The years-long, wide-reaching cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline is reaching a fever pitch, and the time

Biden, now 82, bowed out of the race on July 21 following a Democratic Party revolt over his disastrous performance in a June 27 debate against former — and future — President Donald

Democrats are tired of Joe Biden saying he would have won. What they want, they say, is for the former president to admit to his part in the party’s 2024 loss to Donald Trump.

Five people were running the country,” a political insider told the authors of the new book Original Sin. “And Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.”

The effort was formalized as a White House task force, with Biden in charge. After a few years out of office, Biden re-entered politics to campaign against Trump in 2020. The heartache from Beau’s death was never far from the surface though. His eldest son had been Delaware’s attorney general and often viewed as Biden’s political successor.

The appearances have also allowed Biden to defend his own legacy at a time when Trump frequently blames him by name, many Democrats remain frustrated that he took so long to end his 2024 campaign and a pair of recent books assert that Biden’s team hid his cognitive decline at the end of his presidency.

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, according to a Sunday statement from his personal office. | Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer,

Political leaders from across parties in the U.S. extended their sympathies to Democratic former President Joe Biden, 82, after his office announced Sunday that he was diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said it’s “obvious now” that former President Biden “was not in a condition” to run for reelection, following new reporting from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book is an investigative account of loyalists and family members who shielded the diminished president from full public view.