The front page of Saturday’s New York Times featured a 2,700-word investigative report by Katie Rogers, Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman, and Carl Hulse, “How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President.” Better late than never?
The reporters made it quite clear the president’s inner circle was quite aware of his mental decline.
The president’s acknowledgment [“that he may not have made it through a second term”] has put a new spotlight on his family and inner circle, all of whom dismissed concerns from voters and Mr. Biden’s own party that he was too old for the job. And yet they recognized his physical frailty to a greater degree than they have publicly acknowledged. Then they cooperated, according to interviews with more than two dozen aides, allies, lawmakers and donors, to manage his decline.
The Times noted “the concerns over…
