TOO SICK JOE LETTING GO!
Frail prez won’t run again in 2024
CLOBBERED by backto-back COVID infections and struggling with what experts see as signs of dementia, President Joe Biden has secretly dropped a bombshell to his inner circle — he won’t run for reelection in 2024, sources tell GLOBE.
While no immediate public announcement is expected, the 79-year-old commanderin-chief, the oldest man ever sworn in as president, is determined to step out of the presidential picture some time after the upcoming midterm elections to allow the Democratic Party time to choose his successor, tipsters tattle.
He will now become the first chief exec not to seek a second term since Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968.
His historic decision follows glaring physical symptoms noticed by White House observers — a shuffling gait and dilated pupils — that medical experts link to a loss of nerve control and moderateto-severe stages of dementia.
“Those with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease have pupils that take longer to adjust to light,” says Dr. Holly Schiff, a Greenwich, Conn., shrink who has not treated Biden.
“Those with even mild cognitive impairment … show greater pupil dilation than those without any cognitive issues.”
Schiff adds America’s
46th president has been “exhibiting signs of early stage dementia for some time.”
“It has become increasingly apparent Biden is starting to yield to this progressive disease.”
The president was also recently stricken with backto-back bouts of COVID-19 after having taken a round of the powerful antiviral Paxlovid, an incredibly rare phenomenon that occurs in less than 1 percent of patients.
Doctors say COVID “rebound” cases are linked to weakened immunity, frail health and preexisting conditions.
His personal docs declared Biden fit to serve following his annual physical in November, but he’s resisted repeated calls from House Republicans to submit to a full battery of cognitive testing.
In a late-July letter, more than 50 GOP reps expressed “concern” for the president’s “current cognitive state” and demanded he be tested.
Meanwhile, a June survey by Harvard and Harris pollsters found 64 percent of voters say Biden appears too old to be president — with 60 percent of the people polled aged 65 or older!
Sources say Biden will delay his announcement to give him time to build his legacy by spending his remaining political capital and clout to deal
with Russia and China.
As GLOBE previously reported, sources say the aging chief executive’s failing physical and cognitive condition has increased since his election.
In addition to his customary string of embarrassing malaprops and misstatements, Biden also failed to recall key episodes from his own past, suffered apparent hallucinations and wandered aimlessly amid the White House grounds.
In one alarming incident, he claimed to act as peacemaker between the Israelis and Egyptians during the 1967 Six-Day War — when he was actually still in law school!
At a speech in Iowa, he turned and bizarrely offered to shake the hand of someone who wasn’t there.
Biden’s decision comes as he faces open revolt within his own party.
A recent CNN poll showed 75 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want a different nominee in 2024 and Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota became the first national Democratic lawmaker to openly say
Biden shouldn’t run.
“I think the country would be well served by a new generation of compelling, wellprepared, dynamic Democrats to step up,” he says.
In choosing to bow out of the Oval Office, Biden has caved to a growing chorus of critics, insiders claim.
Says retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely: “The president has been showing signs of diminished capability for more than a year now, from his incoherent speeches to his dangerous flights from reality on matters of national security, to his frequent stumbles on issues large and small.
“And if a layman can see it, you can be sure America’s enemies can, too.
“It’s a situation that needed to change and I’m sure the president realized that as time went on.”