What Biden didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it

Published May 21, 2025 6:00am ET



In the half-century since Watergate, political scandals have been given the suffix “gate” to suggest importance, real or ludicrous. Think “Irangate,” “Bridgegate,” or “Pizzagate.”

But the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s physical and mental collapse by White House officials and lickspittles in left-liberal news media won’t fit. His sleepwalking presidency, imploding brain function, mumbling rhetoric, stumbling gait, and catastrophically dwindling health, plus the conspiracy to conceal them, cannot be covered by one little tag.

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