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(Unless you’re Donald Trump Jr., in which case you suspect that even Biden’s prostate cancer was covered up.) (Indeed it was. Dr. Reich tries to go to the well too many times. Biden as president had the best medical care in the world. There is no way his doctors would fail to administer the routine PSA test every year.)
In their explosive new book out today, Original Sin, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson call Biden aides’ refusal to admit how badly Biden’s mental capacities had deteriorated a “cover-up.” (Oh, so he knows about the book, but puts "cover-up" in scare quotes.)
If you want a cover-up, can you possibly find a bigger one than Trump’s entire regime? Every day, it seems, we learn of another effort to cover up facts to fit Trump’s wishes.
It was reported over the weekend that the chief of staff of Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, ordered a senior career analyst to change his finding that no evidence linked Venezuela’s government to the Tren de Aragua gang operating in the United States.
Why the attempted cover-up? Because the presumed link has been Trump’s entire justification for using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to abduct immigrants without due process and send them to the El Salvador prison.
The regime continues to insist that Kilmar Ábrego García is a gang member because he has “MS13” tattooed on his fingers. In fact, he doesn’t. That’s a cover-up, too. The photo released by the regime showing his hand with the “M,” “S,” “1” and “3” was photoshopped; earlier photos don’t show the tattoo. (This has already been debunked.)
Why the hell are we wasting time and energy debating who knew what and when about Biden’s deteriorating condition anyway, when voters really need to hear about the deteriorating condition of democracy and the rule of law under Trump? (Oh. That's in the past. Not important anymore. So Dr. Reich, why did we waste so much time and energy about what and when Trump did on Jan. 6th, Or what Nixon did during Watergate, or what FDR did with the internment camps, when voters really need to know [insert your preferred issue here]?
Trump has always done better with so-called “low information” voters. (Add in a personal insult to millions of people.)
During an April 30 interview with NewsNation, a reporter asked Trump about his war against Harvard University. Here’s his response:
Why isn’t Trump’s cognitive decline — and the failure of White House aides to talk about it — a far more significant cover-up story than the alleged failure of Biden’s aides? (That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
Some blame Biden’s aides for giving us another term of Trump. But to believe this you need to make a series of bonkers assumptions — that had they been more open about Biden’s cognitive decline, he would have abandoned his reelection campaign sooner; that had he dropped out sooner, Kamala Harris would have had more time to mount an effective campaign; that if she had had more time, she would have won. Why not blame Harris for an insufficiently compelling campaign?
Why look back to Biden at all when there’s so much that needs to be seen right now — so much that’s so devastatingly, frighteningly dangerous to all of us? When the fate of American democracy is hanging by such a thin thread?
(By the way, Joe, my wishes to you for a speedy recovery.)
Astonishingly, Dr. Reich sticks hard and fast to The Narrative, even though what he previously denied was happening with Biden's cognition has now attained the status of common knowledge.
But to him it's still "so-called" and "alleged."
He's spinning with all his might, trying to avoid acknowledging that we had a president that was incompetent to lead the nation, and he particpated in the gaslighting. Dr. Reich wants to talk about anything else. Particularly if it gives him an excuse to blast Trump again.
Dr. Reich is a calculating liar. He's sold his soul to The Agenda, and likely doesn't have any idea how ridiculous he sounds. Someone needed to tell Biden to stop, and someone needs to tell Dr. Reich to stop.
It’s an irrelevant, contemptible distraction from what’s threatening America
Friends,
I’m truly sorry that Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
But the Biden news that’s been dominating headlines, exciting columnists, lighting up social media, and grinding up endless podcast hours has been something else: a so-called “cover-up” of the extent of Biden’s declining cognition before he resigned. ("So-called?" The left has admitted it was a cover-up. The mainstream media has admitted it. Even NPR. A major leftist journalist wrote a book about it. Dr. Reich himself has provided rhetorical cover for it by counter accusing Trump as having dementia. From that article, December, 2023:
Friends,
I’m truly sorry that Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
But the Biden news that’s been dominating headlines, exciting columnists, lighting up social media, and grinding up endless podcast hours has been something else: a so-called “cover-up” of the extent of Biden’s declining cognition before he resigned. ("So-called?" The left has admitted it was a cover-up. The mainstream media has admitted it. Even NPR. A major leftist journalist wrote a book about it. Dr. Reich himself has provided rhetorical cover for it by counter accusing Trump as having dementia. From that article, December, 2023:
If Biden’s age is fair game, why aren’t Trump’s age and apparent mental decline? Biden may appear frail at times, but he’s rational.
