Nigel Jones

The Biden elephant in the room

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Let us face an unpleasant fact that many seem curiously reluctant to report or discuss. President Joe Biden appears to be suffering from severe and worsening cognitive decline which often makes his public appearances an embarrassing debacle. 

As Americans cast their votes in the midterm elections which may well see Biden’s Democrats lose their slim majorities in one or both houses of Congress, the mental state of the leader of the free world should be of pressing concern to everyone on the planet. But we hear very little about it. Much of the US media made a tacit agreement that even mentioning the subject was an offence against good taste. 

It is not as if evidence of the President’s decay is not abundant and out there for those who care to look. Even before he was elected in 2020 his staff hid him away in his Delaware home and kept him off the campaign trail, using Covid as a convenient excuse for his hermit status.

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