Now it has come to light that White House aides concealed Biden’s apparent mental decline from his first day in office, shielding the aging president from the public and rearranging his schedule after a dismal performance. Explosive news has come to light. Thursday.
Biden has held the fewest large press conferences in modern history and has often made gaffes on stage during his speeches. His aides told the Journal that the White House’s cover-up reveals the extent to which it had previously covered up ambiguity.
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How the White House hid Biden’s apparent mental decline
Immediately after Biden took office amid the coronavirus pandemic, the president’s staff built a tight shell around him. The staffers immediately restricted their direct interactions with the president in January 2021, according to the report. Not only that, but when the president seemed tired or continued to stumble (both figuratively and literally) on the world stage, officials say they began adjusting their daily plans.
By spring 2021, meetings had been rescheduled to account for Biden’s “good days and bad days.” Meetings were often scheduled for later in the day, a fact that first became clear after Biden’s debate debacle against President-elect Donald Trump, when staffers at the time acknowledged that. The report found that Democratic candidates had difficulty operating outside of a six-hour window that closed around 4 p.m. each day. Officials were asked to keep their in-room meetings with the president short and to the point. Mr. Biden’s personal meetings with some of his Cabinet nominees, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, have diminished.Also read: Trump who? Lawmakers are calling Elon “President Musk,” and here’s why
Biden’s voice coach?
The White House also reportedly hired Hollywood mogul and campaign co-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg as a voice coach to improve Biden’s raspy, raspy tone. Other staffers removed negative coverage from Biden’s daily news cycle and misled public opinion about his performance, which reached a 70-year low in 2024.
The signs were always there during his tenure in the Oval Office. He frequently relied on notecards, was seen with large printed instructions, often confused the names and other facts of foreign dignitaries, and made gaffes by going off-script or ignoring the teleprompter. . Biden even forgot the year his son Beau Biden died of brain cancer.
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The magazine said campaign staffers were concerned that first lady Jill Biden would outperform the president even during the 2020 primary.
Press secretary Michael LaRosa told the magazine at the time that he received instructions from Anthony Bernal, a White House staffer and one of Gill’s closest confidants.
During her husband’s term in office, the first lady sometimes tried to stop her husband from acting alone for too long at press conferences, fearing he would be caught off guard with questions as the situation dragged on.
