America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
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The Forgotten Town: East Palestine's Catastrophe Ignored by Biden
East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment (Getty Images)
A catastrophic train derailment has unleashed toxic fumes and pollutants into the air and water of East Palestine, Ohio, leaving the town's inhabitants reeling with uncertainty about their future. The once-thriving community now stands in a state of disarray, with residents left wondering whether they will face long-term health consequences and whether their town will ever be the same again.
Despite the severity of the situation, weeks after the disaster, President Joe Biden has failed to visit. To make matters worse, he decided to instead visit Ukraine. This move has only served to exacerbate the sense of betrayal felt by the people of East Palestine. With this move, he has turned the concept of "America first" on its head, treating Americans last, and leaving many Americans feeling as if they are last in line for his attention and concern.
The people of East Palestine are not political pawns to be ignored or overlooked. They are hardworking citizens who deserve compassion, empathy and a strong leader who will take their concerns seriously. Rural America has been hit hard in recent years, and East Palestine is no different. It is time for our elected officials to prioritize the needs of all Americans, regardless of their location or background, and work toward creating a brighter future for everyone.
East Palestine is a town that has endured its fair share of challenges. Once a bustling community centered around coal mining, the town has been dealt a severe blow by the industry's decline. Job losses and economic hardship have become a way of life for many residents, despite the valiant efforts of local leaders to attract fresh investment and industries. Compounding the town's woes is the opioid epidemic, which has wreaked havoc on the lives of many, leaving them struggling with addiction and the resulting social and economic consequences.
Despite the ongoing struggles of East Palestine, U.S. politicians, including Biden, have largely turned a blind eye to this community. While the president has taken steps to address the concerns of rural America through initiatives such as the American Jobs Plan and the Rural Partnership Program, he has neglected the specific needs of communities like East Palestine, and with his visit to Ukraine, he has cemented the idea in the heads of rural Americans that they will always be ignored and treated as subhuman because their votes count little in presidential elections.
To be clear, the conflict in Ukraine is a pressing issue that demands attention and engagement from the United States.
However, it is equally vital that we do not overlook the struggles of East Palestine and other similar communities. The two issues are interrelated, as the decline of traditional sectors like coal mining in the United States is linked to global economic trends and the shift toward alternative forms of energy production. By ignoring the challenges faced by communities like East Palestine, the president risks further entrenching the economic disparities that are driving much of the discontent and division in the country.
Furthermore, the disregard for communities like East Palestine prompts legitimate questions about the president's dedication to achieving his stated aim of unifying the country. If the administration remains preoccupied with global issues and geopolitical concerns at the expense of the needs of rural and working-class Americans, it risks further heightening the feelings of estrangement and frustration that have prompted many voters to embrace populist and nationalist movements.
This is not to suggest that the administration should ignore international issues but instead that it needs to balance these concerns with a commitment to domestic issues and the needs of all Americans.
Biden's choice to overlook the environmental catastrophe taking place in East Palestine during his recent visit to Ukraine is a worrisome occurrence that raises significant concerns about his priorities and dedication to the welfare of all Americans.
While the conflict in Ukraine is a crucial issue, the plight of rural and working-class communities in the United States must not be ignored. To confront the economic inequalities that are fueling much of the unrest and polarization in our country, the administration must prioritize the needs of all Americans, including those in disregarded and struggling communities like East Palestine.
The sentiment among many rural Americans that they are being overlooked and ignored by Democrats remains prevalent. The perceived lack of attention from the Biden administration, highlighted by missteps from Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to the president himself, reinforces the sense of neglect felt by many in these communities. While Biden is in Ukraine, former President Donald Trump is in East Palestine showcasing the care and attention a leader should exemplify during a major disaster such as this.
As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Biden's actions risk conveying the impression that he is out of touch with and unsympathetic toward struggling Americans.
This perception could alienate swing voters who are already discontented with the direction of the country. The people of East Palestine are in urgent need of assistance, and it is the responsibility of the federal government to collaborate with state and local authorities to provide not only the necessary support and relief to alleviate the current crisis but also a sign of empathy and care by our elected officials to show that they care more about them than they do about their votes.
