The Post & Email by William L. Kovacs 6/2/2025
Since June 2021, Reform the Kakistocracy has been hunting for the ghosts performing Joe Biden’s presidential duties due to his diminished mental capacity. A 2025 article, “Finding the Ghost Performing Biden’s Presidential Duties,” asked the question directly. Finally, a new book, “Original Sin” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, has identified the ghosts as a group of long-time Biden senior advisors and family members. The authors identify them as Mike Donilon (Senior Adviser), Steve Ricchetti (Counselor and second chief of staff), Bruce Reed (Deputy chief of staff for policy), Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, and, occasionally, Ron Klain (first chief of staff), Annie Tomasini (Senior Adviser), and Anthony Bernal (described as a top adviser to the first lady and her “work husband”).
In U.S. history, only two presidents have been known to hold the office while in long-term diminished capacity – Woodrow Wilson and Joe Biden. The arrangement for masking the mental diminishment under Biden (2021-2025) was similar to the arrangement used by Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921). Under President Wilson, Edith Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson, assumed the role of acting President, and the doctor providing medical care to the President was her primary advisor. In Biden’s case, his family was involved, but there are so many fill-in presidents that the authors named the team “the politburo.”
While the Department of Justice will determine the legality of these ghostly pursuits, the primary policy question that must be addressed is the legal status of all the documents that Biden may not have had the capacity to sign or may not have personally signed.
The Biden presidency issued 162 Executive Orders, 745 Presidential Proclamations, and 382 other types of presidential documents, many of which were Emergency Declarations. In addition, the Biden administration signed 274 bills into law in the 118th Congress. Last Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024, the Biden presidency signed fifty bills into law. Biden also set the presidential record by issuing 4,200 pardons and clemencies.
In addition to “Original Sin,” The Wall Street Journal wrote “How the White House Functioned with a Diminished Biden in Charge.” It corroborates how the White House staff covered up Biden’s mental diminishment. The Journal interviewed fifty people. It described ways in which Biden’s staff hid his diminishment. Its conclusion did not answer who ran the United States during the Biden presidency. Thanks to Original Sin, we now know the composition of the Politburo. While many of the actions taken by the Biden administration are unimportant or undertaken by Executive Order, Proclamation, or Emergency Declaration, all of which President Trump can immediately revoke, there is the question of the legal status of the laws enacted and pardons granted that President Biden did not sign. Are they all void? How does Congress or the Attorney General identify them?
More:
https://www.thepostemail.com/2025/06/02/the-ghosts-performing-bidens-presidential-duties/
