Last night, NBC's Law & Order brought up former president Joe Biden's dementia, claiming no one thought Biden's staff should keep it secret.
In Thursday's episode, "White Lies," an investment fund manager named Tom Hardiman is pushed into an incoming car at night. Hardiman had recently taken over a pharmaceutical research company devoted to "small-market research into rare-diseases."
He planned to change the company's focus to larger market products like weight loss and cholesterol. Standing in his way was the business' founder, Norman Munson, whom the company's board refused to remove.
Prosecutors discover that Munson secretly suffers from dementia. Munson's close friend and researcher, Kevin Goodall, killed Hardiman to prevent him from revealing the dementia to the board. Goodall knew that if the board discovered Munson's cognitive decline, the company would cease researching a rare illness called Batten disease which Goodall's daughter suffers from.
Assistant District Attorneys Nolan Price (Hugh Dancy) and Samantha Maroun (Odelya Halevi) debate the ethics of revealing Munson's dementia in court. Their conversation turns to the case of former president Joe Biden.
Maroun: He [Goodall] was acting under extreme emotional disturbance. He was panicked at the idea a new CEO would abandon Batten disease research, that his daughter's life was in jeopardy.
Price: Who gave Goodall the right to decide what company shareholders can and can't know? Look what happened to Biden's inner circle when the world was questioning his fitness to serve. No one thought they had the right to keep that secret.
Maroun: Norman Munson is not a commander in chief. And by all accounts, in the small portion of the world he does control, he did nothing but good. You want to humiliate him on the stand to--to help some Wall Street guys get richer?
Nolan claims no one thought Biden's staff had the right to keep it secret when in reality regime media attacked anyone who questioned Biden's fitness to serve. Powerful journalists gaslighted the public for years about Biden's obvious cognitive decline. Not only did Biden's inner circle not face consequences, they went onto cushy media jobs or sinecures.
Throughout most of Biden's presidency, conservatives were the only ones calling for transparency on Biden's health. Even CNN's Jake Tapper admitted in 2025 that “conservative media was right and conservative media was correct."
Pretending that "no one thought they had the right to keep that secret" is historical revisionism that lets the Democratic party and establishment journalists off the hook.
Price and Maroun take it for granted that the former commander-in-chief had dementia. It is now accepted fact and Hollywood can mention it in toss away lines on a major network show.
Yet as recently as June of 2024, the previous White House and its lapdog media were in lockstep denial about it.
It is little comfort that Hollywood, as a cultural extension of the Democratic party, can only admit such a frightening truth about a Democratic president when that president is no longer in power.