A new report published Thursday revealed new insights into the White House’s efforts to conceal President Joe Biden’s severe cognitive decline over the last four years.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Biden’s handlers limited who he spoke to, what information they gave him, and what news he consumed.
Nearly 50 Democrats — various politicians, aides, and administration officials — spoke to the Journal for the report in which they described the “hand holding” they witnessed from Biden’s handlers, which they said was unlike anything they’ve ever seen before.
The report said that Biden’s cognitive decline was so bad that a wall was built around him to mask his struggles, which were so significant that they could “upset the world order.”
Within just the first few months after taking office, Biden already showed signs of cognitive decline associated with “advanced age,” the report said. He simply could not do his job if he was involved in long meetings because he became “tired” and would “make mistakes.”
Biden’s team told those who were allowed access to the president that they had to keep meetings very short and to the point with him if they were granted time.
CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
The report said that the degree to which his staff hid him from top lawmakers, donors, and even his own cabinet secretaries was something they’ve never seen happen with a president.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), then-chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, reportedly tried to urgently get in touch with Biden before his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan because he wanted to warn Biden that he was headed for disaster.
The phone call never happened and the rest is history: 13 U.S. service members were murdered in a suicide bombing and images of people falling off of airplanes during the debacle embarrassed the U.S. military.
Numerous officials said that they never got any time to speak with Biden and instead had to deal with his staff who seemingly did most of his work for him.
Biden’s staff worked so hard to shield his cognitive decline from the outside world that some of his own cabinet secretaries gave up even trying to communicate with Biden because requests to talk to him “wouldn’t be welcome.”
The cabinet secretaries who did have interactions with the White House often only were allowed to speak with Biden’s inner circle of handlers, not Biden.
As Biden’s mind continued to deteriorate over his time as president, so did the number of meetings that he held with his top secretaries, like Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the report said.
Biden’s legal team prepared him over the course of a week for his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in the criminal investigation into his handling of classified information. When the interview came, Biden could not remember most of what he had been instructed to say and he struggled to answer basic questions.
The report continued:
Biden’s team also insulated him on the campaign trail. In the summer of 2023, one prominent Democratic donor put together a small event for Biden’s re-election bid. The donor was shocked when a campaign official told him that attendees shouldn’t expect to have a free ranging question-and-answer session with the president. Instead, the organizer was told to send in two or three questions ahead of time that Biden would answer.
At some events, the Biden campaign printed the pre-approved questions on notecards and then gave donors the cards to read the questions. Even with all these steps, Biden made flubs, which confounded the donors who knew that Biden had the questions ahead of time.
The report said that some of Biden’s lower-level handlers had to repeatedly remind him of basic things like where he should walk and sit.
Biden’s higher-level handlers hid polling data from him, leading him to believe delusional things like the race between himself and Donald Trump was a tossup when, in reality, Biden was headed for a historic drubbing.
Top Democrats were forced to intervene and speak with Biden directly after learning that his staff was lying to him about his chances against Trump.
When confronted on a phone call in mid-July about the dire state of his re-election prospects, Biden “became angry when challenged” and told those on the call he “had to go to church” and hung up the phone. He dropped out a week later.
