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Subject: Re: New details emerge about Biden's mental state - and the steps staffers take to shield the '10am to 4pm president'
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 > Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
 >
https://nypost.com/2024/06/30/us-news/disturbing-new-details-emerge-about-
 > bidens-mental-state-and-the-steps-staffers-go-to-hide-them/
 > 
 > More questions about President Biden’s cognitive state are emerging
as a 
 > new poll showed a jaw-dropping 72% of registered voters do not
believe he 
 > is mentally fit for the job.
 > 
 > While many Democrats were left flabbergasted and sent into a
tailspin by 
 > Biden’s debate debacle last week, the 81-year-old president’s
cognitive 
 > slips have been nothing new to his inner circle.
 > 
 > White House aides have been meticulously working behind the scenes 
 > throughout his presidency to minimize his exposure to situations
where his 
 > cognitive slip-ups could flare up in public and to adapt the
day-to-day of 
 > the presidency to the needs of an octogenarian.
 > 
 > The commander-in-chief is seen as prone to absent-minded gaffes and

 > fatigue outside of six hours a day — between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. —
and 
 > while traveling abroad, Axios said in a new report.
 > 
 > From shorter stairs when boarding Air Force One to guiding him on
jaunts 
 > over concerns about his gait and proclivity for appearing lost, his
team 
 > has reportedly been forced to step up its efforts over time to
shield him 
 > more and more.
 > 
 > “I know many of these people and how the White House operates,”
said 
 > Chandler West, the White House’s former deputy director of
photography 
 > under Biden, in an Instagram story after the debate, Axios
reported.
 > 
 > “They will say he has a ‘cold’ or just experienced a ‘bad night,’
but for 
 > weeks and months, in private, they have all said what we saw last
night — 
 > Joe is not as strong as he was just a couple of years ago,” West
said.
 > 
 > “The debate was not the first bad day, and it’s not gonna be the
last,” 
 > said the ex-administration staffer, who had a first-hand seat to
the 
 > president’s behavior.
 > 
 > “It’s time for Joe to go.”
 > 
 > The problem is, “A true succession plan does not exist,” a senior
Dem 
 > campaign adviser admitted to CNN. “That’s what makes all of this
not just 
 > heartbreaking but very problematic.”
 > 
 > The White House has hit back at these characterizations of Biden’s
mental 
 > acuity. 
 > 
 > “Not only does the President perform around the clock, but he
maintains a 
 > schedule that tires younger aides, including foreign trips into
active war 
 > zones, and he proves he has that capacity by delivering tangible
results 
 > that pundits had declared impossible,” White House deputy press
secretary 
 > Andrew Bates said in a statement. 
 > 
 > Bates cited NATO expansion, “outmaneuvering China to bring
manufacturing 
 > home,” and “out-negotiating Republican officials as they try to
impose 
 > recession-causing MAGAnomics policies and radical abortion bans” as

 > evidence that Biden is up to the job. 
 > 
 > In addition to his mental issues, the elderly president reportedly
often 
 > wears orthopedic shoes and has undergone physical therapy to help
combat 
 > stiffness, the White House physician previously disclosed.
 > 
 > After his hard fall during last year’s Air Force Academy
commencement 
 > caused by him tripping over a sandbag onstage, aides have been
careful to 
 > avert any repeats.
 > 
 > Post-debate footage showed the president being helped off stage
slowly by 
 > his wife after the 90-minute bout against former President Donald
Trump, 
 > 78.
 > 
 > A former White House staffer who was tasked with helping to tend to
the 
 > president’s accommodations in the executive mansion told Axios that
senior 
 > officials often “wouldn’t let us do anything for them,” suggesting
it is 
 > to keep Biden’s issues on the down-low.
 > 
 > “In every administration, there are individuals who would prefer to
spend 
 > more time with the President and senior officials,” Bates said,
crediting 
 > Biden for “achieving historic results for the American people
because of 
 > his determination, values, and experience.”
 > 
 > Press access in Biden’s White House has also been remarkably
limited.
 > 
 > Three and a half years into his presidency, Biden has held the
fewest solo 
 > press conferences of any president since at least the late 1980s —
despite 
 > several raging wars, a migrant border crisis and economic upheaval,

 > according to data from the American Presidency Project.
 > 
 > Moreover, he rarely does sit-down interviews with news outlets. One
rare 
 > interview he gave to Time Magazine that was published earlier this
month 
 > featured him conflating Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian
President 
 > Vladimir Putin, as well as making a series of other factual
blunders.
 > 
 > “I have been very critical of the campaign strategy and the White
House 
 > and their decision to sort of bubble-wrap him in the last year —
you can’t 
 > run for president by duck and cover,” a former spokesman for the
first 
 > lady, Michael LaRosa recently vented on Fox News’ “Media Buzz.”
 > 
 > Several reporters have alleged that Biden campaign officials have
sought 
 > to dissuade them from talking with rally attendees who were
questioning 
 > the wisdom of having him as nominee.
 > 
 > At times, Biden has quipped about his handlers demanding that he
limit his 
 > own question-and-answer sessions during press sprays. In September,
an 
 > official was heard telling the press that the conference was over —
while 
 > Biden was rambling on. Staffers appeared to turn on music to signal
the 
 > end as well.
 > 
 > Behind the scenes, First Lady Jill Biden has reportedly lashed out
at 
 > aides who failed to cut short pressers where Biden was making
gaffes.
 > 
 > Flashback: WH bristles over ‘cheap fakes’
 > Clips of Biden rambling in hard-to-follow tangents, making glaring
verbal 
 > mishaps, appearing to struggle on his way off stage and just
appearing to 
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