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it can be told again, that's right. Joe Biden's physical
deterioration was so severe in twenty twenty three and twenty
twenty four that even though we could all see it,
and even though his advisors and all the Democrats in
the media, but I repeat myself, we're denying it. Advisors
privately discussed the possibility that he would need to use
a wheelchair if he won reelection. This was a conversation
that his people had they were going to have to
have him in a wheelchair. But after the election. This
according to CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson in
their new book coming out May twentieth, original sin, which
I'm like, what is the the original sin that he
thought he could win again? Is that the original sin?
Or is it that he I'm not going to buy
the book, but they're releasing excerpts of the book. And
Jake Tapper this guy, like I used to have a
modicum of respect for this guy. Yeah, I mean it's
been a long time. Don't get me wrong, it's been
like years ago that I thought he's he's not as
terrible as like a lot of the other people. But
he just went like Trump broke him. And we played
the clip before of him haranguing Lara Trump when she
was what the rnc CO chair I think and she
was talking about Joe Biden's mental decline, and he was like,
he has a stutter. It's a stutter. What do you
think people with stutters think about your criticism? Because that's
what's going on. Like he would savage anybody that even
suggested that Joe Biden was in mental cognitive decline. And
now he's got a book where he and Alex Thompson
from Axios have interviewed two hundred people and they're saying, eh, yeah,
he was in decline, which we could all see the
discussions reflected the extent of the president's declining health, particularly
the significant degeneration of his spine, and his aides alarm
over it as Biden sought a second term at age
eighty one. The conversations also revealed the White House's determination
to conceal the reality of Biden's condition. Well, no, crap,
we all knew that we were covering this for years,
and we were accused of doing cheap fakes. That's a
cheap fake. We would point out, Hey, do you hear
the audio of Joe Biden during these like one or
two interviews that he would do in the entire tenure,
The audio sounds really weird. Why is that? What's good?
His voice is so low. They have to raise the
mike volume all the way up. And when you raise
the mic volume all the way up in order to
capture the frail vocal cords, then you get room noise
and it just sounds like underneath. And that's the way
all of it. I pointed this out when he was
on the View the other day last week. Same thing.
They have to they got to crank up his mic
levels because his voice is so weak. We identified that,
we identified his gait the way he walked right, and
they tried to tell us that's because he broke his foot.
Remember that the book is based on interviews with more
than two hundred people, mostly Democrat insiders, with knowledge of
the events that unfolded during the final two years of
Biden's presidency. Almost all of the interviews took place after
the twenty twenty four election. So two hundred people now
doing interviews, which tells you what they knew, which kind
of lays bare the lie that you know two people
can keep a secret as long as one of them
is dead. People can keep secrets if they are invested
in the secret getting kept. Internal discussions. By the way,
this is from Axios's Alex Thompson writing this story. It's
adapted from the forthcoming book Original Sin, President Biden's decline,
it's cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again.
Internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair occurred,
but they determined they could not do so until after
the election. Biden's aides believed it was politically untenable. So
think about this. You have a man who is eighty
one years old and is in need of or would
benefit from the use of a wheelchair, and the people
around him, the people that supposedly love him, work for him,
admire him, believe in what he's doing. Right, these are
the people that ostensibly care the most about Joe Biden,
the individual, the man, and they said, don't let him
use the wheelchair. We're not going to give that man
a wheelchair that we think he needs because it would
jeopardize our power. So sorry, Joe. We'll give you some sneakers,
all right. We'll give you some grippy sneakers. Will surround
you with staffers as you walk across the lawn, so
this way, if you start to fall, they'll catch you,
and they'll they'll block the camera view of you walking
oddly across the lawn. Right, We'll do all of this
other stuff, but we're not going to give you the
thing that you need, which is the wheelchair. Biden aids
thought it would be politically untenable. Now. His physician, a
fellow by the name of Kevin O'Connor, had long privately
expressed concern about the toll that the presidency was taking
on Joe Biden's health. The doctor often argued with Biden's
political officials to get more rest time into the president's schedule.
More naps. I'm as doctor, I'm prescribing more naps. O'Connor
sometimes equipped that Biden's staff members were trying to kill
him while he was trying to keep it, while he
the doctor, was trying to keep Joe alive. Biden's team
had increasing fears of a fall, particularly after he tripped
over that sandbag at the Air Force Academy in June
twenty twenty three. Remember that, and remember they blamed whoever
put the sandbag there. Aides then began taking many more
precautions to avoid a repeat. They tried to figure out
shorter walking paths. They began insisting on handrails for steps
up to the stage at his appearances. They had him
wear sneakers more often. They changed his visual briefings before
events to ensure he knew every step he was expected
to take, and guided him more carefully through the movements.
