A new bombshell book claims to reveal the scale of the cover-up that hid Joe Biden’s mental decline. Rob Crilly, our chief US correspondent, takes a closer look at how those in the former president’s inner circle went to extraordinary lengths to protect him. Not least Mr Biden’s worst enabler, his wife Jill.

 

 

Surely Trump’s Wacko West Point Commencement Speech Proves He’s Mentally Unfit to Serve

President Donald Trump told graduates to avoid "trophy wives" during his commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point on May 24.

"He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife," Trump said, referring to real estate developer Bill Levitt. "But that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives, it doesn’t it work."

USA Today.

 

Katie Phang trashed President Trump’s eyebrow-raising West Point speech as “diarrhea of the mouth.”  During his address to graduates at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Trump ranted about DEI, drag shows, golf, and trophy wives. Phang, whose MSNBC show was cut as part of the network’s closure of its Miami-based broadcasting operations in February, called the president’s bizarre address “incoherent.” “It was such a keen example of his lack of mental acuity and his lack of competency,” Phang added. “He has no faculties that are left uncompromised.”

At one point in his address to the young cadets, Trump said “The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” the president said. 

  • “I went through a very tough time with some very radicalized sick people, and I say, I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone. Alphonse Capone was a monster, he was a very hardened criminal. I went through more investigations than Alphonse Capone, and now I’m talking to you as president, can you believe this?” (Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud and former DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith said that he believed Trump would have been convicted for trying to overthrow the 2020 election had he not won reelection last November. A prior fact check from CNN found that Trump’s claim he was indicted more than Capone was false: Trump has been indicted four times, but Capone was indicted six times.)
Mother Jones
 

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.......he couldn't keep track of things from one second to the next. It was brought home in a question about student visas.

Reporter: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign student visas?

Trump: On what?

Reporter: For the student visa. Yesterday was the -—

Trump: For the French? 

Reporters together: Foreign. Foreign.

Reporter: All the foreign students.

Trump: Oh, for the foreign visas. What are you referring --- foreign visas for what? Are you talking about colleges? Okay, you're off of Israel. Now you're talking about colleges, right? Okay, well, we're gonna see.

Then he started attacking Harvard.

Bill Addis -- Daily Kos
 

.....according to NBC's inside sources (as many as five of them), he (Trump) rarely even attends the "President’s Daily Brief" (PDB) to get updates on national security from his utterly unqualified Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard. According to NBC News...

"Trump’s intelligence chief is exploring ways to revamp his routine intelligence briefing in order to build his trust in the material and make it more aligned with how he likes to consume information, according to five people with direct knowledge of the discussions. [...]

"One idea that has been discussed is to transform the PDB so it mirrors a Fox News broadcast, according to four of the people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Under that concept as it has been discussed, the national intelligence director’s office could hire a Fox News producer to produce it and one of the network’s personalities to present it"

 

 

Flashback:

Consider President Kennedy, who sent US forces to Vietnam to deny Chinese control of Indochina. So passionate was JFK about his war that he personally chose the Army’s new jungle handbooks right in the Oval Office. But had he instead read a few pages on Vietnam’s history, he would immediately have learned that the very identity of the Vietnamese people had emerged in opposition to Chinese expansionism, so the best way of keeping China’s influence out of Indochina was to send weapons to Hanoi.

That is exactly what President Truman did in 1948, when he ordered that money, supplies and weapons be rushed to Tito who, communist though he was, had decided to keep Stalin’s Soviet army out of Yugoslavia. But Kennedy chose a different path, and many Americans were killed or maimed to fight against the most anti-Chinese nation on earth.

America lacked intelligence at the start of its Vietnamese adventure — and hardly had more by the end. Why? Because, it seems, to understand foreign countries is just not an American talent, and indeed the hugely expensive “intelligence community” of 16 different agencies barely even tries. The CIA’s officers are the best educated of the lot, but they too resolutely refuse to learn foreign languages, except perhaps bar-room Spanish. One exception are the so-called “language officers”, but they stay at headquarters. Even Michael Scheuer, head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, knew no Arabic at the start of his tenure and refused to learn any thereafter. His deputy also spoke no Arabic, despite the fact that bin Laden used speeches to inspire and direct his followers.

 

No wonder America’s 21st-century wars were intelligence disasters before anything else.

Edward Luttwak.