{"id":2260321,"date":"2024-06-05T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T14:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-report-biden-not-the-same-person-as-signs-of-cognitive-decline-kick-in-hard-show-hes-slipping-away\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:03:11","slug":"new-report-biden-not-the-same-person-as-signs-of-cognitive-decline-kick-in-hard-show-hes-slipping-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-report-biden-not-the-same-person-as-signs-of-cognitive-decline-kick-in-hard-show-hes-slipping-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Study: Biden Showing Clear Signs of Cognitive Decline, Suggesting a Change in Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-report-biden-not-the-same-person-as-signs-of-cognitive-decline-kick-in-hard-show-hes-slipping-away%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2260321&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dei-disaster-petition-circulating-within-secret-service-community-warns-of-potential-insider-threats\/\" title=\"DEI Crisis: Secret Service Petition Raises Concerns About 'Insider Threats\">article discusses concerns<\/a> over \u2064President Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-the-democrats-push-to-dump-biden\/\" title=\"Inside the Democrats' Push to Dump Biden\">declining mental acuity<\/a>, as reported\u2062 by The Wall \u2062Street Journal, with \u2064bipartisan inputs. The White House\u2063 refutes claims of cognitive\u200b decline\u200d while emphasizing\u2062 Biden&#8217;s strengths. Amid\u2062 polls showing public\u200c unease, the White House restricts unscripted appearances. Congressional insiders provide firsthand accounts of Biden&#8217;s diminishing mental capabilities, raising doubts \u2064about his fitness for\u200d office.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 5, 2024 at 6:05am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s mental acuity has slipped so precipitously that pretty much everyone in the Beltway is sitting up and paying attention \u2014 including the White House.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s at least one of the takeaways from a Tuesday report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that\u00a0used sources in Congress to catalogue the ways that the 81-year-old Biden \u201cshows signs of slipping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Democrats and Republicans participated, with over 45 lawmakers and those in their orbit interviewed over a period of several months, according to the Journal \u2014 and, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-corrected-biden-speeches-148-times-sometimes-totally-changing-meaning-said-fact-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> found out that the newspaper was investigating the president\u2019s declining mental state, it apparently pressured Democrats to boost Biden.<\/p>\n<p>At the outset, writers Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes reported that, during the negotiations on two major big-ticket legislative items, Biden appeared lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen President Biden met with congressional leaders in the West Wing in January to negotiate a Ukraine funding deal, he spoke so softly at times that some participants struggled to hear him, according to five people familiar with the meeting,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe read from notes to make obvious points, paused for extended periods and sometimes closed his eyes for so long that some in the room wondered whether he had tuned out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a February one-on-one chat in the Oval Office with House Speaker Mike Johnson, the president said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-alderman-says-gangs-are-responsible-for-chicago-problems-not-racism-as-mayor-lori-lightfoot-claimed\/\" title=\"Chicago Alderman Says Gangs Are Responsible For Chicago Problems, Not Racism, As Mayor Lori Lightfoot Claimed\">recent policy change<\/a> by his administration that jeopardizes some big energy projects was just a study, according to six people told at the time about what Johnson said had happened,\u201d the story noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohnson worried the president\u2019s memory had slipped about the details of his own policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, perhaps the most damning assessment came from former House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/several-big-name-rinos-target-house-freedom-caucus-chairman-ousting-kevin-mccarthy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Is Biden mentally fit to be president?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI used to meet with him when he was vice president. I\u2019d go to his house,\u201d McCarthy told the Journal. \u201cHe\u2019s not the same person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy detailed his debt ceiling negotiations with President Biden, which he said were maddeningly \u201cgeneral\u201d and that, when it came to specifics, the president would merely convey \u201coptimism about working things out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was going back to all the old stuff that had been done for a long time,\u201d McCarthy said regarding the final stage of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he was shocked when I\u2019d say: \u2018No, Mr. President. We talked about that meetings ago. We are done with that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House is vigorously refuting the allegations, as one would expect. Biden isn\u2019t the one doing the refuting himself out in front of the cameras, as one would expect he wouldn\u2019t. Instead, White House spokesman Andrew Bates was doing the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressional Republicans, foreign leaders and nonpartisan national-security experts have made clear in their own words that President Biden is a savvy and effective leader who has a deep record of legislative accomplishment,\u201d Bates, apparently with a straight face, told the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, in 2024, House Republicans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-furious-woman-whose-mother-died-in-ny-nursing-home-says-nbc-news-blocked-her-mentioning-cuomos-name\/\" title=\"WATCH: Furious Woman Whose Mother Died In NY Nursing Home Says NBC News Blocked Her Mentioning Cuomo\u2019s Name\">making false claims<\/a> as a political tactic that flatly contradict previous statements made by themselves and their colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s be clear here \u2014 of the 45 who were interviewed, some of them were, in fact, Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of those who said Biden performed poorly were Republicans, but some Democrats said that he showed his age in several of the exchanges,\u201d the Journal report noted.