The cover-up of former President Joe Biden‘s health, both his mental deterioration and his late-stage prostate cancer, is the biggest American political scandal in over a century. Everyone knew the 46th president was suffering from severe mental decline, going back to the 2019 and 2020 Democratic primary debates, and those of us who have spent time with elderly family members were aware of how quickly an individual in Biden’s position can descend into senility.
Half of the country told themselves whatever lies were necessary to vote for the man, and the Democratic propaganda machine, aided and abetted by a dutiful corporate press, went into overdrive in an attempt to delay the inevitable: the public being forced to admit that they were sold a lie.
Biden’s diagnosis of prostate cancer that has metastasized into the former president’s bones came as a shock, not because it is unusual for a man in his 80s to develop the disease, but because we all assumed the president of the United States is monitored more closely by physicians than perhaps any other human being on the planet.
The spin by Democrats and journalists surrounding this revelation has ranged from the ridiculous to the downright embarrassing. Not a soul should believe Biden’s doctors abdicated their duties and failed to test the president for the most common cancer among men. In fact, 70% to 80% of men aged 80 and older will have some form of prostate cancer. Biden almost certainly was diagnosed with cancer at the very least during his presidency, and likely before his victory in 2020.
“He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021,” said Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, oncologist and brother of former President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, to MSNBC.
The former president was neither mentally nor physically fit for office for the duration of his economically, socially, and diplomatically disastrous presidency. All of the political scandals in recent memory pale in comparison to the offenses against the nation perpetrated by Democrats and the journalists who so fervently support them.
For as much discussion as has surrounded Jan. 6, mostly on little-watched leftist cable news networks, is anyone still buying that a couple hundred people who took an unguided tour of the Capitol building can hold a candle to the best funded and organized propaganda machine in human history installing a dying man in the highest office in the land? The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal dominated headlines for years, but for all of his myriad flaws, former President Bill Clinton was not a threat to national security.
Watergate, the grandfather of them all, at least if you’re a journalist, was a drop in the bucket compared to what the country just went through. Breaking into an office to try to steal a few documents and wiretap a few phones is fairly mundane next to an unelected group of radicals using the incapacitated president to commandeer the immense power of the executive branch of the U.S. federal government.
CNN’s Jake Tapper, who hilariously hired one of the best crisis PR teams in the business, is in the midst of a foolhardy attempt to rewrite history while promoting his new book, but the jig is up. If Americans have any self-respect left, they will disregard the journalists who failed to spend the last five years consistently hounding the Biden team about the former president’s health. If voters believe they deserve better than the embarrassing lies they were force-fed for half a decade, they will make sure the party responsible is thoroughly punished at the ballot box.
DEMOCRATS MUST ADDRESS THEIR CREDIBILITY CANCER BEFORE IT SPREADS
Human beings are adaptable, and during the COVID-19 lockdowns, we learned the extent to which Americans will choose to normalize the vicious wrongdoing being perpetrated against them. For some people, it may be difficult to put the Biden health scandal into context, but this was it: the big lie. Not since 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke that rendered him incapacitated, leaving his wife, Edith Wilson, as the de facto commander in chief for two years, have the people been taken for fools to this degree.
Did only the Biden family know the extent of his health problems, or did White House staff know, too? How about the higher-ups at the Democratic National Committee and regime-friendly journalists? We may never answer those questions, but we can make sure that the people who did this to us never come within a country mile of the levers of power ever again.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.