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Back there in the Stone Age of February, 2024, the New York Post headlined:   Jill Biden and Dems committed elder abuse on Joe — now they must force him to step aside Among other things the Post Editorial Board wrote:   As part of special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Joe Biden, he reviewed interviews conducted by a ghostwriter with Biden after he left office. The former vice president was “painfully slow,” Hur’s report notes, with ” limited precision and recall.” This is in 2017 — three full years before he ran for president. What Hur has proven is that Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is not new, and it certainly wasn’t a secret.  Jill Biden knew. His aides knew. Heck, James Clyburn, the entire Democratic establishment knew. Indeed they all did know. And so too did the mainstream media. And they said - and did - nothing. Now, almost a full seven years from 2017, the CNN Biden-Trump debate has suddenly resulted in a horrified media not only admitting there’s a problem. Now they have abruptly joined with their Democrat allies in calling for Biden to be removed from the Democrat ticket. The Wall Street Journal began to put a crack in this wall of silence with this recent pre-debate story headed:  Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping Participants in meetings said the 81-year-old president performed poorly at times. The White House said Biden is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics. Now, post-debate, here’s the headline from USA Today:  'Sense of shock': Democrats melt down over Joe Biden's debate disaster This jewel included these lines:   WASHINGTON − Democrats and other opponents of Donald Trump melted down as President Joe Biden struggled during Thursday's debate, with some suggesting he should bow out to allow another Democrat to run instead.   Biden's voice was hoarse and raspy from the start. He stumbled over words and had to correct himself with numbers. He was sometimes hard to follow. On one occasion, the president appeared to lose his train of thought, stopped speaking and concluded − confusingly − with the line, "we finally beat Medicare. CNN headlined:  Biden’s debate performance sets off alarm bells for Democrats Reported the liberal network:  Washington CNN  — President Joe Biden’s debate performance has set off alarm bells among top Democrats, leaving some to openly question whether Biden can stay atop of the Democratic ticket. “He seemed a little disoriented. He did get stronger as the debate went on. But by that time, I think the panic had set in,” longtime Democratic operative and CNN senior political commentator David Axelrod said. Axelrod also gave voice to a conversation happening among many Democrats on Thursday night: “There are going to be discussions about whether he should continue. Over at the Business Insider, the collection of media terrified about Biden’s performance was headed:  'He must bow out': the media reacts to Biden's historically bad debate performance The story reported:  President Joe Biden's historically bad debate performance on Thursday night was received so poorly that there's serious talk among America's commentariat that he could, or should, or needs to be replaced. US media outlets were blunt in their assessment, featuring Biden's fumbling performance prominently in front-page headlines and scathing opinion pieces. The Insider then runs a list of media outraged at Biden’s performance and his presence on the ticket. The New York Times The New York Post  The Washington Post Fox News CNN The Wall Street Journal The Financial Times Next the list shifted to mention the negative reviews of three individual commentators: Nate Silver of the New York Times, podcaster Joe Klein, and blogger Noah Smith. Again, to remind, all of this is a full seven years after the Post noted that in 2017 “Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is not new, and it certainly wasn’t a secret.” To sum up, the knowledge of Biden’s cognitive decline was available to the media. As The Post noted:  …Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is not new, and it certainly wasn’t a secret.  Jill Biden knew. His aides knew. Heck, James Clyburn, the entire Democratic establishment knew. Indeed they all did know. And so too did the mainstream media. And they said - and did - nothing. Out there by himself was Fox’s Sean Hannity, who began to routinely note Biden’s cognitive struggles. Now, of a sudden, as the result of a presidential debate in which Biden went off the tracks and illustrated in alarmingly vivid fashion that he is indeed seriously cognitively impaired - the mainstream media and their Democrat allies are demanding that Biden be replaced on the Democratic ticket.  Why? For no other reason than that now that the American voting public has seen the Biden cognitive problem at length in living color they quite possibly will unite behind - Donald Trump. And the media simply can’t have that. Which is another way of saying that when it came to Biden’s condition, the New York Post was on to it.  And said so, even when there was a veritable platoon of people in the media and the Democrat Establishment who simply zipped their journalistic lips. Imagine that.