7 months later he finally conceded what everyone already knew, that Biden was in decline, but even then said that he's the best man for the job.
Until recently, I assumed that Joe Biden would get a second term despite worries about his age because most Americans find Trump so loathsome.
But I’ve underestimated Bidenomics. It’s turning out to be the most successful set of economic policies the United States has witnessed in a half-century.
That Dr. Reich would call it a "so-called cover-up" at this point is either naive, cynical, or just plain evil.)
(Unless you’re Donald Trump Jr., in which case you suspect that even Biden’s prostate cancer was covered up.) (Indeed it was. Dr. Reich tries to go to the well too many times. Biden as president had the best medical care in the world. There is no way his doctors would fail to administer the routine PSA test every year.)
In their explosive new book out today, Original Sin, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson call Biden aides’ refusal to admit how badly Biden’s mental capacities had deteriorated a “cover-up.” (Oh, so he knows about the book, but puts "cover-up" in scare quotes.)
The book details Biden’s cognitive lapses and an alleged effort by aides to conceal them from the public ahead of his decision to end his reelection bid. ("Alleged?" Dr. Reich is doing his level best to dance around the fact of Biden's long-term cognitive decline.)
Many commentators are livid about what the book reveals. “The book makes it very, very clear there are people who knew and said nothing. And that is a crime against this republic,” huffed CNN’s Van Jones on Sunday. “I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up.”
Oh, please.
Can we get back to reality? (Reality is a state with which Dr. Reich remains unacquainted.
Many commentators are livid about what the book reveals. “The book makes it very, very clear there are people who knew and said nothing. And that is a crime against this republic,” huffed CNN’s Van Jones on Sunday. “I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up.”
Oh, please.
Can we get back to reality? (Reality is a state with which Dr. Reich remains unacquainted.
Dr. Reich is very quick to dismiss a fellow leftist's characterization of the situation since it violates his narrative. Does he have a good reason for this dismissal? Let's read on.)
If one of our major parties is to rot in political hell for harboring “people who knew and said nothing,” it’s the party that now controls Congress. (Oh. Dr. Reich is not going to refute Van Jones, he just changes the subject.)
Congressional Republicans know Trump has usurped the powers of Congress, is using the Justice Department to prosecute his enemies, is abducting people off the street and sending them to a brutal prison in El Salvador, and is actively dismantling American democracy — and yet they say nothing.
The so-called “Biden cover-up” is as much a distraction from all of this as are Trump’s stream of distractions (calling DEI an “illegal and immoral discrimination program” and jurists “communist radical-left judges”; saying we’ll invade Greenland, annex Canada, and remake Gaza into a Mediterranean resort). (It's still a "so-called cover-up." What Dr. Reich doesn't want to admit is that the nation was governed by a man incapable of tying his own shoes [or more likely, a cabal of shadowy behind-the-scenes leftist manipulators]. The subsequent web of deception was nothing more than the effort to retain power. It speaks to the moral illegitimacy of everyone involved in the situation or contributed to the smokescreen. These people put the nation at risk for the sake of power and should be prosecuted.
Congressional Republicans know Trump has usurped the powers of Congress, is using the Justice Department to prosecute his enemies, is abducting people off the street and sending them to a brutal prison in El Salvador, and is actively dismantling American democracy — and yet they say nothing.
The so-called “Biden cover-up” is as much a distraction from all of this as are Trump’s stream of distractions (calling DEI an “illegal and immoral discrimination program” and jurists “communist radical-left judges”; saying we’ll invade Greenland, annex Canada, and remake Gaza into a Mediterranean resort). (It's still a "so-called cover-up." What Dr. Reich doesn't want to admit is that the nation was governed by a man incapable of tying his own shoes [or more likely, a cabal of shadowy behind-the-scenes leftist manipulators]. The subsequent web of deception was nothing more than the effort to retain power. It speaks to the moral illegitimacy of everyone involved in the situation or contributed to the smokescreen. These people put the nation at risk for the sake of power and should be prosecuted.
Including Dr. Reich.
Dr. Reich's contribution to the deception delegitimizes him. He's a liar and a manipulator. We speculated above on whether or not he is evil. We are now sure. He is.)
