Biden’s Cognitive Decline Sparks Growing Alarm Among Washington Insiders

A con­cern­ing report from the Wall Street Jour­nal has shed light on the grow­ing wor­ries among high-rank­ing offi­cials in Wash­ing­ton regard­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s cog­ni­tive decline. 

Dozens of Repub­li­can and Demo­c­ra­t­ic law­mak­ers and staffers have come for­ward to describe the 81-year-old pres­i­dent as often incom­pre­hen­si­ble and reg­u­lar­ly freez­ing up dur­ing crit­i­cal meetings.

The report, titled “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slip­ping,” paints a trou­bling pic­ture of a pres­i­dent who has become con­sid­er­ably slow­er and less engaged com­pared to his ear­li­er days in office.

Sources cit­ed in the piece detailed instances where Biden appeared to have for­got­ten key details of his own poli­cies, strug­gled to hear and under­stand con­ver­sa­tions, and deferred most dis­cus­sions to oth­er offi­cials in the room.

One par­tic­u­lar­ly con­cern­ing inci­dent involved a meet­ing with Repub­li­can Con­gress­man Mike John­son, where Biden report­ed­ly claimed a new admin­is­tra­tion ener­gy pol­i­cy was only a study, despite it already being in effect. This alarmed those present, giv­en the U.S. involve­ment in two con­flicts that risk esca­lat­ing to World War-lev­el tensions.

The report also high­light­ed oth­er instances of Biden’s ver­bal flubs and mem­o­ry laps­es, includ­ing mix­ing up the names of Russ­ian dis­si­dent Alex­ei Naval­ny’s wid­ow and a Ger­man chan­cel­lor who died in 2017, as well as con­fus­ing the lead­ers of Egypt and Mexico.

While the White House has dis­missed many of the accounts as polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed, the grow­ing num­ber of respect­ed fig­ures express­ing con­cerns about the pres­i­den­t’s cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties has raised seri­ous ques­tions about his fit­ness to lead, espe­cial­ly as he gears up for a poten­tial 2024 rematch against the famous­ly can­did Don­ald Trump.

As the nation approach­es a piv­otal elec­tion year, the rev­e­la­tions from this WSJ report are like­ly to increase the scruti­ny on Biden’s men­tal acu­ity and could have sig­nif­i­cant impli­ca­tions for the future of his pres­i­den­cy and the Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty’s polit­i­cal fortunes.