WSJ: The Conspiracy to Hide Biden’s Condition Is Nearly Three Years Old

    By Charles C. W. Cooke

Monday, July 22, 2024

 

The Wall Street Journal puts a date on the start of the cover-up of Biden’s senility:

 

President Biden had just finished trying to persuade a group of congressional Democrats to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill when Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, took the microphone.

 

In 30 minutes of remarks on Capitol Hill, Biden had spoken disjointedly and failed to make a concrete ask of lawmakers, according to Democrats in the room. After he left, a visibly frustrated Pelosi told the group she would articulate what Biden had been trying to say, one lawmaker said.

 

“It was the first time I remember people pretty jarred by what they had seen,” recalled Rep. Dean Phillips (D., Minn.), who would go on to mount an unsuccessful primary challenge against the president.

 

That was October 2021. That month was the last time Biden met with the House Democratic caucus on the Hill regarding legislation.

 

“October 2021.” That’s nearly three years ago.

 

Complaining about this, Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas said this to the Journal:

 

“I am really concerned about what we were not told during these months,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D., Texas) in an interview. “I remain concerned about that—that for whatever reasons, this overprotective, stage-managed kind of operation not only appears to have denied the American people broadly of an understanding of the president’s current situation, but also other elected officials.”

 

That’s one hell of a euphemism, isn’t it? An “overprotective, stage-managed kind of operation” that “denied the American people broadly of an understanding of the president’s current situation, but also other elected officials”! By which Doggett means . . . a conspiracy. This was a conspiracy, perpetrated by the White House against the public, some parts of the press, the broader Democratic Party, and Congress.

 

Now that Biden has stepped down, the media will try to move on. It must not be allowed to — not least because Biden’s most likely replacement on the ticket, Kamala Harris, was in on it all along.