We saw all of this, right they had. They had
stuff marked out on the floor for him, right they
And that happens in the theater. They do like blocking.
They put tape, you know, markers that put your mark
on the ground so you know where to go. They would,
but that's why you know, at the end, he was
always like looking for somebody to guide him away, because
that's what they were doing. They told him, we'll come
get you. We're gonna we'll walk you off the stage,
We'll walk you here, we'll do this, And that's why
he would turn to look for somebody, who's my guy
that I'm supposed to latch onto. And then when we
noticed it, they gaslit us and they told us there's
nothing to it. No, no, Barack Obama's not guiding him
off the stage. He's just he's just you know, warm
embrace of a friend and whatever. Throughout twenty twenty four,
Biden aids told reporters that the president's halting walk was
partly the result of him fracturing his foot four years prior,
and that he refused to consistently wear his walking boot
during rehab. In short, they said Biden was being undone
by his own vigor. Bah It says he's too spry.
He's just too spry. Say that's why he's now looking
all frail. It's because he's too spry. But of course
that contradicted what the doctor had publicly reported at the time.
He only had to wear the walking boot for ten
weeks and that the injury quote healed as expected. I
mean according to the doctor, But what does he know.
He's no political aid. O'Connor said that he had that
Biden was suffering from significant spinal arthritis and that explained
the changes in Joe Biden's walk, his gait. If only
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one of their reporters who withheld the information until after
the election. Alex Thompson, writing in his book with Jake Tapper,
called original sin the thing that we all could see
with our own eyes was in fact true. Joe Biden
was old. Joe Biden was suffering from physical and cognitive decline.
According to the story which folks. This excerpt in Axios
focuses on his physical infirmities because that's what a lot
of media that was like the safe thing where they
could talk about his age, but it was about his
physical decline because they could see him walking and why
is he stumbling? Oh my gosh, he took another fall. Right.
They're still not leaning into the cognitive side of this
stuff yet. But according to the report, Biden, his family
and senior White House officials pushed forward with the president's
re election campaign, despite seeing signs of here it is
physical and mental decline over the course of his administration.
A Biden spokesperson Inrobates, who declined to be identified, said
in a statement to Axios, quote, Yes, there were physical
changes as he got older, but evidence of aging is
not evidence of mental incapacity. And so far we are
still waiting for someone, anyone, to point out where Joe
Biden had to make a presidential decision or make a
presidential address where he was enabled to do his job
because of mental decline. In fact, the evidence points to
the opposite. He was a very effective president. So no
one has present. The gas lighting continues. The gas lighting
will continue until everybody believes it or they think they're insane,
which is kind of what gaslighting is all about. You
don't have anybody, nobody has pointed out a presidential decision
or address where he was unable to do his job. Hey,
do you remember that time Joe Biden was replaced by
doctor Jilson, his wife at one of the cabinet meetings.
She ran the meeting or something. Remember that? Oh, how
about the time where he sat around the table and
they had to turn all of the placards with people's
names on them. They had to turn them all to face. Joe. Yeah,
because he was forgetting his own staffers and cabinet secretaries.
He didn't know the people's names around him. Remember that.
Andrew Powell at the Independent Journalism Review IJR dot com,
a top advisor, has said in an upcoming book that
former President Joe Biden ruined the campaign hopes of former
Vice President Kamala Harris by staying in the race too
long before bowing out. According to the Guardian, David Ploof,
who managed former President Barack Obama's winning two thousand and
eight presidential campaign and was a senior advisor in Obama's
White House, he was recruited to help with Harris's campaign
and her nightmare one hundred and seven days sprint against
Donald Trump. This is from the same book Original Sin.
They're blaming Biden. It's all Biden Proof, was reported as
saying while reflecting on Biden's decision to run for reelection
and then continue on for more than three weeks after
his debate against Trump went disastrously, while raising questions about
his mental acuity and age. Plof said quote, he totally
bleeped us. I love this idea that Kamala Harris would
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Joe Biden is still riding the bicycle? I don't know.
That's I don't know. I could well, I could see
either way on that. Like, on the one hand, God know,
he could fall and break a hip and that's it right.
But on the other hand, maybe they recommend that he
do it to you know, to keep in shape. You know,
you got to stay active and put some big training
wheels on the side of it so it doesn't tip over.
Maybe I don't know. I'm not trying to be mean.
I'm saying, like, if it's good if he enjoys bicycling
and you got some bike paths you can ride on.