Sen. JD Vance Urges Feds to 'Make Up' for Slow Response to East Palestine Contamination
Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) greets former President Donald Trump during an event at the East Palestine Fire Department in Ohio, on February 22, 2023. (Photo by REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Three weeks after a train derailment left East Palestine, Ohio contaminated with toxic chemicals, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg finally arrived there this morning, to hear from officials on the ground -- and maybe to hear from the furious and frightened residents.
His visit comes one day after former President Donald Trump went to East Palestine to commiserate with the town's people.
"In too many cases, your goodness and perseverance were met with indifference and betrayal,” Trump said, referring to the Biden administration's slow response to the disaster.
"Happy to discuss timing of our Ohio visit," Buttigieg tweeted on Wednesday. "[B]ut starting to think some in Washington want that to be the main focus so that there aren’t too many questions about rail safety regulation, who is for and who is against. We will hold the line on railroad safety and accountability."
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said the response of Buttigieg and the entire Biden administration has been "a day late and a dollar short."
"But there is a lot that they can do to make up for this and ensure that East Palestine isn't forgotten into the future. The devastation in this community, you're going to have some people staying but some people trying to leave.
“You're going to have some businesses that have been destroyed by this, not through any fault of their own. Not because they failed to sell a good product but because of this disaster and the effect that it’s had on the community.
"So we're going to have to take care of this community. We're going to have to ensure that what happened at the train crash almost three weeks ago doesn't destroy this town. And like the mayor said, we're going to have to stay on top of federal officials and Norfolk Southern to make sure that people are safe. I think that those are the important things that we have to do.
"I'm certainly going to stay on top of it. I know a lot of people are as well."
Vance said a lot of people don't trust their government, and "rightfully so, after the last couple of years when they really screwed up the COVID situation."
"When you have poisonous soil in East Palestine, the cleanup is not yet finished. When you have people seeing dead fish and dead crawdads in their water, they have every right to be concerned about this.
"And unfortunately, they don't think the government's listening to them -- the Biden administration, they don't feel like Norfolk Southern is listening to them.
“And we've got to stay on top of people to make sure that the folks of East Palestine are not forgotten. That, to me, is the number one job.
"You heard the mayor said, the safety of the residents is what we have to care about. Not just tomorrow but over the next couple of years. And their own government they don't feel like is listening to them.”
East Palestine Train Disaster Killed More than 43,000 Aquatic Animals, Ohio Agency Says
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) estimates more than 43,000 fish and other aquatic animals have died as a result of the train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month.
ODNR director Mary Mertz announced Thursday that roughly 38,222 minnows and about 5,550 other aquatic animals — such as small fish, crayfish, amphibians, and macroinvertebrates — were killed in the 5-mile span of waterway from the derailment site.
“Although dead aquatic species still remain in the impacted waterways, the entirety of the impact to the aquatic life is believed to have occurred in the first 24-hours after the derailment,” the ODNR stated.
Mertz added that “these small fish are all believed to have been killed immediately after the derailment.”
The agency also said that there is “no immediate threat” to aquatic life in East Palestine’s Leslie Run creek, and that live fish have actually returned to the waterways.
Mertz explained that the ODNR collected their samples over the course of two days — February 6 and 7 — and that “following collection, EnviroScience counted, identified, measured, and arranged disposal of the aquatic species to limit impact to other wildlife that might feed on affected aquatic species.”
The ODNR director added that investigators applied a science-based calculation, based on observations of a sample of 2,938 aquatic animals.
“Since then, additional work has been completed to remove more dead fish from the water, although that removal is not part of the survey,” Mertz noted.
“The investigation has thus far concluded that of the 7-and-a-half-mile impacted area, the species were killed over a 5-mile span,” the ODNR director added.
Mertz also noted that officers searched for additional dead aquatic wildlife “beyond the impacted waterways” in the days that followed — such as the Ohio River down through Jefferson County and at the Cumberland lock and dam — and did not find any dead aquatic animals.
