{"id":895,"date":"2024-07-01T06:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=895"},"modified":"2024-07-01T06:45:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T06:45:34","slug":"disturbing-new-details-emerge-about-joe-bidens-mental-state-and-the-steps-staffers-take-to-shield-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing new details emerge about Joe Biden\u2019s mental state – and the steps staffers take to shield him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More questions about President Biden\u2019s cognitive state are emerging as a new poll showed a jaw-dropping 72% of registered voters do not believe he is mentally fit for the job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While many Democrats were left flabbergasted and sent into a tailspin by Biden\u2019s debate debacle last week, the 81-year-old president\u2019s cognitive slips have been nothing new to his inner circle.<\/p>\n

White House aides have been meticulously working behind the scenes throughout his presidency to minimize his exposure to situations where his cognitive slip-ups could flare up in public and to adapt the day-to-day of the presidency to the needs of an octogenarian.<\/p>\n

The commander-in-chief is seen as prone to absent-minded gaffes and fatigue outside of six hours a day \u2014 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. \u2014 and while traveling abroad, Axios said in a new report.<\/p>\n

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Sky News host Paul Murray says it is extraordinary to see the left-wing media finally change its tune on US President Joe Biden following his disastrous CNN debate.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From shorter stairs when boarding Air Force One to guiding him on jaunts over concerns about his gait and proclivity for appearing lost, his team has reportedly been forced to step up its efforts over time to shield him more and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know many of these people and how the White House operates,\u201d said Chandler West, the White House\u2019s former deputy director of photography under Biden, in an Instagram story after the debate, Axios reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will say he has a \u2018cold\u2019 or just experienced a \u2018bad night,\u2019 but for weeks and months, in private, they have all said what we saw last night \u2014 Joe is not as strong as he was just a couple of years ago,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe debate was not the first bad day, and it\u2019s not gonna be the last,\u201d said the ex-administration staffer, who had a first-hand seat to the president\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n

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As the race to the White House heats up, stream comprehensive coverage of the US Election with your\u00a0SkyNews.com.au Streaming Subscription<\/a>. Don\u2019t miss the CNN Presidential Debate Simulcast live on 28 June at 11am AEST. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s time for Joe to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem is, \u201cA true succession plan does not exist,\u201d a senior Dem campaign adviser admitted to CNN. \u201cThat\u2019s what makes all of this not just heartbreaking but very problematic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to his mental issues, the elderly president reportedly often wears orthopedic shoes and has undergone physical therapy to help combat stiffness, the White House physician previously disclosed.<\/p>\n

After his hard fall during last year\u2019s Air Force Academy commencement caused by him tripping over a sandbag onstage, aides have been careful to avert any repeats.<\/p>\n

Post-debate footage showed the president being helped off stage slowly by his wife after the 90-minute bout against former President Donald Trump, 78.<\/p>\n

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More questions\u00a0around President Joe Biden\u2019s cognitive state are emerging as a new poll showed a jaw-dropping 72 per cent of registered voters do not believe he is mentally fit for the job. Picture: Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A former White House staffer who was tasked with helping to tend to the president\u2019s accommodations in the executive mansion told Axios that senior officials often \u201cwouldn\u2019t let us do anything for them,\u201d suggesting it is to keep Biden\u2019s issues on the down-low.<\/p>\n

Press access in Biden\u2019s White House has also been remarkably limited.<\/p>\n

Three and a half years into his presidency, Biden has held the fewest solo press conferences of any president since at least the late 1980s \u2014 despite several raging wars, a migrant border crisis and economic upheaval, according to data from the American Presidency Project.<\/p>\n

Moreover, he rarely does sit-down interviews with news outlets. One rare interview he gave to Time Magazine that was published earlier this month featured him conflating Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as making a series of other factual blunders.<\/p>\n

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Mentioned it in my story yesterday but here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a clearer video of Jill helping Biden navigate the stairs after the debate.\u00a0https:\/\/t.co\/pkxAn1s3y4<\/a>\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/BNYExGWrts<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp)\u00a0June 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI have been very critical of the campaign strategy and the White House and their decision to sort of bubble-wrap him in the last year \u2014 you can\u2019t run for president by duck and cover,\u201d a former spokesman for the first lady, Michael LaRosa recently vented on Fox News\u2019 \u201cMedia Buzz.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several reporters have alleged that Biden campaign officials have sought to dissuade them from talking with rally attendees who were questioning the wisdom of having him as nominee.<\/p>\n

At times, Biden has quipped about his handlers demanding that he limit his own question-and-answer sessions during press sprays. In September, an official was heard telling the press that the conference was over \u2014 while Biden was rambling on. Staffers appeared to turn on music to signal the end as well.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes, First Lady Jill Biden has reportedly lashed out at aides who failed to cut short pressers where Biden was making gaffes.<\/p>\n

Flashback: WH bristles over \u2018cheap fakes\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Liberal MP Keith Pitt has expressed concerns over US President Joe Biden being the leader of the free world following his trainwreck of a performance at the presidential debate.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Clips of Biden rambling in hard-to-follow tangents, making glaring verbal mishaps, appearing to struggle on his way off stage and just appearing to wander around generally have swirled online.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the White House press team launched a full-throated effort to push back against many of those clips and bashed The Post\u2019s reporting on several of them.<\/p>\n

