President Joe Biden has lost the political spotlight to Vice President Kamala Harris , but despite his obvious diminished mental capacity, he still clings to his office, which means that what little he says in public still affects national policy, whether his statements are intentional or not.
This week, en route to a rare joint appearance with Harris in Maryland , Biden simply answered, “I do,” when asked by a reporter if he agrees with the socialist governments of Colombia and Brazil that Nicolas Maduro’s regime should hold another election in Venezuela, this one not rigged by the government.
Other countries, such as Argentina, have gone further, calling opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia the winner of the July 28 election, a result supported by international observers. The United States has not yet called Gonzalez the winner, but neither has it suggested a new election should be held, until Biden did Thursday.
That was the U.S. position, siding with the socialist governments of Colombia and Brazil that a new election is necessary, until the White House walked back Biden’s statement less than an hour later. “The president was speaking to the absurdity of Maduro and his representatives not coming clean about the July 28 elections,” a National Security Council said in the statement. “It is abundantly clear to the majority of the Venezuelan people, the United States, and a growing number of countries that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes on July 28.”
Biden’s Maduro blunder was hardly the first the White House had to correct. When he answered “yes” when a reporter asked him if he was “willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that,” the White House had to dash to clean up Biden’s mess and say there was no change in policy and the president misspoke. When Biden claimed Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" after Russia invaded Ukraine, the White House again had to concede that he misspoke and there was no change in policy.
Before June 27, Democrats could play these slip-ups off as part of a strategic Biden ambiguity designed to press our enemies into better behavior by keeping them guessing about our true policy. But after Biden’s debate implosion, that excuse is no longer viable. Everyone now knows the reality is, was, and always has been that Biden simply does not have the mental capacity to keep track of what his administration’s policies are and is constantly liable to make up new policy on the fly whenever he speaks unscripted.
One way to minimize the danger is to keep Biden locked up and out of sight, which is what his handlers have mostly done since he dropped out of the race and, indeed, since before that climactic event. But America’s adversaries are aware of what Biden’s mental state is. They know he is compromised to the point of being incapable. If a major national security emergency were to arise, the president should be able to come out in public and communicate leadership and direction, a function Biden clearly is no longer able to perform, even between his peak operating hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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The public has a right to expect a functioning presidency. But who is really making daily national security decisions? Who is controlling information that reaches the president? How much control does the Harris campaign have over the decisions the Biden White House is making? Biden should no longer be president.
Harris should be forced to discuss all this as well as explain why she covered up Biden’s drastic mental decline for so long.
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