Here, we are confronted by a never before seen conspiracy, where multiple members of his cabinet – if not every member of his cabinet – worked together to hide the truth from the American people for purely political purposes, and they are continuing to do so.
A grossly underappreciated aspect of the revelation that President Biden’s mental decline has been protected by a “conspiracy of silence,” to use New York Mag’s phrasing, is that members of his cabinet do not work for him. They are not party operatives on the campaign payroll or media apparatchiks working for a private company. Instead, they work for the American people and are paid by our tax dollars. As such, many, especially at the highest levels of the cabinet, have sworn an oath of office to uphold the Constitution. As Article VI of the Constitution proscribes, “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” This oath requires executive branch officers including the Vice President, Secretary of State, Treasury, Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, the Attorney General, and more to “faithfully execute” their office “to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God.” Nowhere in this oath are Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Attorney General Merrick Garland, or any of the others required to swear allegiance to the President, protecting him at all costs. Their duty is the country and the American people first and foremost. In other words, their loyalty should be to me and you, not President Biden. Ironically enough, we heard quite a bit about this dichotomy when Donald J. Trump was President. Back then, the media was extremely concerned that President Trump demanded personal loyalty, and wanted cabinet members and other executive officers to put him above the country. As Politico described it in 2018, “All leaders want loyalty. All politicians. All presidents. But in the 241-year history of the United States of America, there’s never been a commander in chief who has thought about loyalty and attempted to use it and enforce it quite like Trump…It is possible to see Trump’s fixation on loyalty, the pledging of it, the proof of it, the failure to receive it or provide it, as the animating force behind so many of the defining events of his first year in office.”
At the time, Politico concluded, “Taken as a whole, this mixture of traits makes Trump’s unprecedented presidency unprecedented in this respect as well, presidential historians told me. Presidents all require loyalty—up to a point. And they have to show loyalty—except when they shouldn’t. Too much loyalty can be just as detrimental to a president and his administration as too little. No president, in the historians’ estimation, has ever built an administration on a scaffolding that uses this quality almost to the exclusion of others, or has so deliberately announced that other virtues of management—the need for unvarnished counsel, even principled defiance—will be punished.” To my knowledge, not a single mainstream media outlet has mentioned these concerns or anything even close when it comes to President Biden, pretending as usual that he and his cabinet have put the country first. His debate performance, however, laid bare that key members of his administration have been protecting him and hiding the truth about his rapidly deteriorating mental state, and have been doing so for years in some cases. Of particular interest in this newly revealed conspiracy are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, and the Attorney General, all of whom have had ample opportunity to directly observe the President and alert the American people that he is no longer able to the job, much less for another four years, but chose not to. Attorney General Garland, for example, received a report from a Special Counsel Robert Hur in February, a prosecutor he personally appointed, that described the President as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” This description was based on in-depth interviews with President Biden, wherein he couldn’t remember basic facts about his own life. “He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’).” His “memory [also] appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.” The gaps in his memory extended to his personal life. “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” and generally speaking, he displayed “diminished faculties.”
Rather incredibly, the picture painted in the report was even worse once the transcript of the interview was released the following month. In addition to his lapses in memory, the President meandered throughout, changing topics, leaving thoughts unfinished, and struggling for words. He joked about the FBI finding “risqué” pictures of his wife, “You left everything in place,” he said about the search of his home, “I just hope you didn’t find any risqué pictures of my wife in a bathing suit. Which you probably did. She’s beautiful.” He claimed he was an excellent archer of all things, having hit a target at hundreds of yards in Mongolia in 2011. “I’m not a bad archer,” he boasted, immediately after calling the native Mongolian archers “gorillas.” “But…I hit the goddamn target,” he added, despite that there was no target to be hit and the entire sequence is on video from the time. He babbled about how he “didn’t take law school very seriously.” “We had a really difficult professor,” President Biden reminisced. “He called on me to—you know how they do in law school, discuss a case, you know, in your first torts class. And I had never read the case, and I stood up and I spoke for 10 minutes. The whole class stood up, started clapping.” Even so, perhaps nothing was stranger than his description of the incident he claimed led him into politics after law school, where he described a construction worker who apparently seared his penis on the job. “This poor kid is down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside,” the President told the Special Counsel. “And he was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he—a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old.” My personal favorite, however, was when President Biden got lost in a tangent about the launch control feature on a modern car, which revs the engine for optimal power before engaging the transmission, enabling mere mortals to achieve drag racing speeds. “You know, think about this. You had one of those big four by fours, the — I think it’s a Ford Bronco, whatever it is. Zero to sixty in four six.” “That’s fast,” the Special Counsel noted. “Yeah. By the way, you know how it works?” The President asked, laughing. “Sir, I’d love — I would love to hear much more about this, but I do have a few more questions to get through,” Mr. Hur tried to keep him on track. “You can take 30 seconds, but you put your foot on the brake, you hit, you hit a button that’s in the — and it says ‘launch.’ You step your foot on the accelerator all the way down…” “Woah,” the Special Counsel agreed. “…until it gets to about six, seven grand,” President Biden continued. “Then all of a sudden, it will say ‘launch.’ All you do is take your foot off the brake,” he joked, before he “Makes [a] car sound.”
