In the half-century since Watergate, political scandals have been given the suffix “gate” to suggest importance, real or ludicrous. Think “Irangate,” “Bridgegate,” or “Pizzagate.”
But the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s physical and mental collapse by White House officials and lickspittles in left-liberal news media won’t fit. His sleepwalking presidency, imploding brain function, mumbling rhetoric, stumbling gait, and catastrophically dwindling health, plus the conspiracy to conceal them, cannot be covered by one little tag.
What we’ve witnessed in the five years since the 2020 Democratic primary, when the party establishment suddenly abandoned competition and handed the nomination to the empty old suit that was Biden, is an anti-democratic fraud perpetrated against the nation.
Without seeing precisely what it was, the public could tell something had gone deeply wrong under Biden. We were governed not by an elected centrist leader but by a faceless corpus of leftwingers and Obama apparatchiks. That fraud would have continued under former Vice President Kamala Harris, so voters brought back President Donald Trump to end it.
With revelations about Biden’s incapacities cascading into the open, it is very late but not too late for a once complicit news media to get to the bottom of what was really going on and hold officials and culpable journalists to account.
Democrats want to move on and avoid a postmortem, but should not be allowed to do so. Democratic operative David Axelrod, who ironically was one of the first in his party to raise concerns about Biden (although only as late as 2022), now says the former president’s cancer should silence discussion about his withered abilities while in the Oval Office. Axelrod said such matters “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling with this.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) sneered, “It seems to me entirely inappropriate that at this moment when President Biden is dealing with a serious and aggressive form of cancer, there are Republicans who are peddling conspiracy theories and want us to look backward at a time when they are actually taking healthcare away from the American people.”
This is self-interested and defensive casuistry. Looking backward and uncovering what was assiduously covered up is precisely what a curious and functioning news media worthy of public respect should be doing. The Biden cancer revelation and the probability that it was undiscovered since before he was sworn into office in 2021 make a thorough investigation an urgent priority. Voter trust in the federal government depends upon it. Now is not the time to move on and avoid casting a backward glance.
We are not by any means at a late stage in unravelling and understanding the cover-up. We are at an early stage. If this were Watergate, we’d be only at the point where a link was first found between the president and the burglars. Still to come are congressional hearings, prosecutions, and all the other consequences ground out by a deliberate and careful exposure and examination of the facts.
Democrats want voters to believe that a few self-admiring and deceptive finger-pointing journalist books, some by people who participated in the cover-up, should end speculation and investigation. That’s because Democrats have so much to hide. Just as when they defended former President Bill Clinton, they want to jump from rejecting questions as inappropriate to dismissing revelations as old news. They want no intervening period of serious truth-telling.
Whereas Watergate was about Nixon’s abuse and excessive use of power, the Biden scandal is about how little power the president exercised or was capable of exercising, and how much government was really run by those around him whom no one elected.
The hollow sham of the Biden presidency, with decisions bearing only the president’s autopen signature rather than his input, has been well captured by Nathan Pinkoski, a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, in an article in Compact magazine titled “The Biden Administration Did Not Take Place.”
DEMOCRATS MUST ADDRESS THEIR CREDIBILITY CANCER
Pinkoski writes, “Joe Biden was not actually in charge of his own administration, which was uniquely characterized by the absence of the president. This isn’t to say that nothing happened in the White House, but that what took place in the White House was not actually a presidential administration as it is traditionally understood … Biden’s was a virtual administration, a simulacrum of a functioning progressive presidency.”
Now that the Democrats’ cover-up has been exposed, we need to know what major decisions and policy steps were taken without Biden understanding them. The irony of the Biden presidency, and the questions we need answered are, “What didn’t the president know, and when didn’t he know it?”