The former White House doctor Ronny Jackson was adamant. ‘I am concerned he does not have the mental capacity, the cognitive ability, to serve as Commander-in-Chief and Head of State’.
He was talking about Joe Biden not yesterday but four years ago, before Biden became President.
President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris, who is likely to be his replacement in the race against Donald Trump
Jackson, a retired U.S. navy rear admiral, was appointed by George W. Bush and went on to serve as official physician to Presidents Obama and Trump.
He had observed Biden on the campaign trail in 2019 and concluded that he was already a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.
Two years later, after the shameful scuttle from Kabul, Biden went missing for six days, along with his Vice President Kamala Harris.
The only photograph of the President showed him hunkered down at his Camp David rural retreat, staring at an array of giant TV screens. He kept pressing the remote control, hoping for a different result, like the simpleton Chauncey Gardiner, who rises to become a presidential adviser in the Peter Sellers movie Being There.
Jackson tweeted: ‘If he’s not mentally capable of handling the crisis, he needs to resign IMMEDIATELY.’
Back then, I dubbed Biden and Harris ‘Lord and Lady Gaga’.
Subsequently, in March, Biden spent two days being interviewed by a special prosecutor Robert Hur, appointed to investigate Sleepy Joe hoarding classified documents in his garage at home – the same alleged crime which led to the military-style raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound.
Hur concluded that although Biden had a case to answer, there was no point in bringing charges since he was too senile to stand trial. Any jury would find him mentally incompetent.
According to Hur, Biden’s memory was already fading when his ghostwriter was writing his autobiography in 2017 — three years before he ran for President.
The headline on this column read: ‘If Biden’s mentally unfit to stand trial, he’s mentally unfit to be President.’
Fast forward five months and Donald Trump and others are demanding that Biden resigns the Presidency immediately.
If a week is a long time in politics, then the nine days since Trump survived an assassination attempt feels like a lifetime. The circus hasn’t so much moved on as sent in the clowns.
Gone is the more reflective Trump seen at the Republican National Convention. Back is the savage attack dog. It’s politics in the raw as usual. Yesterday, Trump even claimed that Biden never had Covid.
Certainly Biden’s positive test was convenient, as the pressure mounting on him to withdraw from the race reached critical mass.
When the going gets tough, Joe goes missing — whether during the Afghan withdrawal or the 2020 election campaign, which he spent hiding in his basement in Delaware, using the pandemic as an excuse.
Trump posted on his Truth Social account: ‘Who is running our Country right now? It’s not Crooked Joe, he has no idea where he is.’ And Trump isn’t the only one asking who is in charge of the clattering train. So are millions of Americans, who have no idea who is making the decisions at the White House.
It isn’t Biden and certainly isn’t Kamala Harris.
The real scandal here is not only that Biden is no longer fit to be President. The truth is he never was.
If Hur is to be believed, it was obvious Joe wasn’t playing with a full deck seven years ago. Yet despite White House physician Jackson’s repeated warnings about his unfitness for office and a catalogue of blunders and brain-freezes as long as Interstate 95, the Democrats still chose him as their candidate.
Biden got the nod because he was seen as the only candidate who could stop Hard Left headbanger Bernie Sanders — America’s answer to Jeremy Corbyn — and beat the hated Trump.
He hadn’t run in 2016 when he should have been the presumptive nominee because Barack Obama declined to endorse him, despite Biden being his Veep for eight years. What did Obama know that America didn’t?
Those close to Biden, such as Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer must have known he was away with the fairies. But they left him in place cynically to preserve their own power base.
Only when it became apparent, after that disastrous first debate three weeks ago, that Trump was nailed on not only to win the White House but would deliver a Republican landslide in both the Senate and the House of Representatives did they deliver the coup de grace.
Et tu, Nancy?
I’ve always believed the Democrats would dump Biden before the election. But why did they leave it so late? Why was he allowed to win the nomination for a second term unopposed?
