WHO ENABLED BIDEN? A CASE STUDY. On June 4, the Wall Street Journal published a story headlined, “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping.” Based on interviews with 45 people, the article reported that associates described President Joe Biden as showing signs of age, “a president who appears slower now, someone who has both good moments and bad ones.”

The Wall Street Journal described a January White House meeting with congressional leaders on Ukraine policy in which Biden “spoke so softly at times that some participants struggled to hear him, according to five people familiar with the meeting. He read from notes to make obvious points, paused for extended periods and sometimes closed his eyes for so long that some in the room wondered whether he had tuned out.” The next month, meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), the Wall Street Journal said, “Johnson worried that the president’s memory had slipped about the details of his own policy.”