We are likely 12-18 months away from learning how the Biden White House has actually been run over the last four years. One thing is for certain: Biden's clear decline was suppressed news by the mainstream press. The truth will come out soon because whoever writes the first truthful memoir of this presidency will get paid millions of dollars.

The Wall Street Journal brought Biden's competency screaming back into the headlines this week with another in-depth investigation of how the White House staff has hidden Biden. Notably, the Journal's report states the problem goes back to Biden's first year in office, remarking that legislative leaders couldn't even reach Biden during the Afghanistan pullout nightmare.

The Journal didn't talk to just a few people; it had "interviews with nearly 50 people, including those who participated in or had direct knowledge of the operations." It's a deep dive and is deeply sourced. Commenting on the story on his 2Way show, journalist Mark Halperin, who was the first to report Biden was leaving the race, said the WSJ's reporting was only the tip of the iceberg.

You get the same sense from reading the Journal's reporting. "In the summer of 2023, one prominent Democratic donor put together a small event for Biden's re-election bid. The donor was shocked when a campaign official told him that attendees shouldn't expect to have a free ranging question-and-answer session with the president. Instead, the organizer was told to send in two or three questions ahead of time that Biden would answer."

In effect, Biden cannot even handle the basics of a friendly get-together of Democrats who just want to chat. But it didn't end there; it's unclear whether Biden understood his performance in the election.

The Journal quotes Democrats freaking out over the summer. "Democratic insiders became alarmed by the way Biden described his own polling, publicly characterizing the race as a tossup when polls released in the weeks after the disastrous June debate consistently showed Trump ahead. They worried he wasn't getting an unvarnished look at his standing in the race."

Democratic Senators were particularly concerned. "Those fears intensified on July 11, when Biden's top advisers met behind closed doors with Democratic senators, where the advisers laid out a road map for Biden's victory. The message from the advisers was so disconnected from public polling—which showed Trump leading Biden nationally—that it left Democratic senators incredulous. It spurred Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) to speak to Biden directly, according to people familiar with the matter."

The last part of this is accurate because it lines up with the period that Schumer, Pelosi, and Jefferies began their hard push to get Biden to drop out. It was also when the Obama pressure campaign began with George Clooney and others. Biden's support in the party imploded, and he couldn't hide from these accusations.

Even with this reporting, we still don't know the full extent of things. That's why the first Biden aide to write the first memoir that details these issues will get paid the big dollars. And with the sniping among Democrats right now, there's no stopping that story from coming out soon enough.

But that brings us back to the present. Joe Biden is still president of the United States. In watching Congress and international affairs, it's clear right now that everyone in the world is treating Donald Trump as more an active president than they are Joe Biden. The White House is issuing pardons, with more on the way. But Biden is otherwise a non-entity.

We're watching countries broker deals with Trump's presence as the deciding factor. Congress is negotiating over spending deals and the debt ceiling, and Joe Biden is nowhere to be found. Donald Trump's opinion matters more in this lame-duck period than that of Biden.

It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen or read about in history. There's no avoiding the comparison to the incapacitation period for Woodrow Wilson's time in office. We know now that Wilson's wife ran things while he could not do anything. What will we learn about Joe Biden?

It appears now that his staff was running everything. And if it wasn't him, it was Jill Biden. Notably, the Journal's report begins with a note that Jill Biden's staff got chided for praising how much work she was doing because it highlighted how little Biden was doing on the campaign trail.

Jill Biden and her family will have a lot to answer for in the coming years over how they hid Joe's condition from the public and tried to prop him up for another term. The Wall Street Journal shows that breaks in that dam are starting now.