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the writers noted that \u201c[t]he White House kept close tabs on some of The Wall Street Journal\u2019s interviews with Democratic lawmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the offices of several Democrats shared with the White House either a recording of an interview or details about what was asked, some of those lawmakers spoke to the Journal a second time and once again emphasized Biden\u2019s strengths,\u201d the piece noted.<\/p>\n<p>Bates\u2019 response to this? \u201cWe thought it was important that all perspectives be represented\u201d in order to set the WSJ straight on what he called \u201cfalse and politically motivated claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, because the idea the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-goes-completely-incoherent-wisconsin-event-worse-usual\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is \u201cslipping\u201d mentally<\/a> is a partisan concept in no way buttressed by the evidence our lying eyes and ears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-goes-viral-looking-half-asleep-mumbling-brutal-oval-office-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are producing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Biden is no longer in compos mentis isn\u2019t a new idea, but congressional insiders describing the painful diminishing mental returns of our 46th president is.<\/p>\n<p>It also comes as polls show Americans are wary of the president\u2019s fragile state, Linskey and Hughes reported, with just 28 percent in a March Wall Street Journal poll saying they thought that Biden was a better fit mentally and physically for the presidency than presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is. (Forty-eight percent thought that Trump was a better fit, a gulf of 20 points.)<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, this comes as the White House scrambles to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-alters-official-transcript-cover-stunning-biden-gaffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protect the president from himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans have had minimal opportunities to see Biden in unscripted moments. By the end of April, he had given fewer interviews and press conferences than any of his recent predecessors, according to data collected by Martha Joynt Kumar, an emeritus professor at Towson University. His last wide-ranging town-hall-style meeting with an independent news outlet was in October 2021,\u201d the Journal noted.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just taking the message to the American people. Biden, who previously leaned on his reputation as a congressional deal-cutter during his time in the Senate and the vice presidency, has had fewer meetings with lawmakers every year during his presidency. This went from over three dozen meetings in his first year to about two dozen in his second and just a dozen in his third, according to the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>When reading some of the descriptions of the January Ukraine meeting where Biden was apparently barely audible, it\u2019s not difficult to see why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t be there and not feel uncomfortable,\u201d one attendee told the Journal. \u201cI\u2019ll just say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Journal, Biden frequently passed questions to other lawmakers and staffers, to the point that most at the meeting were talking amongst themselves and not to the guy who sat behind the Oval Office desk, apparently ready to sign or veto whatever Congress sent him.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in a February follow-up with Johnson, Biden appeared unaware that his administration\u2019s policy regarding liquid national gas exports was actually, you know, <em>policy. <\/em>The president reportedly told Johnson that the policy was \u201conly a study,\u201d leaving Johnson \u201cdismayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you see on TV is what you get,\u201d Idaho GOP Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/22-senate-republicans-side-democrats-pass-controversial-95-billion-foreign-aid-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James E. Risch<\/a> told the Journal. \u201cThese people who keep talking about what a dynamo he is behind closed doors \u2014 they need to get him out from behind closed doors, because I didn\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that one. They know what we know and what members of Congress know: This isn\u2019t the same Joe Biden, and there\u2019s no way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sen-mike-lee-epic-proposal-enhance-trump-vs-biden-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hide it until November<\/a>. Period.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn recently made that comment to Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>And if the leftists and the elites get their way, that\u2019s exactly what will happen \u2014 no real election, no real choice for the Electoral College, and no real say for the American people. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal is fighting to keep that from happening, but we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We work tirelessly to expose the lying leftist media and the corrupt America-hating elites.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech\u2019s stranglehold is now so tight that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without help<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  from you, we will not be able to continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The 2024 election is literally the most important election for every living American. We have to unite and fight for our country, otherwise we will lose it. And if we lose the America we love in 2024, we\u2019ll lose it for good. Can we <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>count on you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  to help? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>With you we will be able to field journalists, do more investigative work, expose more corruption, and get desperately needed trStephen A. Smith Lights Up Analyst Over WNBA Delusion, Caitlin Clark Jealousy &#8211; &#8216;Who Talks About the WNBA?!&#8217;uth to millions of Americans. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We can do this only with your help. Please don\u2019t wait one minute.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>  Donate right now<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-leaves-for-delaware-as-russians-prepare-to-take-kyiv\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Leaves for Delaware as Russians Prepare to Take Kyiv\">enjoys spending time<\/a> with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s mental sharpness decline is becoming a focal point, drawing attention across the Beltway, even within the White House. 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