The ODNR director added that the agency is currently waiting for test results on non-aquatic animals, which include birds and opossums.
“We do not believe any of these animals were made sick by the train derailment, but we have submitted those specimens to the Ohio Department of Agriculture and will wait for those test results before making that judgement,” Mertz said.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the White House are pointing fingers at everyone but themselves as they defend the Biden administration's handling of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Buttigieg visited East Palestine on Thursday amid blistering criticism of his absenteeism in the three weeks since a train derailed and "basically nuked" the town with toxic chemicals. Speaking to reporters near the crash site, Buttigieg blamed Congress, the Trump administration, rail industry lobbyists, and the train's operator, Norfolk Southern, for the crash. Buttigieg also blamed his partners at the National Transportation Safety Board for his delayed response in publicly addressing the crisis.
He then closed the press conference with an impassioned plea to his critics to stop playing politics with the disaster.
"The country should be wrapping their arms around the people of East Palestine, not as a political football, not as an ideological flashpoint, not as a gotcha moment," said Buttigieg, who didn't mention the crisis during 23 media interviews he conducted in the 10 days after the derailment, according to Politico.
The East Palestine train derailment is the latest disaster to unfold on Buttigieg's watch. The beleaguered transportation secretary was on paid child leave and "mostly offline" during the 2021 supply chain crisis. He also presided over the airline industry as tens of thousands of flights were canceled, stranding passengers during the 2022 holidays. Buttigieg's track record has led critics to question whether it was prudent of Biden to appoint the small-town mayor with presidential aspirations to lead the transportation department.
Buttigieg conceded Thursday that he should have spoken sooner about the crisis in East Palestine, but he said he was just following the norm set by his predecessors by letting the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the independent federal agency responsible for investigating civil transportation accidents, take the lead on the matter.
"What I tried to do is balance two things—my desire to be involved and engaged and on the ground, which is how I am generally wired to act, and my desire to follow the norm of transportation secretaries, allowing NTSB to really lead the initial stages of the public-facing work," Buttigieg said.
The NTSB on Thursday issued a preliminary report that found an overheated wheel bearing caused the derailment. NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, a Biden appointee, said the train was already in the process of braking when it derailed.
Still, Buttigieg insisted on blaming the Trump administration and rail lobbyists for scrapping rules that would have required new electric braking technology on trains carrying large quantities of hazardous materials.
"This is their entire business model," Buttigieg said at Thursday's press conference. "In the last few years, they have gone into a business model that is about cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting. And what has happened is it's a concern from a safety perspective."
The rule in question, which the Biden administration has thus far failed to reinstate, would not have applied to the derailed train. Homendy warned on Feb. 16 that anyone seeking to connect the derailment to the regulation is guilty of "spreading misinformation."
The White House has taken Buttigieg's argument a step further and demanded that Republicans apologize to East Palestine residents for "selling them out to rail industry lobbyists" by scrapping the braking rule.
Buttigieg has also mischaracterized an October 2021 letter signed by Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) that questioned why the Federal Railroad Administration was allowing automated track inspection procedures to expire. Rubio called for Buttigieg to be fired for wrongfully characterizing the letter, which called for more track inspections, as a call for deregulation.
"He is an incompetent who is focused solely on his fantasies about his political future & needs to be fired," Rubio said Tuesday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended Buttigieg on Thursday, saying the attacks against the transportation secretary are "pure politics."
In private, some Democrats say that Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan should be the one facing the music in the aftermath of the chemical spill.
"There's a plume, and there's a chemical spill. If anyone should have been there right away, it's Regan," an unnamed senior Democrat toldPolitico. "But he's not a political target. And so what's happened here is they've picked a political target. And they've just beaten that drum as often as they can, despite facts."
Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg went to East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 23 in a major concession to the Make America Great Again movement. Buttigieg’s trip came three weeks after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in the town of fewer than 5,000 residents, releasing hazardous materials and forcing a brief evacuation on both sides of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.
