Biden may be out of office, but the so-called journalists who concealed his decline remain employed.
Newly released audio of former President Joe Biden shows him struggling to remember names and dates and losing his train of thought during 2016 and 2017 interviews. But the most damning part about the audio tapes is that the propagandists masquerading as journalists who spent four years concealing his decline are still employed.
The Oversight Project, a government watchdog group, fought for more than two years to get the tapes released. The tapes and transcripts cover Biden’s conversations with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, between 2016 and 2017. These tapes were used by Special Counsel Robert Hur during his investigation into whether Biden mishandled classified information.
Ultimately Hur found “Biden’s memory was significantly limited” during both the interviews with Zwonitzer and Hur himself. Hur also concluded that “Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”
The newly released tapes show Biden struggling to recall the names of two of his former economic advisers in April of 2017: “including the two guys who I think were with me, were — oh, God. The guy at Princeton now. Economist. Good guy, was our, our chief economic advisor. Not Kaufman. I’ll think of his name.” Biden later said: “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.”
In another instance Biden could not recall the date of a memorial service for a fallen service member: “I think I went to that memorial service in Wilmington. It says [REDACTED] December the 4th, but I don’t — I know what this means. Memorial service — [REDACTED] gets names really f–ed up,” Biden said.
“So it says memorial service for [REDACTED]. I don’t think her name was [REDACTED]. Or I forget [REDACTED].”
In another instance Biden couldn’t recall what he was going to say.
“What was I going to ask you?” Biden said. “Oh, gosh. I, I can’t think of what it is.”
These recordings don’t just add additional proof of Biden’s cognitive decline; they also prove that the problem was noticeable before Biden reentered the White House in 2021. Biden only continued to decline, and Americans watched it unfold. Yet Democrats and legacy media assured Americans repeatedly that Biden’s cognitive decline, which was on full display during the 2024 debate, was a sudden development rather than the culmination of years of warning signs.
The Biden administration understood how politically damaging his decline was, with Hur having testified that the White House urged him to alter the “references to the president’s poor memory” in his report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Hur also testified that Zwonitzer “attempted to destroy evidence following Hur’s appointment to investigate the mishandling of classified information,” as The Federalist reported.
But White House officials could not have kept up the deception on their own. They needed an accomplice willing to tell Americans not to believe what they could hear and see. That accomplice? The propaganda press.
Days before the infamous debate, The New York Times had a report that read: “How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts.” The Times’ editorial page had an essay entitled “I’m a Neuroscientist. We’re Thinking About Biden’s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way.”
In one NBC News story, the subhead read: “Forgetting the names of acquaintances or having difficulty remembering dates from the past doesn’t affect decision-making or judgment, brain experts say.”
MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough said in March of 2024, “This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second.” His message for viewers who didn’t agree? “Eff you if you can’t handle the truth.”
Days before the 2024 debate, Oliver Darcy wrote for CNN: “Right-wing media figures are desperately pushing conspiracy theories about Biden ahead of the debate.” The “conspiracy theories” in question were that Biden is a “senile, mentally incapacitated elderly man who cannot remember what he had for breakfast, let alone run the federal government.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper accused Lara Trump of “mocking his stutter” in one of his many instances defending Biden’s cognitive status.
“I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline. … Plenty of people have diagnosed your father from afar, and I’m sure it offends you, your father-in-law.”
Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson tried to rehabilitate their propagandist status after Biden dropped out of the presidential race and Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election by releasing a book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, It’s Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, which sought to explain how the story was “missed.” In fact, Thompson himself later claimed he “missed a lot of this story.”
But the story was never missed, nor was the media fooled. It was Thompson who brushed off Biden ending his speech on gun control with “God Save the Queen, man” as “possible” sarcasm.
“Biden’s weird phrases are sometimes weaponized by the GOP to insinuate the 80-year-old president is in mental decline,” Thompson said. “But Biden has been using these unique phrases for years — even as some of his aides remain confused by their meaning.”
Yet Thompson apparently is the guy to trust about Biden’s decline and the cover-up? He was part of the cover-up, much like his co-author Tapper, and most every left-wing outlet.
And now these newly released audio recordings once again prove there was absolutely no way anyone could truthfully pretend that Biden’s decline came on suddenly at the time of the debate. His memory problems were there even before he became president and became increasingly impossible to ignore while in office. Yet they were denied by Democrats and their propaganda press allies until they needed Biden out of office.
Biden may be out of office, but the so-called journalists who concealed his decline remain employed, covering politics “objectively” as if they all didn’t partake in one of the greatest scandals in American history.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/29/craziest-part-of-new-biden-tapes-is-that-media-who-covered-for-him-still-have-jobs/