Maybe he rides the bike on the beach at one
of his mansions. I don't know, so let me go.
I mentioned Jake Tapper, one of the authors of this book,
Original Sin, and two anecdotes from this book were provided
to The Guardian. They've got excerpts and this is from
Hang on a second, where am I pulling this from
Jim Garretty at National Review. He has these excerpts. First,
one senior aide who quit the White House because they
did not think Biden should run, admits to the authors
of the book, quote, we attempted to shield him from
his own staff. So many people didn't realize the extent
of the decline beginning in twenty twenty three. That's not physical, folks,
that's mental. You're shielding him from his own staff. And
what Garretty says is if you're afraid of the president's
staff interacting with him for fear that they will leak
that the president has declined so much that he can't
perform his duties, then he should not be president. Guys,
what are we doing here? Right? Like, oh, we got
to keep everybody away from him. Okay, well, then he
can't keep doing the job. If you're worried about somebody
leaking that he is, that he is in mental cognitive decline,
then that's the point where you exercise the twenty fifth
Amendment option. You know, the thing you guys were experts
on four years prior when Trump was the president and
you were saying that he needed to be removed for
twenty fifth Amendment purposes. I know you are aware this exists,
and yet here you are with your own guy displaying
the very kinds of behavior that you accuse Trump of displaying,
and your response is to not do the thing for
the country. Your response that you demanded Republicans do that
Trump's cabinet do you said they had to do that.
And when your guy is actually in that position of
cognitive decline, you just freeze out all of the people
around him, his secretaries. Why why would freeze Why would
he be freezing out the secretaries because they're the ones
who would exercise the twenty fifth Amendment right, so you
got to keep them in the dark, no wonder. Lloyd
Austin disappeared for a couple of weeks, not telling anybody
where he was. He probably thought, like, nobody really cares
what I'm doing anyway. I don't ever meet with the president,
and so I'm just going to go in for the surgery.
I'm going to go to the hospital for a couple
of weeks and now I'll be back. It's fine. It's
almost as if everybody around Joe Biden feared that his
mental declines effect on the election, but had no fear
for his mental decline's consequences for the country. Jim Garrity
is exactly right. So that's the first anecdote. Here's the
second from the Guardian newspaper quote. Since at least twenty
twenty two, Biden has been increasingly own to lose his
train of thought and struggle to remember the names of
top aids. His speeches can be incoherent and difficult to hear.
When he proved incapable of delivering a two minute video
address without stumbling, aids filmed him with two cameras so
the edit would be less obvious, like this is a
two shot. You set up two different cameras. I think
it was Actually I Love Lucy was the first television
program ever filmed with multiple cameras and so they could
do cut. They can do cut to camera one, cut
to camera two, cut the camera back to one, back
to two. Back then you had mission back in, not
mission control in the control room and a director saying,
you know, go to camera one, all right, back to two.
So both camera operators are always running, they're always filming,
and then the director makes the call on which shot
to use. Well, that's what they did for Joe Biden's
two minute speech. And this was known by the way.
We talked about this because Steven Miller at The Spectator
talked about it, who made repeated observations about how often
Joe Biden videos featured what's called jump cuts. A jump
cut is where there's obviously an edit point and then
like obviously because like maybe the president is kind of
looking off to the right, and then the next you know,
the next cut is him looking off to the left.
It's a jump cut. It's not a smooth transition, and
we could tell. And the reason why you do the
jump cuts is because he can't even get through a sentence.
They had to just keep having him restate, restate, restate,
until they got one they could use, and then they
would edit in each sentence, and then they try to
make it look intentional with the jump cuts, like it's edge,
but no, it's it's indicative of him not being able
to read through a two minute looking at the camera comment.
Yeah that everybody else it was all cheap fakes. Yeah,
here's Jake Tapper. This is a montage from our friend
over at Grabyan named Tom Elliott Grabyan Media. This is
the super cut Jake Tapper basically helping advance the conspiracy
by telling everybody who saw what was going on that
they didn't really see what they were going on.
Speaker 2: How do you think it makes little kids with stutters
feel when they see you make a comment like that.
It's very clearly a cognitive decline, That's what I'm referring to.
It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: You it's so amazing.
Speaker 2: It's so amazing to me that trying to figure out
an answer a cognitive decline in a Biden embraces his
stutter talking about it, while Trump mock said, exaggerates it.
The littles it. He's sharp physically, I mean mentally, Yeah,
I think the question is physically right right or so
right right? And the guy who's his chief opponent is
only three or four years younger than him. May be.
