The president, especially when he’s elderly, is one of the most closely monitored men in the world. It is possible for someone to be in an advanced stage of cancer without previous warnings, but that’s less likely to be the case with a former president.
Biden’s party and the party’s media had spent years lying about his mental capacities and are now busy lying that they knew about his mental state which gives them very little credibility when claiming that no one knew anything about Biden’s physical state.
There had been previous warnings that Biden had more serious physical problems than had been enumerated. The mental issues were easy enough to spot when he spoke or wandered off, but he was also clearly suffering from physical problems and one of the few actual revelations in Tapper’s recent book about the campaign lie was that his aides had discussed putting him in a wheelchair. It would seem excessive if this was, as his people claimed, a question of arthritis.
It now appears that Biden’s medical problems were much more advanced than we were told and that his presidency depended on a staff, party and media lying about them.
The focus of the Democrats (and some Republicans) is on the 2024 campaign.
But the 2024 campaign matters much less than the presidency. Politicians tell all sorts of lies when running for office. The truly serious matter are the lies that are told in the White House. And the much more disturbing question of who was actually running the country.