Underpinning the White House\u2019s grievances were concerns that the footage was heavily edited and therefore lacked complete context, thereby painting an unfair picture of him as infirm.<\/p>\n

They called those clips \u201ccheap fakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Journalist and Commentator Brad Polumbo says there is nothing shameful about old age regarding US President Joe Biden\u2019s debate debacle but the problem comes from \u201cclinging on to power\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The motivation was obvious. The White House was endeavoring to disabuse the pesky narrative about Biden\u2019s age that had long haunted his presidency.<\/p>\n

Biden put on an energetic performance during his State of the Union address (when he stood behind a teleprompter) in March that eased many concerns. The goal was to have him do it again.<\/p>\n

\u2018Watch Me\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday, Biden was on the debate stage unfiltered before an estimated 51 million Americans to see.<\/p>\n

Biden had long sought to prove his naysayers on age wrong with the simple retort: \u201cWatch me.\u201d Media pundits and Democrats did just that. And it left them deeply rattled and panicked.<\/p>\n

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On tonight\u2019s episode of Paul Murray Our Town, Sky News host Paul Murray discusses Queensland, Joe Biden\u2019s debate performance, Labor senator crossing the floor for the Greens, and more.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The president was onstage with a raspy voice, which he later attributed that to a cold, and struggled to give coherent answers at times while staring blankly into the cameras at others.<\/p>\n

CNN liberal analyst Van Jones appeared to be on the verge of tears afterward. He was not alone.<\/p>\n

Others felt they had been fooled by the White House and Biden\u2019s allies about the exact state of the president\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is no longer about Joe Biden\u2019s family or his emotions,\u201d an adviser in touch with the West Wing fumed to Axios. \u201cThis is about our country. It\u2019s an utter f\u2013king disaster that has to be addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the Albanese government is \u201cdoing something\u201d about the cost-of-living crisis Australians are facing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A Democrat insider told Page Six that Biden\u2019s Hamptons fundraiser Saturday did little to ease concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like he was putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound,\u201d the Democrat veteran said. \u201cHe did not have a \u2018bad\u2019 debate, he was visibly unwell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unease about his age had long lingered over his presidency, but now efforts to obscure it fell apart on national television.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats told The Post they believed Biden\u2019s inner circle has fallen prey to a certain level of \u201cdelusion\u201d on Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe level of delusion is wild,\u201d that Democrat said. \u201cI don\u2019t know the team around him is seeing what everyone else saw. And they need to focus on getting back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even beyond the US, some allies who had been rooting for Biden to prevail in the Nov. 5 presidential election seemed concerned. But fears about his mental condition had loomed overseas as well even before the debate.<\/p>\n

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Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume has slammed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying Senator Fatima Payman directly \u201cdefying him\u201d is the \u201csign of a weak prime minister\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cHe ended the meeting with the same anecdote he started it with,\u201d a source familiar told the Financial Times about a recent meeting Biden had with an EU leader, noting that he seemed sharp at first.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s heart sank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s team had been the one that pitched the debate to Trump in the first place, who promptly accepted it under terms that some of his allies felt were less than favorable, explaining later that he figured the offer came as a ploy to entice him to reject it.<\/p>\n

Clean-up duty<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top Dems such as National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison as well as former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have all sought to nudge the party to calm down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s unhelpful, and I think it\u2019s unnecessary,\u201d California Gov. Gavin Newsom vented after the debate to MSNBC regarding trepidations about keeping Biden at the top of the party\u2019s ticket.<\/p>\n

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Sky News host Rowan Dean has called out the ABC\u2019s Sarah Ferguson for trying to turn an interview about Julian Assange into the \u201cusual rubbish\u201d about Donald Trump and Joe Biden.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), 83, did Sunday news interviews seeking to thaw out concerns over Biden.<\/p>\n

LaRosa mused on X,\u201dIs this a smart surrogate strategy? Sending an 83-year-old out on the cable shows today to make the case for the 81-year-old candidate?\u201d<\/p>\n

Clyburn conceded that Biden\u2019s debate appearance \u201cwas a bad performance\u201d but chalked it up in part to excessive preparation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been a part of debate preparation before, and I know when I see what I call preparation overload,\u201d Clyburn told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelosi sought to defend Biden by hitting at Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are healthcare professionals who think that Trump has dementia,\u201d Pelosi contended on \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201cHis thoughts do not go together. Not only that \u2014 he just lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden himself acknowledged that he had a rough go of things Thursday night while at a rally in Raleigh, NC, the next day, and privately felt humiliated as well as \u201cdevoid of confidence,\u201d NBC reported.<\/p>\n

Bleak polling<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Initial polling in the wake of the debate suggests that faith in Biden has been shaken.<\/p>\n

A staggering 72% of respondents in a CBS News\/YouGov poll said they don\u2019t think Biden possesses the \u201cmental and cognitive health necessary to serve as president.\u201d It was 41% among Democrats.<\/p>\n

But as the Biden campaign noted in a recent fundraising note, enthusiasm for an alternative candidate isn\u2019t particularly strong, either.<\/p>\n

Deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty cited a survey from Data for Progress that showed Trump beating all the top Democrats but stressed its finding that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris performed the strongest.<\/p>\n

Biden is expected to be crowned the Democrats\u2019 presidential standard bearer within the coming weeks virtually ahead of the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n

His team insists that he will still go through with a planned debate against Trump in September.<\/p>\n

The White House did not respond to a Post request for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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