The amount of stories that are beginning to leak out about the cognitive failings of Joe Biden are frankly, infuriating.

These are stories that are not unexpected – not to those of us who knew that Biden was not mentally sharp during the 2020 election, not to those who actually watched him stumble his way through the Afghanistan debacle, not to those who actually saw him fight teleprompters and carry cue cards, and certainly to no one who watched the infamous presidential debate last June. However, the stories now coming out about the cover up – the sheer obfuscation and gaslighting by elected officials and unelected bureaucrats who all KNEW Joe Biden was losing his mental acuity – should piss off every single American who has had to listen to the lies and the claims of “cheap fakes” for the last four years.

While the Wall Street Journal’s feature may have cracked the seal of Pandora’s Box on how Jill and his aides kept Joe in a protective bubble, this New York Times article is ripping the Band-Aid off. While we have heard about Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama‘s roles in ending Joe’s political career, we now are learning that Senator Chuck Schumer, then Majority Leader in the Senate, was sent to reason with Biden in Delaware.

We knew about this trip previously, but now the NYT is revealing the gory details of a president who had no idea what was going on around him – and the cover up that Democrats and the media had willingly participated in.

It was July 13, 2024, a humid summer afternoon just before four o’clock, and Mr. Schumer, the Democratic leader of the Senate, was about to make a blunt case to Mr. Biden that he needed to drop his bid for a second term.

If there were a secret ballot among Democratic senators, Mr. Schumer would tell the president, no more than five would say he should continue running. Mr. Biden’s own pollsters assessed that he had about a 5 percent chance of prevailing against Donald J. Trump, Mr. Schumer would tell him — information that was apparently news to the president. And if the president refused to step aside, the senator would argue, the consequences for Democrats and Mr. Biden’s own legacy after a half-century of public service would be catastrophic.

“If you run and you lose to Trump, and we lose the Senate, and we don’t get back the House, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window,” Mr. Schumer said. “But worse — you go down in American history as one of the darkest figures.”

He would end with a directive. “If I were you,” Mr. Schumer said, “I wouldn’t run, and I’m urging you not to run.”

The roughly 45-minute conversation, which took place on a screened-in porch overlooking a pond, was more pointed and emotional than previously known, and helps to explain how Mr. Biden came to the decision just over a week later to end his campaign.

It is a central piece of the untold story of how Mr. Schumer and congressional Democrats, who spent years batting away suggestions that Mr. Biden was too old and mentally frail to be president, ultimately led the effort to pressure him to step aside.

The article is full of damning information, but one of the most horrifying is this line:

Tap, hold and load in 4K.

“Once in a while, Mr. Biden would forget why he had called” Chuck Schumer per The New York Times.

Now they report this 3 days before Biden’s presidency ends. pic.twitter.com/G4Q8tZY8Yz

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 17, 2025

This was not like a conversation with your grandfather, where he might drift a bit during a chat. THIS WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and when anyone pointed out that he was essentially a meat puppet for those who were pulling his strings, Democrats and the media insisted that Biden was “sharp as a tack.”

Donald Trump Truth Social 02:53 PM EST 12/30/24 pic.twitter.com/87VLF9UivM

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) December 30, 2024

In the NYT article, Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries were stuck trying to calm their upset caucuses after the June debate. But they knew they were stuck.

That night, about two dozen House Democrats, including Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, gathered for a watch party in the community room of the Washington waterfront luxury apartment complex where Mr. Jeffries and many of them lived, known as “the dorm.” But the festive atmosphere dissipated immediately after Mr. Biden, pale and hoarse, shuffled onto the stage in Atlanta and began stumbling through his answers. By the end of the 90-minute debate, those who had been able to bear sticking around were in a panic.

Mr. Jeffries had a motto he often shared with his caucus: “Calm is an intentional decision.” He tried to channel it that night, even as his internal alarm bells were ringing and colleagues were telling him they could not possibly win their seats with Mr. Biden at the top of the ticket.

“We’ve got to process it all, see where we’re at tomorrow morning, and we’ll come up with a game plan,” Mr. Jeffries told them.

Mr. Schumer, who was at a fund-raiser in California during the debate, had a similar message for the donors he saw that night. “We’ll have to see,” he told them vaguely.

But many powerful people had seen enough.

That night, Mr. Schumer’s flip phone started ringing, and it wouldn’t stop for days. Donors, members of Congress, union bosses and even strangers who fished his number out of a Harvard reunion book were calling, pleading with him to tell Mr. Biden to get out of the race.

Mr. Schumer had one simple message for everyone who called him. “Do not be public,” he said. “That will get his back up, and you’ve got to let the dust settle. But if you can, call whoever you know in the campaign. Call the White House.”

Mr. Schumer saved his frank conversations for Mr. Jeffries and former President Barack Obama. On June 28, the night after the debate, Mr. Jeffries was scheduled to participate in a fund-raiser in New York City, where he was to interview Mr. Obama in front of an audience in a “fireside chat” setting. At a brief dinner meeting before the event, Mr. Obama suggested addressing the elephant in the room “right up at the top.”

