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Report: Joe Biden Uses Shorter Air Force One Staircase to Hide Mobility Problems

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WENDELL HUSEBØ

21 Jul 20230

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President Joe Biden now uses the shorter steps to board Air Force One instead of the usual staircase that he often trips upon while boarding the plane, Politico reported Thursday in a 19-paragraph article.

Politico, which frequently tries to protect the Bidens from political liabilities, such as its infamous reporting on the “laptop from hell” in 2020, permitted reporters Eli Stokols and Jonathan Lemire to write an article on Thursday about  Biden’s deteriorating physical well being.

“Biden downplays age talk — but subtle accommodations are being made,” the headline read with the subtitle, “From the dinners declined, to the way he boards Air Force One and the shoes he wears, Biden’s routines are changing.”

The article highlighted his growing physical infirmities and his new use of the smaller steps at the back of Air Force One to board the plane:

Biden boarded [Air Force One] using the shorter set of retractable stairs that fold into the belly of the plane. The routine began a few months ago, the president increasingly avoiding the grander, more traditional doorway near the front of the aircraft on the main passenger level, higher above the tarmac.

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Last week, Biden used the small steps to board Air Force One for every flight on his European trip: to London, Vilnius, Helsinki and back to Washington. None of those arrivals or departures — all of which are public and witnessed by the traveling press pool — were marked by inclement weather. He used the large stairs to descend from the plane upon arrival in London, Vilnius and Helsinki, when his hosts arranged more formal greeting ceremonies, but not to climb back aboard. And the overseas trip came on the heels of several recent domestic ones where Biden predominantly used the lower stairs on visits to and from Rocky Mount, N.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

The new routine looks to be another subtle accommodation to the president’s age. It is hiding in plain sight, although the White House won’t concede that interpretation. Three weeks ago when the president traveled to New York, again using the lower stairs to board, Bloomberg’s Justin Sink pressed press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about it during her in-flight gaggle. Was Biden having “mobility problems,” Sink asked, or was it “to address — you know, he’s had a couple incidents falling on the stairs getting up and you guys just decided that it would be better for him?”

In February, Biden took a physical examination that found he 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.”

Biden’s neuropathy might explain why he often trips:

According to recent polling, strong majorities of Americans believe Biden is too old for another term as commander-in-chief and hold concerns about his “health and mental acuity.” A plurality of U.S. adults believes his age and health “severely” limit his ability to do his job.

President Joe Biden is helped up after falling during the graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy on June 1, 2023 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images).

Nearly half of independent voters say the 80-year-old’s health and age “severely limit” his ability to discharge his duties even as he readies to run again in 2024.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

Democrats Try to Cheat Their Way to Retaking the House

A plan to ram through gerrymandered redistricting maps in New York.

July 21, 2023 by Joseph Klein 3 Comments

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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]

In order to take back control of the House of Representatives, the Democrats are eyeing several seats in New York that flipped to the Republicans in the 2022 midterm election cycle. Winning these seats was critical in securing the House majority for the Republicans. Now the Democrats want the seats back. But they are not content with simply taking their message to the voters and competing for their votes on the issues. Instead, the Democrats are trying to cheat their way to victory.

With the full support of the national House Democratic leadership, New York State Democrats are seeking a do-over of what is supposed to be a once-in-a-decade redistricting process based on the results of the most recent U.S. census. Last year the New York State Court of Appeals had ordered the drawing of competitive districts by a neutral court-appointed expert in advance of the 2022 midterm elections. The purpose was to replace the Democrat-controlled New York State Legislature’s flagrantly gerrymandered district maps that violated a New York State constitutional amendment adopted by the voters outlawing partisan gerrymandering. The Legislature had seized control of the redistricting process and corrupted it after the bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission established by the constitutional amendment was deadlocked, leading to intervention by the Court of Appeals. Now the Democrats are trying to seize control of the redistricting process again to thwart fair congressional elections in 2024.

In a lawsuit funded by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democrats are seeking to throw out the competitive districts that were drawn by order of the New York State Court of Appeals. The Democrats’ justification for their outrageous gambit is that these competitive districts were only valid for the 2022 elections and that the bipartisan commission needs to go back to work to redraw the districts for the remainder of the decade.

Never mind that the Court of Appeals did not indicate in its decision that its intent was only to order a limited, one-time temporary fix. In the absence of such an explicit statement of intent, the presumption should be that last year’s court-ordered congressional district maps are final and in place until after the 2030 census. The New York Constitution states:

“The process for redistricting congressional and state legislative districts established by this section and sections five and five-b of this article shall govern redistricting in this state except to the extent that a court is required to order the adoption of, or changes to, a redistricting plan as a remedy for a violation of law. A reapportionment plan and the districts contained in such plan shall be in force until the effective date of a plan based upon the subsequent federal decennial census taken in a year ending in zero unless modified pursuant to court order.” (NY Const, Art. III, § 4 [e])

The only modifications that the Court of Appeals ordered last year were to the unconstitutional maps that the Legislature drew up in its effort to rig the system. It makes no sense that the Court of Appeals contemplated giving the New York Legislature the opportunity so soon to manipulate the redistricting process again in advance of the 2024 elections.

The National Republican Campaign Committee correctly called the Democrats’ legal challenge “a blatant partisan power grab thinly disguised as a court case.” However, the Democrats’ cynical ploy is working so far. An intermediate appellate New York court, the Appellate Division of the of the State Supreme Court in Albany, agreed with the Democrats’ position. Its July 13th decision concluded that the Court of Appeals’ order last year applied only to the 2022 elections as a temporary fix to a procedural problem caused by the Independent Redistricting Commission’s failure to complete its work properly. The Appellate Division court majority found that the commission erred in not  submitting a second set of redistricting maps to the Legislature after the first set went nowhere. The Appellate Division court ordered that the commission restart the redistricting process to correct this error.

Counting on the likelihood that the commission will once again be deadlocked, Democrats are salivating at the prospect that the Democrat-dominated New York State Legislature will again ultimately take over and manipulate the redistricting process to their partisan advantage.

Republicans have vowed to appeal the Appellate Division’s decision to the New York State Court of Appeals. But they are likely to have an uphill battle since the composition of New York’s highest court has moved decidedly to the left since 2022. Judge Rowan D. Wilson, a liberal, dissented from the Court of Appeals’ 2022 decision. In 2023, he replaced the prior chief judge who resigned a few months after writing the majority decision concluding that Democratic legislative leaders had created gerrymandered congressional district maps in violation of the New York State Constitution. Liberal Caitlin Halligan in turn was confirmed to fill the vacancy left by Judge Wilson’s promotion from associate judge to chief judge, creating a 4-3 liberal majority on the Court of Appeals.

With these changes, the risk to fair congressional elections in New York next year is that today’s more progressive Court of Appeals will reverse the 2022 decision by what was then a more centrist Court of Appeals that mandated competitively drawn congressional districts. The Democrats could well win via litigation before a receptive court what they fear they cannot win legitimately at the ballot box in fair elections.

Joseph Klein

Joseph Klein is a Harvard-trained lawyer, and the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom and Lethal Engagement: Barack Hussein Obama, The United Nations & Radical Islam.

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