If you want a cover-up, can you possibly find a bigger one than Trump’s entire regime? Every day, it seems, we learn of another effort to cover up facts to fit Trump’s wishes.
It was reported over the weekend that the chief of staff of Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, ordered a senior career analyst to change his finding that no evidence linked Venezuela’s government to the Tren de Aragua gang operating in the United States.
Why the attempted cover-up? Because the presumed link has been Trump’s entire justification for using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to abduct immigrants without due process and send them to the El Salvador prison.
The regime continues to insist that Kilmar Ábrego García is a gang member because he has “MS13” tattooed on his fingers. In fact, he doesn’t. That’s a cover-up, too. The photo released by the regime showing his hand with the “M,” “S,” “1” and “3” was photoshopped; earlier photos don’t show the tattoo. (This has already been debunked.)
Why the hell are we wasting time and energy debating who knew what and when about Biden’s deteriorating condition anyway, when voters really need to hear about the deteriorating condition of democracy and the rule of law under Trump? (Oh. That's in the past. Not important anymore. So Dr. Reich, why did we waste so much time and energy about what and when Trump did on Jan. 6th, Or what Nixon did during Watergate, or what FDR did with the internment camps, when voters really need to know [insert your preferred issue here]?
Trump has always done better with so-called “low information” voters. (Add in a personal insult to millions of people.)
But his second-term tactic of “flooding the zone” with all sorts of detritus is causing even average voters to lose track of major stories. (That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
In a recent poll from The New York Times and Siena College, respondents who had not heard about his regime’s mistaken deportation of Ábrego García to a Salvadoran mega-prison — a significant percentage — gave Trump nearly a 10-point higher approval rating on immigration than respondents who had heard. (That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
And what about Trump’s deteriorating cognition, and the failure of anyone in the Trump White House to talk about this?
You don’t have to look hard to find evidence. Time magazine recently interviewed Trump in the Oval Office and had this exchange:
In a recent poll from The New York Times and Siena College, respondents who had not heard about his regime’s mistaken deportation of Ábrego García to a Salvadoran mega-prison — a significant percentage — gave Trump nearly a 10-point higher approval rating on immigration than respondents who had heard. (That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
And what about Trump’s deteriorating cognition, and the failure of anyone in the Trump White House to talk about this?
You don’t have to look hard to find evidence. Time magazine recently interviewed Trump in the Oval Office and had this exchange:
Time: “Mr. President, you were showing us the new paintings you have behind us. You put all these new portraits. One of them includes John Adams. John Adams said we’re a government ruled by laws, not by men. Do you agree with that?”
Trump: “John Adams said that? Where was the painting?”
Time: (pointing behind Trump): “It’s right here.”(That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
Reporter: “There was a car bomb in Moscow this morning that killed a Russian general, do you have any reaction to that?”
Trump: “Who killed what?”
Reporter: “Russian general killed by a car bomb.”
Trump: “Wow, no, I just heard. You’re just telling me that for the first time. Where did this take place?”(That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
During an April 30 interview with NewsNation, a reporter asked Trump about his war against Harvard University. Here’s his response:
“Well, I say this. We had riots in Harlem, in Harlem, and frankly if you look at what’s gone on — and people from Harlem went up and they protested, Stephen, and they protested very strongly against Harvard. They happened to be on my side.” He continued, “You know I got a very high Black vote. You know that? Very, very high Black vote. It was a very great compliment to me.” (That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
“Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten!” (That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
Why isn’t Trump’s cognitive decline — and the failure of White House aides to talk about it — a far more significant cover-up story than the alleged failure of Biden’s aides? (That's in the past. Not important anymore.)
Some blame Biden’s aides for giving us another term of Trump. But to believe this you need to make a series of bonkers assumptions — that had they been more open about Biden’s cognitive decline, he would have abandoned his reelection campaign sooner; that had he dropped out sooner, Kamala Harris would have had more time to mount an effective campaign; that if she had had more time, she would have won. Why not blame Harris for an insufficiently compelling campaign?
Why look back to Biden at all when there’s so much that needs to be seen right now — so much that’s so devastatingly, frighteningly dangerous to all of us? When the fate of American democracy is hanging by such a thin thread?
(By the way, Joe, my wishes to you for a speedy recovery.)
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