No one died, people are back home, the Environmental Protection Agency says the air and water are safe, and it’s unusual for a transportation secretary to visit the site of a trainwreck. Yet a savvy MAGA pressure campaign, including an onsite inspection by former president Donald Trump earlier in the week, left Buttigieg no choice. Reluctantly, he traveled to Columbiana County, Ohio, where Trump won in 2020 by 45 points. He donned a hard hat and goggles. And he tried to convey sympathy toward the East Palestinians.
The episode highlighted a dilemma for Buttigieg’s party: The Democrats are led by an 80-year-old president with no clear successor. And while Joe Biden plans to run for reelection, a twist of fate could upend the 2024 race and send Democrats scrambling to enter a primary. The outcome would be unpredictable and potentially unbearable.
Biden is the one person who’s defeated Trump. The rising stars in his party, such as Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, Maryland governor Wes Moore, Senator Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.), and Representative Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.), aren’t ready for national campaigns. The Democratic bench is filled with retreads—Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—and duds.
Like Buttigieg. He’s immensely overrated. His glib, know-it-all style may impress some in the media, but his crisis management skills are awful. In 2021 he went on paternity leave despite supply chain bottlenecks and negotiations over the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In the summer of 2022 he went on vacation to Portugal as rail workers threatened to strike. He was out of his depth last December when Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights and scrambled holiday travel plans. In January the Federal Aviation Administration halted air traffic due to a computer glitch. Buttigieg was caught unawares.
His handling of the East Palestine train disaster was just as sloppy and ineffectual. For more than a week, Buttigieg said nothing on the crash, while complaining about the demographics of construction workers. Then he blamed the Trump administration for lessening regulations on rail carriers. Next, he said train derailments happen often, but East Palestine has been getting the attention. Finally, he took a hard line on Norfolk Southern and relented to demands that he go to Ohio.
His shifting responses played right into the hands of Trump, Senator J.D. Vance (R., Ohio), and television host Tucker Carlson. They turned East Palestine into a conservative version of Flint, Michigan, and Jackson, Mississippi—impoverished and neglected communities whose populations suffer from environmental contamination.
Buttigieg’s aloof sensibility became evidence that the Biden administration is more interested in the goings-on in Ukraine than in what’s happening at home. And his eventual capitulation to MAGA's demands strengthened the perception that his critics were right. Buttigieg might have been the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. But East Palestine mayor Trent Conaway has much better political instincts.
If you compare him with Kamala Harris, though, Buttigieg is another FDR. The vice president hasn’t recovered from a devastating Feb. 6 New York Times story on the "painful reality" that she has squandered her political future. "Even some Democrats whom her own advisers referred reporters to for supportive quotes confided privately that they had lost hope in her," reported Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Katie Rogers, and Peter Baker. Indeed, Democrats are so fearful that Harris will lose the 2024 or 2028 election that they are trying to figure out how to "sideline her without inflaming key Democratic constituencies that would take offense."
Best of luck.
Clumsy Kamala, pedantic Pete—without Biden the Democrats have few good options. Of the senators who have run before, Amy Klobuchar has potential, I guess, but is anyone really excited for her candidacy? The veteran governors are a mixed bag: Gavin Newsom and Jared Polis have strengths and weaknesses, and J.B. Pritzker combines the worst of progressivism and limousine liberalism (he’s a billionaire) with an absence of charm.
Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer, who won reelection last year by 12 points and gained unified control of the state legislature, probably has the brightest future. Biden must regret not selecting her as vice president in 2020. Still, Whitmer is untested.
And no, Michelle Obama is not going to descend from the rafters to save the party.
Biden remains. His approval rating has improved slightly in recent days, he’s favored to win reelection, but he is no sure bet. Trump is knocking on his door. If Biden wants to give the rising generation of Democrats more time to develop, the American standard of living needs to improve and the Ukrainian Army needs to make gains. And he and his administration need to demonstrate the proper concern for the people of East Palestine, and places like it.
If you thought Buttigieg was ill-prepared when President Joe Biden tapped the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., to oversee the country's transportation system, you're not alone. Biden himself warned about Buttigieg's experience in an attack ad during the 2020 presidential primaries.
