Biden cover-up is one of the greatest scandals in presidential history

Published May 21, 2025 8:00am ET



We’ve become so accustomed to corruption in our politics that it probably sounds hyperbolic to contend that any one scandal is perhaps the biggest in American history. But the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental and physical deterioration is up there. It involved government officials and pliant press propping up a cancer-ridden man who was clearly unable to perform the most rudimentary tasks of the most important job in the world. 

If Biden had skipped the presidential debate with Donald Trump, as many Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), urged him to do, White House lackeys and the obliging media would have continued concealing the president’s deteriorating condition. They, no doubt, would have done it all the way to Election Day and into his second term, should Biden have won. 

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