The backstabbing and manipulation among Democratic elites would make Shakespeare’s characters blush. While Americans were assured Joe Biden was perfectly fit to serve as president, Democratic insiders were frantically pulling strings behind the scenes, knowing full well the emperor had no clothes. The truth about what happened in the lead-up to Biden’s catastrophic June 2024 debate is finally emerging, and it reveals just how far Democratic leadership would go to maintain their grip on power—even if it meant deceiving the American public about the Commander-in-Chief’s mental fitness.
And nobody played the game of thrones more cunningly than Nancy Pelosi. (Is anyone really surprised?) According to a bombshell revelation in Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’ new book “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” the former House Speaker secretly lobbied Biden not to debate Donald Trump by cynically appealing to his ego—all while knowing he was mentally unfit for the showdown.
From ‘Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House’:
“Pelosi went to him and tried to play to his ego, saying, ‘You shouldn’t lower yourself, you shouldn’t lower the presidency to Donald Trump.’ Even in her mind, she would say to him, ‘Don’t roll around in the mud.'”
Allen’s analysis cuts right to the heart of Pelosi’s duplicitous game: “If she thought Biden was going to beat Donald Trump in a debate, she would have been telling him to debate.” Bingo. The same Nancy who publicly praised Biden’s leadership was privately terrified of letting Americans see him unscripted for two hours. If that’s not the definition of political duplicity, what is?
Pelosi wasn’t alone in recognizing Biden’s deterioration. Former advisor Anita Dunn was also among those urging Biden to avoid the debate stage at all costs. But the campaign found itself “stuck between a rock and a hard place” as Biden’s poll numbers continued to sink. They needed a miracle—instead, they got a nationally televised confirmation of what they’d been hiding all along.
The Shocking Truth Democrats Tried to Hide
The rabbit hole of Democratic deception goes even deeper. I mean, how deep can this swamp actually get? Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who returned to help Biden prepare for the debate, was “startled” by the president’s condition. According to Chris Whipple’s forthcoming book “Uncharted,” Klain had “never seen him so exhausted and out of it.”
Biden was “fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged” during debate prep. In one particularly alarming episode, the president excused himself midway through a preparation session to sit by the pool. During mock debates, Biden could barely make it halfway through before becoming completely exhausted. “The president’s voice was shot and so was his grasp of the subject,” Whipple writes. Biden “had nothing to say about his agenda for a second term.” So much for “finish the job,” huh? (More like “finish the nap.”)
The level of cynicism is simply breathtaking. While Democrats publicly attacked anyone questioning Biden’s mental fitness as ageist or promoting “Russian disinformation,” his own inner circle was witnessing his decline firsthand—and actively concealing it from voters.
How America Was Gaslighted
Perhaps the most outrageous part of this saga is what it reveals about Democratic leaders’ contempt for American voters. They didn’t trust you with the truth. They believed they had the right to decide what information you were entitled to know about the person with the nuclear codes.
When Biden’s debate performance finally exposed what insiders had known all along, the same Democrats who had vouched for his fitness suddenly pivoted to pushing him out. Pelosi, the master manipulator, became “a key figure in pushing Biden out of the race after feeling convinced from the debate that he couldn’t beat Trump.”
How convenient! After years of gaslighting Americans about Biden’s condition, after silencing legitimate concerns, after mocking those who could see what was plainly obvious—suddenly these Democratic leaders pretended to be shocked by his debate performance. Did they think we wouldn’t notice this whiplash-inducing reversal? Biden’s spectacular failure during that debate wasn’t a surprise to his inner circle—it was precisely what they feared and expected. Klain reportedly “feared the debate with Trump would be a nationally televised disaster.” Spoiler alert: it was.
The Democrats’ House of Cards
This scandal proves what conservatives have long maintained: Democratic leadership will say or do anything to maintain power, even if it means perpetrating a massive fraud on the American people. The party that constantly lectures about “threats to democracy” had no problem hiding critical information about the president’s cognitive capacity from voters.
These revelations explain why Americans ultimately rejected the Democratic ticket in 2024. The house of cards built on deception finally collapsed under its own weight. The American people saw through the charade and delivered their verdict at the ballot box. The Democratic elite’s contempt for everyday Americans is staggering. They believed they had the right to decide what you should know about the president’s fitness. They believed they could manipulate public perception indefinitely. They believed their own lies.
In the end, the truth prevailed. But we shouldn’t forget how hard Democratic leaders fought to keep that truth hidden—or how willingly they betrayed not just Biden, but the American people’s right to know who was really running their country.
Key Takeaways
- Pelosi privately urged Biden to avoid debating Trump while publicly supporting his candidacy, revealing Democratic leadership’s duplicity
- Biden’s inner circle witnessed his cognitive decline firsthand but actively concealed it from American voters
- Democratic elites betrayed voters’ trust by orchestrating a massive cover-up of Biden’s deteriorating mental condition
- The truth about Biden’s fitness eventually emerged despite coordinated efforts to hide it from the American public
Sources: Fox News, Yahoo News