"Joe Biden helped save the auto industry, which helped revitalize the economy of the Midwest," states a February 2020 Biden campaign ad. "Pete Buttigieg revitalized the sidewalks of downtown South Bend by laying out decorative brick."
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Like Biden and the rest of his Cabinet, Buttigieg was hired for all the wrong reasons and is thoroughly incompetent for the job he holds. Chosen for reasons other than expertise or competence, it explains the utter failure of the Biden regime on every issue that matters: national and border security, health and safety, military readiness, food and energy security, inflation, economic management, and dangerous involvement in a foreign war that may well lead to WWIII. Perhaps that is the goal, given this regime's failure on every front. Distraction from our $31T in debt? Distraction from the fact that the mandated vaccines are killing young people at a 40% excess mortality rate? Distraction from the open border that has ushered into the country five million unvetted migrants and tons of fentanyl that is killing 100K people a year? All of the above?
Nothing has pointed up Biden's and Buttigieg's ineptitude more than their lack of a response to the cataclysmic disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. The citizens of that town have been rendered "useless eaters," as Klaus Schwab's partner in crimes Yuval Harari has described the people he views as disposable. The folks in East Palestine probably voted for Trump, so they are not worth saving or helping. They have been left to breathe cancer-causing contaminated air and drink and shower with seriously tainted water, and they were told by their governor that all is safe. It's not. It is very likely that the soil and water will not be safe for decades to come.
But Biden is still in Europe, doling out American taxpayer cash to Ukrainians, a nation in which the U.S. has no national interest whatsoever. Biden's allegiance to Ukraine is all about payback for the millions of dollars that nation has funneled to the Biden family. Humbling himself before China is also payback for the millions the Biden family received from that country. The Trump-haters who stole the election put a Ukraine/China tool in the Oval Office, and all of America is suffering for their crime, as are the Ukrainian and Russian people. Biden and his fellow war-mongers do not care any more for those war-torn civilians than they do the American people, least of all those in East Palestine, Ohio.
Buttigieg as like an annoying, narcissistic character in literature. Uriah Heep, from Dickens's Great Expectations, comes to mind: self-aggrandizing, narcissistic, arrogant, and skilled at nothing, least of all the job he holds. He enjoys the perks of his job — months off work for "maternity" leave and free flights to sports games in Europe, for example. He's a classic hypocrite who believes that his position accords him special privileges. He drives his SUV to work, hides it, and rides his bike for a hundred yards. Perhaps the reason he has not shown up in East Palestine is because he is an abject coward; he knows that the air is toxic and is scared of it. When asked about the derailment, he quickly and stupidly blames the Trump administration. Blaming Trump is the Biden administration's fallback position on anything that goes wrong. No one is buying it. They are all like a child who, with cookie crumbs on his face, blames his sibling for eating the cookie.
Everything the Biden administration has done has been a disaster of epic proportions, beginning with his cancelation of the Keystone Pipeline and moving on to his ill fated withdrawal from Afghanistan, his fomenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and now the failure to address the worst environmental accident in U.S. history. The man is obviously suffering from cognitive decline, so his appearances in Europe and elsewhere are almost always an embarrassment to the U.S. His speech is generally slurred, his reading of his speeches halting, angry, and somewhat demented. The man is not mentally sound. Buttigieg is just a garden-variety narcissist who believes he is important, a man of substance, when he is neither. This president and his Cabinet of inept wokesters have been a tragedy for America.
Image: Pete Buttigieg. Credit: Flickr, public domain.
Report: Buttigieg Finally Plans To Visit East Palestine—Three Weeks After Chemical Disaster
Transportation secretary has faced criticism over Biden admin's slow response to disaster
Nearly three weeks after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that led to the release of toxic chemicals, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is finally planning to visit the devastated town, Politicoreported on Wednesday.
Buttigieg is expected to meet on Thursday with residents and members of the National Transportation Safety Board for a briefing, according to the report.
