Republican pundit Scott Jennings called it a ‘scandal of epic proportions’ that White House aides tried to hide President Joe Biden’s limitations during the 82-year-old’s entire time in office.
The Wall Street Journal came out with an extensive report Thursday detailing how Biden’s team hired a vocal coach to improve Biden’s ‘fading warble.’
Top aides were put into roles usually reserved for the president, as aides scrapped meetings on Biden’s ‘bad days’ and even kept him away from his own Cabinet appointees and Congressional Democratic allies.
‘It’s the biggest scandal in America,’ Jennings commented Thursday night on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip. ‘And the level and volume of people who dedicated themselves to lying to everyone at home about this man’s condition for four straight years – up through this summer – is breathtaking.’
Jennings said it was a ‘fair’ question to ask: ‘Who is running this country?’
‘And as I said earlier, if you’re worried about Donald Trump’s advisers having influence for the last four years, apparently this president, duly elected, but this president was not capable of fulfilling the duties of the office,’ Jenning continued.
‘And his staff and the White House lied about it and kept it from the American people,’ the GOP pundit claimed. ‘It’s an absolute scandal what’s going on.’
The White House has pushed back at the assertion that there was a largescale cover-up.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told the Journal that Biden ‘earned the most accomplished record of any modern commander in chief and rebuilt the middle class because of his attention to policy details that impact millions of lives.’
Bates also rejected the notion that Biden had declined.
But the American public realized that dramatically when Biden stepped onstage next to now President-elect Donald Trump during their late June face-off in Atlanta, Georgia.
Biden’s disastrous debate performance was the beginning of the end of his reelection campaign and he dropped out less than a month later.
But there were earlier signs too – such as when Special Counsel Robert Hur last year released a report depicting a forgetful and frail then-81 year old.
Hur decided not to charge Biden for keeping classified documents in his Delaware garage because, he wrote, the president ‘would likely present himselt to a jury’ as a ‘sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.’
Behind-the-scenes, the Journal reported, Biden couldn’t recall lines his team discussed with him going into the interview.
Directions often had to be repeated when Biden was doing public events – such as where to enter and exit a stage – that would be obvious to most people.
During campaign events, Trump would often mock Biden getting lost onstage.
‘Look here’s a stage,’ Trump said at a campaign event all the way back in September 2012. ‘I’ve never seen this stupid stage before – I’ve never seen it before. But if I walk left there’s a stair. And if I walk right, there’s a stair. And this guy gets up, “Where am I? Where the hell am I?”‘ Trump said, walking aimlessly around the stage.
Biden has exactly one more month in office before President-elect Trump is sworn-in.