Question: Would the White House have called videos of Joe Biden in a wheelchair “cheap fakes” and still claimed that the president could “run rings” around his aides?
Answer: Probably. And if the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive and physical decline had held up past the June 27 debate that Biden insisted on having, we might have found out. So reports Axios, which picks up the claim from one of the pioneering tomes in the Now It Can Be Told literary genre:
Joe Biden’s physical deterioration was so severe in 2023 and 2024 that advisers privately discussed the possibility he’d need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson write in their new book, “Original Sin,” out May 20.
Why it matters: The discussions reflected the extent of the president’s declining health — particularly the significant degeneration of his spine…
