Biden was senile when sworn in

 Daily Mail:

The White House tried to hide from the public Joe Biden's rapidly diminishing mental condition for his entire presidency, according to a bombshell report.

Biden's team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president, scrapped meetings on his 'bad days', and kept him at arm's length from his own Cabinet members.

An explosive investigation by The Wall Street Journal has exposed an extensive, deliberate and years-long cover-up that also saw the administration gaslighting those who dared to claim Biden's abilities had deteriorated since he was Barack Obama's vice president.

Despite the efforts of 'eager beaver hand-holders', Biden's decline became increasingly obvious, especially after Special Counsel Robert Hur last year released a report depicting a forgetful and frail then-81 year old. 

Hur decided not to charge Biden for keeping classified documents in his Delaware garage because he 'would likely present himself to a jury' as a 'sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.'

Biden could not even repeat back to his staff lines they fed him while preparing for his interview with Hur, the Journal reported.

At the White House, Biden would also cancel important national security meetings, leaving aides to explaining to attendees that the president had 'bad days and good days'.

A well-connected Democratic strategist confirmed to DailyMail.com that influence over Biden had been 'concentrated by people who are not external facing,' including his close advisors Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti, and Mike Donilon. 

Biden's lower-level staff have long griped that this secretive 'triumvirate' – also known as the 'Biden whisperers' – developed an outsized influence over America's oldest ever president. As his term comes to an end, many in Washington agree that it has been hard to tell who is actually in charge of running the country.

Egregious examples of the White House cover-up included one relayed by Democratic Congressman Adam Smith

In 2021, when Smith was chair of the House Armed Services Committee, he tried desperately to get in touch with Biden ahead of the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan to share his serious concerns about the plan. His attempts were rebuffed.

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What seems to be the case is that Democrats were taking advantage of a frail Biden to win an election rather than getting someone who would be more competent to run.  It was something like a coup by the Biden advisors.  They apparently were pulling his strings and pushing him onto the stage despite has cognitive difficulties.   One of the results of this operation was that Russia took advantage of Biden's condition to attack Ukraine.  China also became more aggressive.

See also:

Don’t Blame Biden’s Failed Presidency on His Age Alone

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Biden didn’t ignore intelligence assessments, make himself unavailable to his advisers, and forge headlong into a disaster in Afghanistan because he was mentally unfit. The debacle in Central Asia he engineered is consistent with Biden’s instincts on foreign policy throughout his career in public life.

Likewise, it wasn’t Biden who crafted from whole cloth the lunatic notion that his narrow election, coupled with his party’s underperformance in 2020, granted Democrats a mandate to remake the American social compact via a multi-trillion-dollar legislative blitz. Biden merely bit on a dubious rationale his advisers were retailing, and he clung to it even after the glittering jewel of his domestic agenda, Build Back Better, exploded on the launch pad.
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