I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness, fitness,
ability to lead. Of those supporting Biden, you said, quote,
shame on all of you pretending everything is okay. You're
leading us in him into a disaster. Do you worry
that you damaged him at all? I don't doubt that
you got hugs.
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is in his interview with
Dean Phillips. Remember who was a Democrat trying to beat
Joe Biden in a primary, but then the Democrats closed
their primary.
Speaker 2: And handshakes behind closed doors today and maybe even publicly
some of them because they like you personally. But I've
heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from
your Democratic colleagues. I mean, just like, what is he thinking?
Exercise in narcissism, I mean false claims to the Wall
Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's
eighty one and his memory. You know, it doesn't seem great.
It's not horrible, but I don't understand the outage quote
behind closed doors Biden shows signs of slipmant quote. The
Wall Street Journal is owned by newscrep which is run
by the Murdocks. Beyond the headline, there is some critical
nuance here. The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans,
with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only one going on
the record. They do note in the article that most
of the criticism comes from Republicans. Have you heard any
concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about
seeming a little slower? Now the Russians are trying to
do to make us in the public not trust the
our election integrity. Joe Biden has dimension all this stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was Jake Tapper during the election cycle, denying
and attacking anybody who saw what we all could see.
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Another story just broke at Axios dot com. So I
guess this would be now it can be told Chapter
seven hundred and forty. Former President Joe Biden had to
be repeatedly reminded that the movie star he was speaking
with at a June twenty twenty four fundraiser was his
longtime friend George Clooney. That's in the new book from
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Now it can be told
Clooney and Biden had known each other for about two
decades before this high profile California fundraiser, but Biden's diminished
physical appearance was a quote unquote holy poop moment, except
he didn't say poop for Clooney. Clooney had not seen
Joe since twenty twenty two. This excerpt from the book
was published in The New Yorker. The book quotes an
aid telling Joe Biden when he saw Clooney and didn't
recognize him. The aide says, you know, George, George Clooney,
and then, oh, George has alone the author's right quote,
Clooney was shaken to his core. The President hadn't recognized him,
a man he had known for years. According to the book,
others at the fundraiser described Joe Biden as quote slow
and almost catatonic. It was to some of them terrifying
and as you heard in the clip that I played
from Grabian News, the super cut the montage of all
of the Jake Tapper denialisms, Jake Tapper was constantly pointing
out when The Wall Street Journal did its story which
was really the first big story that exposed the widespread
concerns of Joe Biden's declining mental and cognitive state. And
he kept pointing out that, oh, these are mostly Republican sources.
Those Republicans, they're just attacking him. He just just dismissed
all of this criticism, all of these observations because they
were Republican. And there's a word for that, partisanship. Right.
As a journalist, which Jake Tapper was a Democrat comms
guy before he landed at CNN, But in journalism, right,
you're supposed to you're supposed to try to understand and recognize,
identify the motivations for why people are talking with you
and giving you information. And yes, while one point would
be that Republicans are talking to the Wall Street Journal
for this article because they want Joe Biden to lose, however,
the inverse is also true, and you also have to
take that into account that Democrats are not wanting to
talk about it, They are not admitting what is obvious
because they too have a political stake in denying it.
And while Jake Tapper could easily identify any kind of
political motivation from the Republicans, he just couldn't He just
couldn't see any on the left. There's just nothing from
the Democrats. It's one of the things I've talked about
this in the past. When you go to journalism in school,
you have to pick one or the other. It's a
superpower that you get with your diploma, and you only
get to pick one, so you can identify the political
machinations of the Republicans or of the Democrats. You can't
see both. So it's unfortunate. I don't know why they
haven't figured out why did Grant have had a grant
like maybe just a little bit of each from each
party kind of thing. But no, that's the only explanation
I can come up with. And then of course they
had the debate, and then of course, three weeks later,
George Clooney writes his op ed and he said, it's
devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was
with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the
Joe big effing deal Biden of twenty ten. And people
saw Clooney's op ed at the time. We talked about
it at the time that he was the voice of
Barack Obama. George Clooney was writing what Barack could not,
because I don't think Joe and Jill, sorry doctor Jill,
I don't think they've ever gone swimming off of the
yacht owned by George Clooney in some you know, foreign paradise.
That was the Obamas. So the Obama's in the cloonies
are tight. And so when Clooney wrote the op ed,
there's no way that was not signed off on by
Barack Obama, and that's the way it was interpreted. And then,
of course, shortly thereafter, Joe Biden is cood. He says
he will be dropping out, and then of course he
is to blame for staying in the race, even though
everybody around him, right that concealed this decline. Nobody else
knew what was going on. Nobody else could see it.
Only we could see it from way down here in Charlotte.
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