Pritzker, who now says Trump has dementia, played major role covering up Biden's infirmity
And Pritzker's diagnosis came just as we learned that Biden needed a palm card with pictures to recognize Pritzker and other key Democrats.
The irony couldn’t be richer.
Just a day after we learned that President Joe Biden needed palm cards with pictures to recognize Pritzker and other key Democrats, Pritzker said Tuesday that it’s Trump who has dementia and should be removed from office.
But the hypocrisy is still richer still because Pritzker played a big role in the scandalous coverup of Biden’s mental decline.
Pritzker, while serving as a proxy for Biden, frequently and firmly attested to Biden’s mental health. Pritzker became vicious about it, attempting to smear a respected special prosecutor for concluding the Biden was too impaired to stand trial.
It’s all in a column I wrote last year describing how Pritzker helped cover up Biden’s decline. That column is reproduced in full below.
If you want a diagnosis of Trump’s mental condition, I suggest a better source than Pritzker.
-Mark Glennon
From December 2024:
Gov. Pritzker was and remains part of the coverup of Biden’s mental decline
“This is the biggest scandal in America. And the level and volume of people who dedicated themselves to lying to everyone at home about this man’s condition for four-straight years up through this summer is breathtaking.”
By: Mark Glennon*
National stories abound this week about the concerted effort by media, the White House and Democratic officials lying to cover up Pres. Biden’s impaired mental capacity. Much of the commentary was sparked by a detailed Wall Street Journal report based on fifty interviews of people in or close to the White House. You can read it here and see that Jennings’ comment above is no exaggeration. The coverup was there from the start, even while Biden was Obama’s vice president.
High among the guilty is one who remained steadfast and outspoken throughout Biden’s term in denying Biden’s impairment and claiming firsthand knowledge that Biden was fine. That’s Gov. JB Pritzker, who served as a Biden proxy during his candidacy.
Among comments Pritzker made:
“I’ve been with the President of the United States many times,” Pritzker said in February. “He is on the ball. The man knows more than most of us have forgotten.”
“Of course,” answered Pritzker when asked in July if Biden was “physically and mentally capable” of serving a second term.”
Pritzker resorted to smearing the special prosecutor who declined to prosecute Biden in part because of his mental condition, saying that a jury would see him as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” That was Robert Hur, an exceptionally well respected career prosecutor who reviewed the evidence and found that Biden had illegally taken possession of classified documents but was too frail to prosecute. “I smell a rat,” said Pritzker after Hur released his report, which included Hur’s conclusions about Biden’s conditions based on a deposition of Biden. “It was extremely unfair,” Pritzker said, for a Trump appointee, originally to the Department of Justice, to offer his own opinions about the mental acuity or age of the president of the United States.” In truth, there’s clearly nothing unfair about a prosecutor citing his reasons for believing that a jury would have found somebody too infirm to convict.
Pritzker even sought to make Biden’s age an asset, arguing that Biden had made age his “friend” and used his years to become “a gem of a human.” He went on: “I’ve thought a lot about why people care so much about age in this coming election, and I want to talk to you about it. We need to stop dismissing concerns about the physical age of a candidate, especially when that concern comes from a young person. Instead, what people are afraid of is the age of the candidates’ ideas,” he said.
The lies and coverup of Biden’s condition had consequences, many of which we may never know, but some of which are now becoming clear, and some are deadly. Biden was so mentally fatigued that he missed a critical phone call from the House Armed Services Committee before the catastrophic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Journal reported. Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash), who chaired the committee at the time, revealed he had tried to contact Biden to warn about the administration’s optimistic public comments on the withdrawal. Based on his extensive work on the issue, Smith believed the process would be far more difficult than White House officials were suggesting and sought to share his findings. “I was begging them to set expectations low,” Smith told the Journal. However, despite his efforts, he was unable to speak directly with Biden.
Thirteen American service members and more than 170 Afghans died during the botched evacuation at Kabul airport and we left $7 billion worth of US military equipment behind for the Taliban.
Pritzker has never expressed a word about Biden’s capacity to serve, even as Democratic Congressmen likeMike Quigley were calling for Biden to drop out.
Some who participated in the coverup are coming clean. Chris Celizza, a former CNN commentator, made a public apology. Even the New York Times admitted this week that “It is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years.” Not Pritzker.
Many of us didn’t need somebody to tell us Biden was incapacitated long ago. Others, however, believed what they were told. They were duped and betrayed.