Just eight months into his first term.
Obviously the cover up began before then -- with the entire scripted "Basement Biden" strategy.
I know you're a slack-jawed.
Not because you're surprised, just because you're all yokels and walk around gawping at everything, motor cars and aer-o-planes and digital watches.
From Ed Morrissey, quothing the WSJ.
The Wall Street Journal today reports on the start date of the cover-up -- October 2021. The setting: Biden's infrastructure bill. The stakes: His main legislative agenda. Biden's focus ... almost entirely absent:
President Biden had just finished trying to persuade a group of congressional Democrats to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill when Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, took the microphone.In 30 minutes of remarks on Capitol Hill, Biden had spoken disjointedly and failed to make a concrete ask of lawmakers, according to Democrats in the room. After he left, a visibly frustrated Pelosi told the group she would articulate what Biden had been trying to say, one lawmaker said.
"It was the first time I remember people pretty jarred by what they had seen," recalled Rep. Dean Phillips (D., Minn.), who would go on to mount an unsuccessful primary challenge against the president.
That was October 2021. That month was the last time Biden met with the House Democratic caucus on the Hill regarding legislation.
Emphasis mine. And there's a good reason Pelosi didn't invite Biden to come back, too.
Little flashback from July 8: Biden's WH physician, who of course repeatedly lied about Biden being "fit for duty" and who studiously avoided administering a cognitive function test -- or administered one, then lied about having done so -- was a partner in the Biden Crime Family, benefiting from Middle Class Joe's ability to shape policy for personal enrichment.
President Joe Biden is leaning on the credibility of White House physician Kevin O'Connor's optimistic assessment of his health, but that physician is a family intimate and one-time business associate of the president's brother.
When Biden's brother Jim was exploring a business venture aimed at securing Veterans Affairs contracts in 2017, O'Connor introduced him to a military-focused medical team and accompanied him to a meeting with a hospital president.
"You and your team clearly share our vision," O'Connor wrote to the hospital president following the business meeting.
The family ties transcend business. In a 2018 deposition, the president's sister-in-law, Sara Biden, described O'Connor as a "friend" who frequently doled out medical advice to her family.
When Joe Biden had left the vice presidency the previous year, O'Connor -- his government-assigned military doctor -- emailed more than a dozen members of the Biden clan, saying, "You've all been a really important part of my life."
On Monday, The New York Times reported that O'Connor had met with a specialist in Parkinson's Disease who visited the White House eight times in eight months, fanning a new round of speculation about Biden's wellbeing.
In response to a question about the visits, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates cited a White House statement that "A wide variety of specialists from the Walter Reed system visit the White House complex to treat thousands of military personnel who work on the grounds."
Bates also cited a February memo from O'Connor to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that said a neurologic exam revealed no findings consistent with Parkinson's or a host of other neurological disorders.
But experts in presidential health, and its long history of medical cover ups, said the close personal bonds between the Bidens and O'Connor intensify the inherent conflicts in relying on the White House physician to accurately convey the state of his employer's health to the public.
"That compounds the problem," said Matthew Algeo, historian and author of "The President is a Sick Man" about Grover Cleveland's coverup of an 1893 cancer procedure. "You're working for the guy you're examining, and he's your buddy. It's just a lose-lose situation."
Or win-win. Obviously Congress will have to conduct hearings and determine who knew what and who covered up what. I imagine everyone will perjure themselves or stonewall Congress, and then Biden will pardon them all for their massive perjuries in the transition period between the term Trump actually won and the term Trump gets to actually serve.
Below: Wow.
Biden's brother is celebrating having Biden back, "to enjoy whatever time we have left."
He admits that Biden's health was a "major factor" in the decision.
Biden's White House of remorseless liars has repeatedly denied this.
Via Nick Arama, who notes the obvious question:
"Whatever time we have left" sounds ominous. Is that just a recognition that he's 81, or is that a hint of something more that we're not being told?
And just like that, Frank Biden goes under the wheels of the White House Bus of Lies:
Nancy Cordes
@nancycordes
Frank Biden told @cbsnews that his brother's health, "in my humble opinion absolutely" contributed to his decision to bow out. But source close to Biden fam says "Frank Biden suffers from alcoholism and hasn't spoken to his brother in weeks. What he said... is completely untrue."
They played the "alcoholic" card? Don't they know that Biden's VP is an alcoholic who routinely drinks her lunch and slurs out her midday shpeeches?