Biden’s mental decline was kept from the voters by his inner circle
What Biden’s Inner Circle told him About the Clinton-Hochzeit Theorem and Why he Never Wanted to Give Up
I have talked to his pollsters more than he ever has and they did not think that. Schumer had a conversation with Biden that he believes Biden should drop out of the race. He says, “I’ve talked to your pollsters. They give you a 5% chance of winning.” Biden was not aware that because all the polling was interpreted by Steve and Donilon, who he didn’t know. When I talked with one of the pollsters about that story, 5%, he said it was probably more like 1%.
Tapper: He still thinks that. He still feels like he could have won. We believe he went on The View to say no to the book. And he was asked about that. He said that he had 7 million more votes than Donald Trump.
“He can do it. He performs at a game day. He’ll do it.” Everybody wrote him off in 2008 and then he became the best vice president in history. He beat Donald Trump after everybody wrote him off. He’s the only one who’s beaten Donald Trump. And that theology took root. It’s the theology of the President of the United States. And who is anybody to challenge that?
And he says in one of his memoirs, “Get up” was what his father used to say to him. And that’s the way you measure a man, your ability to get up. It became a theology and a mythology. And like any theology, skepticism was not permitted. That is the inner circle of Biden.
He has had a number of life-threatening illnesses and misfortunes that have caused him to fall on his face but he has still managed to get up.
Source: This new book explores how Biden’s inner circle kept his mental decline from voters
The Mythology of Joe Biden: The White House Official’s Failure to Communicate with the Public on a Subjective, I-CANADA-SENTENCE Biden
There is a chapter about the legend of Joe Biden in the book. Which I don’t mean in a pejorative sense, but just the story, the mythology of Joe Biden.
The White House official said that they didn’t know the extent of the decline. The schedule became much tighter and more restricted.
Thompson: The top aide who left the White House alleged that he was protected from other members of the administration and other members of the cabinet. The inner circle was smaller and smaller.
Detrow: You were talking about the framing of the cover up. He’s giving speeches. He’s appearing in public. He’s carrying out the duties of the presidency. As you reported, there is a concerted effort to stop him. What was being done by that circle of aides?
He did not recognize George Clooney. That is somebody who is not only somebody he’d known for more than 15 years, not only somebody that he had had serious conversations about Darfur with, not only somebody that had raised millions of dollars for him and was co-hosting that very fundraiser. He’s also one of the most recognizable people in the world. So, I’m talking about that. At the debate, we saw a non- functioning, I- cannot-articulate-a-sentence Biden.
Source: This new book explores how Biden’s inner circle kept his mental decline from voters
Biden’s Theorem: A Cover Up of the Biden Debacle in 2023 – Beyond the Post-Whiskey Requirements
We’re talking about to the point of you not being able to have a conversation. You don’t have the data, information, knowledge, names you should have at the ready.
It was not possible to come up with the names of top advisers or close friends. We’re all human, I would say that. We all forget names. We all lose our train of thought. We all witness that in people who are aging.
The ratio of that functioning and non- functioning is going to change dramatically and Biden is getting worse. The White House, the people around them — we had one senior White House official who left because they were upset over what was happening and didn’t think he should be running for reelection.
Why were so many people surprised by the debate if it wasn’t a cover up? Beginning in fall of 2023, our reporting shows, based on the interviews of over 200 people, that there were two Bidens: there was a functioning Biden and non-functioning Biden. And it goes back to 2019. But he was almost always functioning Biden.
The inner circle thinks that he could have been a great president until January 2029, even if he hadn’t won. It’s not real at this time. We can see it. We talked to a top Democrat who saw what everybody saw: how he didn’t seem great. He was not up to date on things. We’ve seen him before in public life. He’s been in public life for over 40 years. We have seen how old he is.
I mean, we had all seen him aging. We had all seen him tripping and misspeaking. We had all seen evidence of decline, but the Biden team, family and senior advisors were telling everybody, not just media and not just the public, but also Democratic donors and members of Congress: “He’s fine. He’s fine. He’s fine.
“We finally beat Medicare,” writes Joe Biden during a 2018 Iowa State Fair Game with Dana Bash and I: Sources, sources, and the lost side
Dana Bash and I had the iPad to write to the people in the control room, because we couldn’t talk to them during the commercial breaks. And I wrote, “Holy Smokes,” during that first rambling, awful non-answer where he said, “We finally beat Medicare.” I just couldn’t believe it.
The upcoming book comes as Biden’s personal office announced in a statement Sunday that he has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, which has metastasized to the bone. Biden was seen for further tests following a finding of a cancer.
Tapper and Thompson joined All Things Considered host Scott Detrow on Thursday to discuss the process of writing the book and why they felt now was the right time to publish.
What is the issue? The two had known each other since 1981, with Donilon being one of Biden’s close aides for decades and a White House desk close to the Oval Office.
The year is 2019 and presidential hopeful Joe Biden is on a campaign swing in Iowa. During the event, Biden struggles to remember the names of one of his aides, Mike Donilon.
In an authors’ note, Tapper and Thompson highlight the book’s 200 sources — lots of lawmakers and campaign and administration insiders — most of whom agreed to talk to them only after the election. Some spoke to us with regret, that they had not done more or that they had waited so long. Many were angry and betrayed by Biden, not just by him but by his inner circle of advisers. guilt, blame, and not my-fault-ism are the standard impulses of the losing side in campaign books.
It isn’t certain when Biden’s diminishment began, but there were many signs over several years that it would go on for a long time. It started after the death of the president’s oldest son. The White House aide tells the authors thatBeau’s death wrecked him. Beau died and a part of him died never coming back. The later legal troubles surrounding Biden’s son Hunter — particularly the collapse of a 2023 deal on tax and gun charges — also proved an “inflection point,” Tapper and Thompson write, citing Biden aides, “where the president suddenly and steeply declined.”
These are just a few examples that Tapper and Thompson have reported, which will be used in the debate between Biden and Trump on June 27, 2024. “What the world saw at his one and only 2024 debate was not an anomaly,” Tapper and Thompson write. Someone did not underprep or overprep for the cold. It was not someone who just was a little tired.
