Edith Galt Wilson & Dr. Jill Biden

On Sept. 3, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson left DC on a nationwide tour to campaign for his beloved League of Nations. Negotiated in Europe at the end of WW1 — which he had described as ‘a war to save democracy’ — the treaty had to be ratified by the US Senate. GOP leaders — angry Wilson had not consulted them, sharing fears of constituents about ceding US sovereignty to a new global organization — balked.

For almost a month, the president, First Lady Edith Wilson, aides, cooks, his physician, Secret Service agents and members of the press went on a whistle-stop tour along the nation’s railways. The itinerary: across the Midwest, into the Great Plains states, over the Rockies into the Pacific Northwest and then down the West Coast. They would ride, then stop and he would speak. But on Sept. 25, 1919, after speaking in Pueblo, Colorado, Edith discovered her husband twitching uncontrollably, with severe nausea and headaches. He was having a minor stroke.

Once back in the White House, on Oct. 2, Wilson had a massive stroke. “My God,” said White House physician Cary T. Grayson after examining him, “the president is paralyzed.” That’s when the cover-up began. First Lady Edith Wilson claimed later she had only been a gatekeeper, screening what issues to bring to his attention, then reporting his decisions to the White House team. But she let no officials inside the bedroom where he was being treated. Historians have debated ever since whether Edith Wilson was the first female president. At the very least, she concealed the severity of his disability from press and Cabinet, which he did not convene until April.

The coverup of President Joe Biden’s conditions — both mental and physical — are arguably worse. Biden’s cognitive senility, long suspected and often chronicled by video footage dismissed by his press secretary as “cheap fakes,” is now exposed by the release of his audio interview with prosecutor Robert Hur. Biden’s stumbles are so painful, I could not even finish listening to it. Democrats disparaged Hur at the time for dismissing any charges against Biden for mishandling classified documents — something they were clamoring to punish Trump for — on grounds no jury would convict this “elderly man with a poor memory.” A partisan exaggeration, they said then. Now these same cover-up artists accuse Hur of underselling Biden’s condition.

Sadly, Biden has now been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Lately, doctors have been calling it turbo cancer, which spreads so quickly it is all but untreatable. Many health professionals now believe turbo cancer was caused by the COVID-19 vaccination shots. After the CDC recommended Americans over 65 years of age, Biden got his third booster. He may have had more.

These shots, we now know, we not in the service of science, but of politics. The Democrats who were running Joe Biden — including his autopen, which issued a number of high-profile preemptive pardons to the likes of Anthony Fauci and Adam Schiff — had a mission to lock down the country. Masks, six-feet of distance, playgrounds, schools and churches closed but liquor stores open — were ineffective. The only thing spreading in Biden’s America were mandates, a form of tyranny.

Rather than acknowledge their own willful cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline and their own mockery of GOP critics, Dem journalists led by CNN’s Jake Tapper are now blaming the White House. At the very least, Tapper owes Lara Trump an apology.

And at the most, Congress needs to find out which Dem officials — inside or outside the White House — were figuratively holding Joe Biden’s autopen. Given the scope of Biden’s harm to the nation — putting us on a path to bankruptcy over a Green New Scam bill that spiked inflation, encouraging DEI policies that encouraged racism against whites and transgender policies that endangered women in sports — Democrat malfeasance in letting him run for office and then hiding his disabilities is one of the greatest scandals in our history, far surpassing Watergate.

There is one major difference between First Lady Edith Galt Wilson and First Lady Jill Biden. The Wilsons were a late in life and passionate love story — he was 59 and she was 43 when they married — and she said later she kept his condition a secret because she knew that if he lost the presidency, it would kill him. She loved the man.

Jill Biden told her husband when he came off the stage after that disastrous debate with Donald Trump last year that he did really well. Standing in front of a campaign backdrop that said, “Let’s Go Joe,” sounding like a mother talking to a toddler, Jill Biden told her husband, “You answered every question, you knew all the facts. And let me ask the crowd: What did Trump do? Lie.” Surely she knew better, on both counts.

In 2021, in the first year of his presidency, I wrote of Joe Biden’s mental decline. The piece was called Jill Biden’s Blind Spot, and it posed the central question of her complicity. It is a paraphrase of Sen. Howard Baker’s famous query from Watergate, and it bears repeating here: “What did the first lady know and when did she know it?”

If she knew what the rest of us saw, it is elder abuse, in search of power.