Having propped up Lord Gaga for the past three and a half years they’re now turning to Lady Gaga for their salvation. I can only conclude they must have a death wish.
Former White House doctor Ronny Jackson, who is the U.S. representative of Texas’s 13th congressional district
They are now rallying round Kamala, backed by the Democrat cheerleaders in the mainstream media who have been shamefully complicit in covering up Biden’s decline.
She’s already being built up as Queen Kamala, the natural successor, a groundbreaking candidate, a competent administrator and exciting orator.
This flies in the face of all the evidence, especially a poll last year which declared her the worst VP in living memory. Her track record is disastrous to say the least.
The only serious job she was given was tackling illegal immigration. How’s that working out, then? On her watch, more than seven million migrants and counting have crossed America’s southern border.
When she was asked why she hadn’t visited the border three months into her job, she replied bizarrely: ‘Well, I haven’t been to Europe either.’
This is just one of her incomprehensible word salad statements and associated gaffes and giggles.
Harris is continuity Joe Biden in waiting. She’s been at his side for all his major mistakes and must also have been well aware of his mental incapacity.
Biden has endorsed his Veep, but this is more of a calculated ‘screw you’ to Pelosi and Schumer and all those who he believes stabbed him in the back than a vote of confidence in Kamala.
It’s reported he had his doubts about Harris all along and only picked her because she ticked the ‘black’ and ‘female’ boxes and didn’t present a threat to him.
If she emerges victorious, it will be conclusive evidence of the Democrats’ descent into the divisive politics of identity, where — to paraphrase Martin Luther King — a Presidential candidate can now be chosen not on the content of her character of her ability to do the job but on the colour of her skin and her gender.
Who would she choose as her running mate? More pertinently, who would want to be Kamala’s VP? Governors Newsom and Whitmer, of California and Michigan, would be well advised to keep their powder dry until 2028. Why go off half-cock against a resurgent Trump/Vance ticket?
Perhaps Kamala could plump for openly gay transport secretary Pete Buttigieg. Crazy name, crazy guy. A black woman/gay man combo would have Democratic activists salivating. How it would play in the Bible Belt and the bars of Middle America is a whole different question.
The media is currently attempting to change the narrative around the election, claiming Trump would find it much harder to beat Harris, especially if she becomes the incumbent, even though polls show her trailing him in all the key battleground states such as Michigan.
In calling on Biden to pass the Oval Office to Harris, they’re warning: ‘Be careful what you wish for, Donald.’
These are the same sycophants who were still reassuring Americans that Biden was in great shape and should be given another four years.
Trump is confident he’ll beat whoever they run against him, and the polls back him up.
The media has been claiming that Donald Trump, seen here accepting the nomination for President at the Republican National Convention, would find it much harder to beat Kamala Harris
Meanwhile, the wider world looks on in horror. The only winners are Moscow, Pyongyang, Tehran and Beijing.
On Sunday, in the run-up to Biden’s announcement, Fox News was carrying two breaking news stories. One was about the Iranian-backed Houthis launching a rocket attack on an Israeli oil refinery, under the nose of American forces in the region to deter attacks on Western shipping.
The other concentrated on an intelligence report claiming that China was about to launch an imminent invasion of Taiwan, which manufactures the lion’s share of all the silicon chips on the planet.
If China monopolises the manufacture and then limits the distribution of chips vital for IT and AI technology, the Microsoft/CloudStrike meltdown will be but a small taste of things to come.
Meanwhile, America, the last bulwark against global tyranny, has turned in on itself.
With either Biden or Kamala in the White House, the world will become an even more dangerous place. You can’t imagine Putin or Xi trembling in their loafers at the prospect of President Harris.
The future of not just America but the entire Free World is at stake.
Biden is dead man walking, even though he has difficulty putting one foot in front of the other.
But just because Lady Gaga is capable of running for office, it doesn’t mean she’s capable of running the country. She isn’t.