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Biden's Cognitive Decline: Aides, Obama's Network, and the Debate That Said It All
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Kennedy is blunt: everyone on Capitol Hill knew what was going on with President Biden. A small group of 4–5 senior aides — with connections reaching back to Obama's network — were making the major decisions, effectively governing in Biden's name while keeping his decline hidden from the public. 'They were lying to the American people.' The presidential debate was the moment the curtain dropped. Kennedy was in Wyoming watching on television and was, in his words, 'speechless' — a genuinely rare phenomenon. Theo frames the entire episode as elder abuse, noting that in many cultures elders are brought back into the home and protected, not propped up in positions of immense stress. Kennedy agrees, invoking Kissinger: 'Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.' Biden's aides had enormous derivative power and financial interest in maintaining it.
