Who Was 'Shocked' by Joe Biden's Infirmity?
Byron York
Here is a basic question about "Original Sin," the new book detailing the White House's attempt to hide former President Joe Biden's in-plain-sight mental and physical decline: Why is it having such an impact? Sure, the subject -- an intermittently disabled president -- is hugely important. But on the other hand, everybody knew, or should have known, that Biden was an intermittently disabled president.
So why did the book devour the news cycle last week? You have to go back to the pivotal debate between Biden and then-former President Donald Trump on June 27, 2024. Biden's out-of-it performance shocked Democrats and their allies in the media. In an instant, they realized he was not up to the job of serving a second term as president. (Truth be told, he was not up to the job of finishing his first term, either.)
How could they be shocked? It had been obvious for a while that Biden was struggling, cognitively and physically. There were three public events in just the weeks before the debate in which Biden's problems were overwhelmingly clear. Yet even today, many insist they were shocked on debate night.
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