By Chuck Warren
The new book by Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper has revived the story of Biden’s cognitive problems, compounded by the revelation about his cancer.
Aside from The Wall Street Journal, Thompson was a rare reporter in the mainstream media reporting on this issue, and he deserves some credit, but Tapper deserves scorn because he was part of the cover-up himself. Worse, this is nothing new. In fact, this is the fourth time something like this has happened.
We’ve had nine Democratic presidents between 1912 and 2025: Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
Four of them were ill, and the press knowingly covered it up for them: Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Joe Biden. Four out of nine.
Wilson had a stroke in 1919 and was incapacitated.
Roosevelt had polio and became paralyzed. Around 1940, his health began to decline due to other illnesses, and he became seriously ill in 1944. Yet the press never reported on any of his health problems, and it never published any photo of him in a wheelchair. The American people didn’t know that the president was ill until he died in 1945.
Kennedy had Addison’s disease. Again, it was never reported on, and nobody was aware of his illness.
All of these had serious ramifications.
Until the end of Wilson’s presidency, his wife Edith ran the country, forging her husband’s signature, and the press would not report on it. Essentially, there was a coup d’état in America with someone not elected extrajudicially running the federal government.
Roosevelt died in the middle of World War II. Had he died a few months earlier, his penultimate vice president, Henry Wallace, would have become president, and Wallace was a pro—Soviet Union communist. The world should thank its luck that Roosevelt lasted as long as he did, not to have a Josef Stalin fanboy as the president of the United States. But it was left to luck because the press wouldn’t do its job.
JFK’s Addison’s disease, which the press hid from us, almost led to a nuclear war. During the Vienna Summit, Khrushchev thought that Kennedy was too weak to stand up to the Soviet Union. This triggered the Berlin Crisis and eventually caused the Cuban Missile Crisis. Even JFK admitted to that. He told his aide after the meeting that Khrushchev “beat the shit out of me.” Kennedy’s poor performance during the summit was because of his secret illness. He had just received his daily cocktail of medications, causing him to be high during his meeting with Khrushchev.
It took decades for the effects of these press cover-ups to be known because historians had to study them. Biden left the world on fire and an economy that belonged in the dumpster. How much did these have to do with his illness? Was he making the decisions? We know that his wife Jill channeled her Edith Wilson and even attended a cabinet meeting. Was she the acting president? Was there an acting president? Who was making decisions?
The press will not do its job to tell us. And we do not have time for historians to do it. Republicans in Congress should investigate this immediately to get to the bottom of two things:
1. How Biden’s health affected the business of government;
2. The collusion between the administration and the press to cover up his health for partisan reasons.
One of the closest people to Biden is his White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who was probably running national security. Sullivan’s wife is also Maggie Goodlander, congresswoman from New Hampshire.
Of course, she is going to protect her husband, but also, it complicates things: What did her husband tell her about the president’s infirmities?
This is a greater and more dangerous scandal than Watergate, and the left wants to move on from it. Americans deserve better.
It is likely that we are still dealing with its results in Ukraine and the Middle East. We deserve to know, and the culprits must be held accountable.
Note: the opinions expressed herein are those of Chuck Warren only and not his co-host Sam Stone or Breaking Battlegrounds’ staff.