The fallout from incumbent President and presumptive Democrat White House nominee Joe Biden's disastrous first 2024 debate with Republican predecessor and challenger Donald Trump continues, with liberal New York Magazine publishing perhaps the most scathing account yet of Democrats privately vindicating concerns about the president's mental health that for years had been dismissed as partisan smears.
Democrats and their allies in the mainstream press have largely dismissed such concerns as unfounded; as recently as June 21, left-wing "Fact-checking" outlet PolitiFact attributed the narrative in large part to "Videos of President Joe Biden that have been selectively edited or taken out of context."
On June 29, Axios published a report detailing admissions from "Current and former Biden officials" that the president is only "Dependably engaged" between the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., outside of which "Or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued."
On July 4, New York Magazine Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi published an even more damning story, about a "Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden," based on off-the-record conversations with Democrat insiders who had been reaching out to her since January to relay their concerns as to whether Biden could "Even make it to Election Day" that they developed after interacting with or seeing him up close.
"Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked to find that the president did not remember their names. At a White House event last year, a guest recalled, with horror, realizing that the president would not be able to stay for the reception because it was clear he would not be able to make it through the reception. The guest wasn't sure they could vote for Biden, since the guest was now open to an idea that they had previously dismissed as right-wing propaganda: The president may not really be the acting president after all."
"But surely someone was in charge? And surely there must be a plan, since surely this situation could not endure? I heard these questions posed at cocktail parties on the coasts but also at MAGA rallies in Middle America. There emerged a comical overlap between the beliefs of the nation's most elite liberal Biden supporters and the beliefs of the most rabid and conspiratorial supporters of former President Trump. Resistance or QAnon, they shared a grand theory of America in 2024: There has to be a secret group of high-level government leaders who control Biden and who will soon set into motion their plan to replace Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee. Nothing else made sense. They were in full agreement."
When seeing Biden at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner, Nuzzi says she was taken aback by him looking "Not quite plausible."
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