cheap fakes” that didn’t give us the full picture.
It was only after that debate, where Biden put on a disastrous performance and essentially confirmed the suspicions of many, that the Usual Suspects knew they couldn’t gaslight voters about the issue anymore. It’s what eventually led to Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic presidential nominee after Biden was essentially forced out of the race by panicking party members.
Now here we are, nearly a year later, and not only is Donald Trump president, but there are also numerous books coming out on the topic, with one in particular — “Original Sin” — getting a lot of attention over what it revealed about the extent of the cover-up and how far back the decline was suspected.
Incredibly, many Democrats are still feigning ignorance over what they undoubtedly had to have seen, with some of those closest to Biden, like powerful House Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), claiming in a recent interview that he hadn’t been around Biden enough to notice anything of concern.
Further, Clyburn said, “For us to sit here and talk about Joe Biden as if we are physicians and can make these kinds of evaluations — a lot of us are interacting with him could not make an evaluation like that. And I still can’t.”
Even if what Clyburn claimed about not being around Biden a lot is true, there are people in Biden’s inner circle who were around him often enough to know, and yet, they’re maintaining that the Biden they knew was fit to lead the country another four years.
For their part, mainstream media reporters are acting shocked by what they’ve read in the book, with its authors — Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper — suggesting the reason the MSM didn’t do any more reporting on this subject than they did is because Democrats and the Biden-Harris White House hid it from them.
The problem with that is that one didn’t need to be close to Biden to see what was going on. It was a “when you know, you know” thing, and if people who didn’t know Biden could see it, you know his top aides, family members and members of the press did.
All of this has led to renewed questions about who knew what and when, how high the level of deception went and, most importantly, who was really running the country if Biden couldn’t.
On Sunday, a Biden spokesperson announced the former president had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.
While I certainly pray for Biden and his family, this raises even more questions about his health while in office because, as some health experts have observed, one would think a yearly physical and/or some bloodwork could have given clues about this way before now. And there is speculation that perhaps even this was also known and covered up by the Biden-Harris White House.
As far as I’m concerned, Biden officials should be questioned by congressional committees to learn what they knew and when. This is a massive political scandal, one of the biggest in presidential history, and those who were in the know should be held to account in the court of public opinion.
North Carolina native Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a media analyst and regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.