The transportation secretary's slow response to the emergency in East Palestine has sparked bipartisan criticism of the Biden administration's handling of the disaster. It took Buttigieg nearly two weeks to issue his first statement on the derailment, in which he attacked Republicans for criticizing his inaction on the issue.
The train derailed on Feb. 3, and authorities began releasing the substances from the train on Feb. 6 to avoid an explosion and get the tracks operable again. "We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open," Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist, told a local news outlet.
Buttigieg previously said he would visit "when the time was right," according to Politico.
Animals as far as 20 miles away from the scene turned up dead in the days after the chemical release, and several videos have emerged of rivers and creeks in the area turning different colors.
Former president Donald Trump is visiting the town on Wednesday. East Palestine mayor Trent Conaway slammed President Joe Biden for failing to visit, saying the president "doesn't care about" the residents.
What happened: Pete Buttigieg is finally speaking out about the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The scandal-plagued secretary of transportation launched a media blitz this week to lash out at Republican critics and assure friendly journalists he hasn't done anything wrong.
On a conference call with reporters on Monday, the former McKinsey consultant said his department was "accelerating and augmenting our ongoing lines of effort on rail regulation and inspection," whatever that means. Buttigieg also attacked Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and others who have criticized his slow response to the Feb. 3 train derailment and his refusal to visit East Palestine to survey the damage.
"I am very interested in getting to know the residents of East Palestine, hearing from them about how they’ve been impacted and communicating with them about the steps that we’re taking," Buttigieg said on the conference call. "When the time is right, I do plan to visit East Palestine. I don’t have a date for you right now."
"Look, I was mayor of my hometown for eight years," Buttigieg told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday. "We dealt with a lot of disasters." It's not entirely clear what Buttigieg was talking about, unless he was referring to the time he pulled strings to get a small and perfectly adequate section of road repaved in front of his house in South Bend.
What they're saying:
• "Where’s Pete Buttigieg? Where’s he at?" — East Palestine resident during town meeting on February 16
• "I don’t know. Your guess is as good as [mine]. Yesterday was the first time I heard anything from the White House." — East Palestine mayor Trent Conaway, in response
• "That was the biggest slap in the face. That tells you right now [Joe Biden] doesn't care about us." — Conaway on Biden's surprise trip to Ukraine over the weekend
Context: The toxic train disaster is hardly the first transportation-related scandal Buttigieg has faced.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday fell and caught himself before possibly tumbling down the stairs as he tried to board Air Force One in Poland.
The video shows Biden slowly ascending the stars to the taxpayer-funded jet to return home. While climbing the stairs, he fell and tried to quickly regain his footing. At the top of the stairs, he hurriedly turned around and saluted before entering the aircraft:
In March 2021, Biden fell three times as he boarded the stairs of Air Force One, for which the wind was also blamed.
“It’s pretty windy outside, it’s very windy. I almost fell coming up the steps myself. He is doing 100% fine,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
Biden was given a physical examination last week that found the president suffers from a stiff gait and neuropathy in the feet. According to the Cleveland Clinic, “neuropathy refers to any condition that affects the nerves outside your brain or spinal cord.”
“This can happen for several reasons, from trauma to infections to inherited conditions. There are also many possible symptoms. Many causes, forms or symptoms of this condition are treatable, but this can vary widely from person to person,” the clinic explained.
Biden’s physical incidents are not limited to walking up stairs. In June, Biden fell off his bike in Rehoboth, Delaware, after getting his foot stuck in the peddle:
Some observers fear that Biden’s physical state may be representative of his mental state. Thirty-eight Republican lawmakers, along with Donald Trump’s former White House physician and now-Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), issued a letter in 2022, demanding Biden take a cognitive test for fear that he may have Alzheimer’s disease.
Noting Biden’s “changes in mood and personality” and “forgetfulness,” the lawmakers said Biden’s cognitive ability has been declining and “is not just a recent trend” but has become more apparent “over the past two years.”
Biden was reportedly not issued a cognitive test during last week’s physical examination.
Despite Biden’s health concerns, Jean-Pierre told reporters that the White House desires to be transparent about his health. “We want to be transparent, want to make sure you have the information,” she claimed.
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