That rumbling noise coming out of Washington is the sound of other shoes dropping in the saga of the Amazing Shrinking Biden Presidency with the release of “Original Sin” — the latest in what will likely be a series of behind-the-scenes tell-alls about the former president’s cognitive and physical decline in office and the high-level efforts to cover it up.

Adding fuel to the fire are interviews with former aides, party operatives and financial donors who now find it politically safe to say that in meeting Biden they were shocked — shocked! — by his sad condition. Even his ever-cautious Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who regularly dismissed questions about Biden’s mental capacity, now concedes that “maybe” it wasn’t a good idea for him to run for reelection.

But the sad fact is that presidential medical cover-ups are almost as old as the republic. Many of American leaders have suffered potentially crippling health problems that could have incapacitated them in a crisis. To one extent or another, they were kept from the public.

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