Wild New York mag feature details ‘conspiracy of silence’ to hide Biden’s ‘mental decline’ from America

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A wild New York magazine feature detailing a "conspiracy" to hide President Biden’s mental decline claimed elite Democrats have long known about cognitive issues that have been under a microscope since last week’s disastrous debate.

Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi penned "The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden," which featured the staggering subheadline, "The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters." Nuzzi noted that she began hearing similar stories from "Democratic officials, activists, and donors" in January about concerns related to Biden’s age and cognitive ability.

"Following encounters with the president, they had arrived at the same concern: Could he really do this for another four years? Could he even make it to Election Day? Uniformly, these people were of a similar social strata. They lived and socialized in Washington, New York, and Los Angeles. They did not wish to come forward with their stories. They did not want to blow a whistle," Nuzzi wrote.

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"They wished that they could whistle past what they knew and emerge in November victorious and relieved, having helped avoid another four years of Trump. What would happen after that? They couldn’t think that far ahead," she