What did Attorney General Garland do when he received this report and the actual transcript? Did he hold a press conference to share his own personal experiences with a clearly diminished President? After all, this is a man whom none other than President Biden himself insisted, “Your loyalty is not to me. You won’t work for me. You are not the president or the vice president’s lawyer.” Rather than act on his knowledge, he promptly chose to block the release of the actual audio, under a bizarre executive privilege claim that clearly doesn’t apply in this case given privilege protects the President’s conversations with his advisors, not from himself during an official investigation, and continued pretending nothing at all was wrong. The President, in his view, was a dynamo behind closed doors. In April, he told a House appropriations subcommittee, “The president has no impairment. I have watched him expertly guide meetings of staff and of cabinet members on issues of foreign affairs and military strategy and policy,” adding that he’s been decisive in making decisions to protect the country. “I have complete confidence in the president,” he insisted – while refusing to share his opinion on the report of his own Special Counsel. Last month, he was back before another House committee insisting that he does his job free from political considerations of any kind, asserting that the Justice Department is independent of politics. “I will not be intimidated. And the Justice Department will not be intimidated…We will continue to do our jobs free from political influence. And we will not back down from defending democracy,” he claimed. Taken together, we are left with two choices I’ve opined on earlier: Either Attorney General Garland is too stupid to perform his job, unable to ascertain anything meaningful about his boss’ mental state even after he was informed of its deterioration by his own Justice Department, or he is a liar, using his office to advance political goals, namely keeping President Biden and himself in power. He is clearly unfit to serve the country any longer whatever option you choose.
Similarly, though less publicly, Secretary of State Blinken also appears to have protected President Biden at the expense of the country he served. The Wall Street Journal has been covering the how foreign leaders have been reacting to the President’s decline. Last week, they noted that, “European officials had already been expressing worries in private about Biden’s focus and stamina before Thursday’s debate, with some senior diplomats saying they had tracked a noticeable deterioration in the president’s faculties in meetings since last summer. There were real doubts about how Biden could successfully manage a second term, but one senior European diplomat said U.S. administration officials in private discussions denied there was any problem….Diplomats described Biden’s performance at the Group of Seven summit in Italy in mid-June as mixed, with Biden appearing physically frailer than in the past but alert in many of the most important discussions.” The Journal more recently reported on an incident in Germany as far back as 2022, where Secretary Blinken covered for the President at an event hosted by Chancellor Olaf Scholz when his boss didn’t show up. “German officials, aware of Biden’s fatigue at night, sought to accommodate the president by planning a June 2022 event with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the early evening. The informal event, a soiree at the Alpine resort Schloss Elmau during the Group of Seven summit, was arranged as a confidential meeting on Ukraine in a relaxed setting. Biden didn’t show, surprising the chancellor and his aides, officials said. Instead, Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived and announced that Biden had to go to bed, according to two people who were there.” The combination of the two stories – and others – makes it almost impossible to believe that the Secretary of State was unaware of the President’s condition, or at the very least unaware how foreign leaders thought about this condition, but, the same as his counterpart in the Justice Department, he has done and said nothing about it. Even after the debate, he was busy defending the President. “If you look at surveys around the world, for what they’re worth, you see it again and again and again, that confidence in American leadership has gone up dramatically over the last 3-1/2 years,” he said. “That doesn’t just happen. … It’s the product of policies that we pursue, it’s the product of our engagement. And they see President Biden having led the way in all of those different areas, and in ways that are bringing people together and focused in the same way on the challenges that we have before us and that are common to so many other countries.” Once again, is he stupid or just plain lying?
Vice President Kamala Harris is another high ranking, oath taking official who bizarrely and rather facetiously defended the President after his debate performance. After admitting, “It was a slow start. That’s obvious to everyone. I’m not going to debate that point. I’m talking about the choice for November. I’m talking about one of the most important elections in our collective lifetime,” she went on to insist, “I see Joe Biden when the cameras are on and when the cameras are off,” Harris said. “I see him in the Oval Office negotiating bipartisan deals. I see him in the Situation Room keeping our country safe. On the world stage, meeting with world leaders who often ask for his advice.” At the risk of repeating myself, is she stupid or just plain lying? The only answer, in my opinion at least, is for the House to impeach them all and let the Senate sort it. As I’ve been saying for some time, Republicans in Congress need to start getting much more creative about how they approach the obvious malfeasance, lies, and deceit coming from the Biden Administration. Here, we are confronted by a never before seen conspiracy, where multiple members of his cabinet – if not every member of his cabinet – worked together to hide the truth from the American people for purely political purposes, and they are continuing to do so. The 25th Amendment, which strangely has not been discussed much at all, exists for this purpose and the cabinet is empowered to enact it. This is a pretty clear cut instance of dereliction of duty, and if Republicans are smart, which sadly most aren’t, they would make them all pay for it. Of course, the Senate is not likely to remove them from office, but the mere spectacle of them all, under oath, forced to explain what they knew and when they knew it, what other stories they were told, who else beyond foreign leaders expressed concerns, and why they did nothing about it has real probative value. After all, if the election is as important as they all say it is, how can we elect a man who clearly isn’t going to make it another four years and shouldn’t even be holding the office right now?
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