Washington Post urges Congress act to prevent another cover-up of president's health amid Biden revelations

The Washington Post editorial board called for much oversight of the Oval Office connected Wednesday to guarantee a cover-up of the president's wellness doesn’t hap again pursuing revelations successful a bombshell publication alleging the White House hid erstwhile President Joe Biden’s diminution from the public.

"It present seems that, for a sizeable time, Biden mightiness person lacked the stamina and cognitive capableness the occupation demands — and that his household and closest aides concealed this from the public," the paper’s editorial committee wrote. 

"Their evident determination to enactment idiosyncratic loyalties up of their work to the state indispensable beryllium reckoned with. A ineligible mechanics should beryllium considered to guarantee that this doesn’t hap again," the committee proposed.

The erstwhile president's wellness is erstwhile again successful the headlines aft CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios analogous Alex Thompson's caller book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," was released connected Tuesday.

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President Biden's wellness should've been made transparent to the public, the Washington Post argued connected Wednesday. (Getty Images)

The publication alleges that Biden’s interior ellipse concealed his cognitive diminution for years and was released conscionable days aft quality broke that Biden had been diagnosed with precocious prostate cancer.

The Post relayed accounts from Tapper and Thompson's publication detailing however Biden was showing issues with his representation arsenic aboriginal arsenic the 2020 campaign, with 1 Democrat who was progressive successful his run concluding that helium was unfit for office.

From astatine slightest 2022, Biden was forgetting the names of his apical aides and appearing incoherent astatine times, according to the book.

Biden's unit besides reportedly adjusted his schedule to erstwhile helium was astatine his sharpest due to the fact that of these issues.

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Jake Tapper's caller book, "Original Sin," alleges that President Biden was experiencing representation lapses arsenic aboriginal arsenic the 2020 campaign. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"The state was fortunate not to person experienced a late-night situation that helium would person had occupation handling. It would beryllium folly to number connected specified luck successful the future," the committee wrote.

"Can steps beryllium taken to guarantee that voters stay alert of their leaders’ frailties? This is simply a question for Congress: How should the authorities respond erstwhile a president seems to beryllium operating with diminished faculties?" the editors asked.

The Post committee projected that Congress beryllium empowered to "keep tabs connected the president’s cognitive wellness — and to enactment erstwhile necessary."

"Ideally, Congress would make a sober, bipartisan committee to analyse ways to support transparency astir the president’s health, intelligence and physical. Perhaps immoderate nonsubjective cognitive investigating should beryllium required, successful summation to a carnal examination, with the results made nationalist annually," the committee suggested.

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A erstwhile aesculapian advisor to erstwhile President Biden believes that Biden apt had crab for years. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The editorial comes arsenic questions swirl astir Biden’s crab diagnosis and wherefore the illness was not caught earlier.

On Monday, erstwhile Biden aesculapian advisor Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist, said that the erstwhile president likely had cancer since the opening of his statesmanlike term, if not longer.

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"He did not make it successful the past 100 to 200 days," Emanuel told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough connected Monday. "I don't deliberation there's immoderate disagreement astir that."