The Regime Media are in a full-fledged meltdown over the public exposure of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline to millions of Americans over the course of the most recent presidential debate. This is especially true over at Univision, where some of the anchors blatantly told their audience that Biden was fully fit for duty. Watch as midday anchors Borja Voces and Carolina Sarassa gave their audience a report on the president’s physical examination that one might expect to see in North Korea:     BORJA VOCES: It should be noted that it is important to remember this, Carolina, that Biden's doctor said that, in the president's annual physical, he says that he has the condition and faculties to fulfill his duty. CAROLINA SARASSA: And we are talking about this because surely you will remember that President Biden's health has been questioned recently, especially after that report from special counsel Robert Hur who decided that he was not going to file charges against the president over those documents that he kept in his office and also at home, because it supposedly said that he did not have mental faculties and that he was a person with a bad memory, so what he says, well, I think the doctor somewhat disproves that theory on the part of the special counsel. VOCES: He also doesn't give many details, for example, in the case of his memory, right? Which is an issue that was talked about a great deal after the special counsel’s report. What is clear is we know that he can fulfill his duties- he can fulfill his duties as president for additional years. SARASSA: It's good- it's good to know, right? The aforementioned medical examination and subsequent report happened within the immediate aftermath of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on his investigations into President Biden’s handling of classified documents. The key finding from Hur’s report is that although he found multiple likely violations of law, he’d have difficulty persuading a jury to convict an “elderly man with a poor memory”. Biden’s frailties have long been a matter of record, but as we noted at the time: Univision has done everything in their power to avoid reporting on Biden’s physical frailty and obviously declining mental faculties. During Biden’s speeches, he is usually paired with one of the best (if not the best) interpreter in the business, who makes anyone sound like a president out of central casting. Biden’s decline has been well hidden from Univision’s audience, purely by design. These were our observations BEFORE Univision’s tongue bath of an “interview” with Joe Biden- a jump-cut laden affair that paired the president with the best interprereter in the business. Watch as Univision hid the decline:     JOE BIDEN: The idea we don't have background checks for anybody purchasing a weapon, the idea that we're going to be in a position where he says that he famously told the NRA that don't worry, no one's going to touch your guns if I… From the very beginning, I used to teach the Second Amendment in law school, from the very beginning, there were limitations. You couldn't own a cannon. You couldn’t… You could own a rifle or a gun.   ENRIQUE ACEVEDO: Weapons of war. JOE BIDEN: They weren’t weapons of war. That is a stark difference in presentation. As I observed then: Those who watched the TelevisaUnivision interview of Joe Biden on Unimás (as I did, primarily) got English with subtitles. We heard the president in his own voice, speech pattern and mannerisms. We got to hear him trail off several times, and made assessments of his lucidity and cognition. Based on this feed we were able to speculate as to the efficacy of the (alleged) White House medical cocktail team (hard to assess because the interview was split into shorter interviews across multiple venues, as opposed to Trump’s lengthy sit-down at Mar-a-Lago). Those who watched the Spanish-dubbed interview on Univision were deprived of that perspective because of the stellar job done by the interpreter. When dubbed into Spanish, Biden sounds 40 years younger and without cognitive decline. The interpreter’s rich baritone, when transposed onto Biden, leaves viewers with the impression of a president far more vigorous than he actually is. The debate shattered the carefully constructed image of Joe Biden that was fed to Univision’s viewers over the course of the last four years. Viewers got to see for themselves what the network very carefully tried to hide, or at least paper over. The network, like everyone else in the Regime Media, is now scrambling to pick up the pieces of its credibility.   

A former "American Ninja Warrior" champion has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for charges regarding child porn and coercing a minor to cross state lines for sex.Andrew Drechsel, 35, was sentenced to 121 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Renée M. Bumb in Camden federal court on Wednesday. The Florida man from Saint Cloud had pleaded guilty on June 1 to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of knowingly persuading, inducing, enticing, and coercing a minor to travel across interstate lines to engage in sexual activity.In addition to the prison term, Drechsel was sentenced to 15 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to the victim.Between 2014 and 2019, Drechsel lived in Hamden, Connecticut. Drechsel admitted that he initially met the victim in 2014 through his activities in the parkour community through his reputation as an "American Ninja Warrior" champion, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey's office.At Drechsel's urging, the underage girl allegedly traveled from New Jersey to his gym in Connecticut in July 2015. The reality entertainment star allegedly had sexual relations with the underage girl.The child sexual abuse reportedly happened when the victim was 14 and 15 years old.On Nov. 8, 2019, law enforcement agents searched Drechsel’s phone and found images of child sex crimes, including illicit photos and videos of the underage victim.Drechsel admitted texting the victim and discussing plans to engage in sexual activity with the victim.The former celebrity won season 11 of "American Ninja Warrior," a reality TV show. He reportedly won $1 million on the reality competition TV show and starred in eight seasons.When the charges against Drechsel were filed in 2020, NBC said they were "shocked and disturbed to learn about the charges alleged against Drew Drechsel.""'American Ninja Warrior' is a family show that has inspired countless people, and we will not let the actions of one contestant tarnish the hard work and amazing stories of so many. Moving forward, the 'American Ninja Warrior' brand will sever all ties with Mr. Drechsel, including his appearance on future seasons of the show," NBC told The Hollywood Reporter.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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