Before we get too deep into the new year, let’s revisit one of the big stories of 2024 — a story most of the mainstream media apparently didn’t deem newsworthy.

Throughout most of his presidency, Joe Biden’s mental sharpness was in decline. More than once, we saw news clips of him wandering off — and heard the White House tell the American people not to believe what our eyes were showing us, but rather to believe what Biden’s PR machine was telling us.

Even after his disastrous debate performance in late June, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured the American people that Joe Biden was “as sharp as ever.”

She wasn’t alone. Despite his mental decline, Biden’s family kept his condition from the public. So did his close friends, who must have known. Top Democrats told us he was mentally fit, even after the Wall Street Journal reported in early June that sources told the paper that behind the scenes the president had noticeably slowed down.

All of them — his family, his friends, his political allies — put their personal or their perceived party interests over those of the American people.

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