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The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden

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Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi’s latest report is a quietly harrowing account of both a Biden fundraiser last weekend and her experience over the last several years — but especially the last several months — covering a politician who is suffering the inevitable effects of age. She looks hard at why the June 27 debate against Trump came as a shock to much of the nation. It was not a shock to her, because she had been hearing, and reporting on, recent rumblings among Biden’s elite supporters that he had fallen off significantly from even a year or two ago. She met him earlier this year and noticed a clear difference. She doesn’t offer solutions, but she makes it clear the problem had been building for some time.

—Jebediah Reed, editor, Intelligencer

The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters.

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