Onstage, the former president told the crowd that bad debates happen and while this one had greatly complicated the situation, Democrats had to find a way to power through it. They took no questions.

Privately, Mr. Jeffries began working to persuade Mr. Ricchetti and Jeffrey D. Zients, the White House chief of staff, that Vice President Kamala Harris would be a superior candidate to Mr. Biden.

Obama, knowing that Biden would not take this news well from him, wanted Schumer to talk with him. Schumer tried on July 3rd, but when Biden sent his letter (which we know he certainly did not write) insisting that he was still running and Democrats needed to suck it up, panic exploded.

Democrats on Capitol Hill seethed. In a closed-door lunch the next day, senators said the president was being selfish. They questioned whether he had even written the letter himself, or whether his aides or maybe even his son Hunter had written it for him.

On the phone the next day, Mr. Schumer told Mr. Ricchetti he needed to send the top White House and campaign advisers to address the Democratic caucus, and threatened him should he fail to do so.

“If we don’t have this meeting, I cannot hold my members back anymore,” Mr. Schumer said. “You’re going to get half my caucus to sign a letter saying he should step down.”

The July 11 meeting was grim. Democratic senators, even normally reserved ones who were close with Mr. Biden, erupted. The usually quiet Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a West Point graduate and former paratrooper, said he could no longer support his commander in chief unless Mr. Biden could produce two neurologists to issue a public report saying he was fit to serve, and then hold a news conference where anyone could ask questions.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island told Mr. Biden’s aides that the silence from the majority of Democratic senators should not be interpreted as a sign of support. It was out of respect and affection to allow Mr. Biden time to gracefully exit the race, but it would not last forever, he said, because if they continued to vouch for his fitness, they would be “lying.”

NEWSFLASH – they were lying before. And they knew it. The problem was, after the debate, EVERYONE ELSE knew they were lying. And there was no covering it up any longer. It was left to Schumer to deliver the coup de grâce to Biden himself on July 13th.

Late the next afternoon, Mr. Schumer joined Mr. Biden on the screened-in porch in Rehoboth Beach to deliver his own blunt message.

He gave a detailed blow-by-blow of what each Democratic senator had told Mr. Biden’s top aides on Capitol Hill days earlier, leaving the president wide-eyed and leading Mr. Schumer to conclude that his aides had not briefed him on what had transpired.

“If there’s a secret ballot, Mr. President,” Mr. Schumer said, “my guess is you at most get five yeses.”

“Really?” Mr. Biden responded.

“I know my caucus,” Mr. Schumer told him. “You know I know my caucus.”

Mr. Biden nodded.

Then as the president listened silently, Mr. Schumer told him he risked going down in history as one of the “darkest figures.”

Mr. Schumer said if he had even a 50 percent chance of winning, he would probably keep going. “Fifty-fifty, to do this, to stay here; it’s worth it,” he said. “But, Mr. President, you’re not getting the information as to what the chances are.”

When he asked whether Mr. Biden had talked to his pollsters about his chances of winning the race, the president shook his head.

“Well, I have talked to them,” Mr. Schumer said. “My guess is you have about a 5 percent chance. None of your pollsters disagree with me.”

Only twice did Mr. Biden interrupt to ask a question, and both times it was: “Do you really think Kamala can win?”

As we now know, Kamala (thank God) did not win, and Joe Biden is still delusionally disconnected and mentally degraded enough to believe that he could have won, and that she could have won. He still thinks that because he’s now so forgetful that he probably cannot remember his meeting with Schumer. Does Jill have to tell him every morning that his presidency is coming to an end? Once they leave the White House, is she going to just let him think he is still president, just on vacation?

The Free Press released this clip of an interview of Speaker Mike Johnson by Bari Weiss, and it is both indicative of the bubble that Joe Biden lives in, and deeply frightening.

EXCLUSIVE: @SpeakerJohnson tells @BariWeiss that President Biden hasn’t been in charge for a while.

In January 2024, when Johnson and Biden were alone in the Oval Office, the president couldn’t recall an important executive order he had signed just three weeks earlier.

Johnson… pic.twitter.com/OEbLxKBQBF

— The Free Press (@TheFP) January 18, 2025

Joe Biden is a meat puppet controlled by Jill and his aides. They literally could put anything in front of him and he would have signed it, without question. While Biden may have had some lucid moments, it’s clear that he had become Ron Burgundy in front of the teleprompter (he would read anything on it), and a frail, decrepit old man behind the scenes. For the last four years, the nation has been controlled by unelected aides and bureaucrats, along with political elites and Jill Biden. And every single person who had access to Joe Biden KNEW IT. I have a feeling that when the tell-all books begin to be published, we are going to be even more horrified – and relieved that the nation survived the last four years.

Featured image: original Victory Girls art by Darleen Click