🧵 There is zero excuse for any journalist to pretend they only just realized Joe Biden was cognitively impaired.
At the @nypost we have been chronicling Joe Biden’s cognitive malfunction from the start:
1. March 2020
He mistook his wife for his sister.
“They switched on me,” he tried to explain…
The truth is that anyone who has seen Biden up close knows he has some sort of cognitive impairment. He often seems bewildered, can’t remember what state he is in, if he’s running for the Senate or the presidency or even whether it’s Super Tuesday or “Super Thursday.”
On Monday, in Texas, he forgot the words of the Declaration of Independence mid-sentence, substituting “the thing” for God.
Everyone has memory lapses, but the problem for Biden is that his are all too frequent and bizarre, and the attempt to explain them away as a function of his childhood stutter are only a temporary diversion.
These are not just the tall tales and malapropisms that long have been part of the Biden persona. It’s something new.
nypost.com/2020/03/04/dem…
2. May 2020:
Joe Biden’s disastrous interview with black radio host Charlamagne Tha God on Friday encapsulates everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party and its presidential hopeful.
“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, you ain’t black,” the former vice president blurted out at the end of the interview
Biden’s irritation had been building since the opening question about “your cognitive health. I don’t think everything’s working upstairs.”
The 17-minute interview descended into a series of shouted monologues from Biden, complete with “Come on, man” and “get a life” outbursts…
As we have seen with his “Hey, fat” and “lying dog-faced pony soldier” outbursts on the campaign trail, Biden is quick to anger and embellishes his achievements when challenged.
Biden’s internal filter has always been faulty, but lately it has deserted him entirely…
Nursing Biden over the finish line looks increasingly precarious for the Dems.
nypost.com/2020/05/24/a-d…
3. August 2020
He might be riding high in the polls, but Joe Biden’s mental acuity increasingly is an issue in the election campaign, and growling at reporters who ask about it is no way to alleviate voter concerns.
Asked during an event with the National Associations of Black and Hispanic Journalists if he had “taken a cognitive test,” Biden snapped.
“No, I haven’t taken a test! Why the hell would I take a test? C’mon, man!”
Frowning and irritated, he paused before ripping into the reporter, Errol Barnett of CBS News.
“That’s like saying you, before you got on this program, if you take a test where you’re taking cocaine or not, what do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?” said Biden
nypost.com/2020/08/05/bid…
4. August 2020
Despite the fact that he would be 82 years old at the start of his second term, Joe Biden on Sunday declared that he would “absolutely” serve a full eight years if elected president in November.
If you remember, back in May, he answered concerns about his declining cognitive function by saying, “I will be a transition candidate.”
But in his first prime-time interview since April, on ABC’s “World News Tonight,” Biden emphatically denied he meant he would serve only one term.
“No. It doesn’t mean that.”
Then he laughed off a question about his mental fitness.
“Watch me.”
Trouble is, we’ve been trying to watch Biden all year. We don’t ever get to see him unedited or without a teleprompter, without his wife or some helper at his side.
nypost.com/2020/08/23/joe…
5. October 2020
Take the Democrats’ latest attack on the president [Trump], that his brain is addled from coronavirus treatments. That’s a rich projection from a party whose candidate is famously cognitively impaired.
6. November 2020:
After Biden shouted his way through a short teleprompter speech, Obama came back onstage, perhaps to escort him off, because Biden did not seem to know where he was.
Obama mimed an elbow pump with his former VP to signal they should leave the stage and then quietly whispered to him, after which it dawned on Biden he’d forgotten his mask, not for the first time. When your entire campaign is about mask-shaming Trump supporters, it’s not a forgivable lapse.
7. November 2020
A President Biden in cognitive decline will sooner or later be replaced by his unpopular, untested vice president, Kamala Harris.
nypost.com/2020/11/04/bid…
8. March 2021
The president already is a walking, talking parody of himself, with embarrassing gaffes and senior moments piling up, despite the best efforts of his handlers to keep him out of sight.
Now that he is president, Biden’s befuddlement and the opaque nature of White House decision-making is making voters nervous. Readers are writing in to ask who the hell is running the joint…
America is waking up to what anyone paying attention during the election campaign knew was Biden’s biggest problem, the taboo topic of his cognitive fade-outs.
More than six weeks since his inauguration, Biden has not held a press conference, or the customary first-year address to a joint session of Congress, and a Rasmussen poll this week shows that more than half of voters are worried about his ability to do the job…
Whatever his handlers are hiding, even his trusty teleprompter can’t fill in the gaps.
At the podium this week to announce two new women generals, Biden forgot the name of his secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, as well as the name of the building where Austin works — the Pentagon.
nypost.com/2021/03/10/is-…
9. August 2021
But Biden isn’t getting any younger. When he showed up to work for the first time this week, after lunch Tuesday, he was filmed wandering across the White House lawn in search of the entrance to his office.
There may be an explanation for the odd behavior, but the point is that Biden often seems to be off with the pixies.
The idea that in three years, at age 81, he would contest another election is fanciful.
He is not young for his age, and he started his presidency already three months older than Ronald Reagan was at the end of his two terms.
nypost.com/2021/08/11/dem…
10. November 2021
… Where is his cognitive test? That’s the question increasingly on American minds. It’s clear, from his often bizarre or befuddled behavior, that something is not quite right with the president, which is why 59 percent of voters want him to take a cognitive test and release the results, according to a new McLaughlin & Associates survey.
But the six-page letter released by the White House Friday night, revealing the results of his first official physical, omitted any reference to Biden’s cognitive faculties.
I could go on…nypost.com/2021/11/21/whi…
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