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President Joe Biden has become so unstable that the U.S. Secret Service is now taking additional steps to ensure his safety.
According to The New York Times, an agent is now taking up a post at the base of a short stairwell Biden uses to board Air Force One to ensure he doesn’t fall and harm himself
The news comes amid growing concerns about Biden’s age — he’s 81, the oldest president to ever serve — and his declining mental acuity amid efforts by the White House to mitigate the risks of falling.
In September, Biden nearly fell down the stairs as he exited Air Force One in Michigan.
His campaign team worked to prevent him from stumbling publicly during the election season.
Biden stumbled on the stairs while getting off the plane in Detroit.
According to Axios, Biden’s team is making a concerted effort to have him wear tennis shoes and limit stair climbs to avoid another embarrassing fall.
He is also receiving physical therapy from Drew Contreras, a specialist who previously worked with former President Barack Obama.
According to the outlet, Contreras has suggested several exercises to improve the president’s balance.
After his fall at the Air Force Academy in June, Biden began wearing sneakers in public this summer.
He also began boarding Air Force One via shorter stairs to a lower level, another precautionary measure.
Earlier this month, the special counsel assigned to look into Biden’s improper handling of classified documents, Robert Hur, noted the president’s decimated mental condition.
Just the news noted:
Hur’s 388-page report … may have spared Biden the spectacle of a criminal prosecution similar to that his Justice Department imposed on Donald Trump, but it delivered a devastating blow to the 46th president’s re-election hopes by going out of its way to explain criminal charges weren’t levied in part because jurors might see Biden as a dottering, forgetful old man incapable of criminal intent.
“Mr. Biden will likely present himself to the jury, as he did during his interview with our office, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote in explaining his rationale for refusing prosecution. “…It would be difficult to convince a jury they should convict him – by then a former president who will be at least well into his eighties – of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen,” the report concluded.
The presidency of Joe Biden, as explained by Hur, was described in the report as they believed Biden suffered from “diminished faculties in advancing age.”
“Every time he (Biden) talks, he’s confused,” Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., a Marine and former emergency room doctor, told Just the News.
“If he’s not taken by the arm and shown where to go, he doesn’t know where to walk. Biden could be at the White House and try to go through the wrong entrance. He could be on stage and not know which direction to go. He doesn’t know who’s standing next to him. Biden doesn’t even know where he’s going,” McCormick said.
“This is just a confused old man. Now, the whole problem with the whole prosecution issue is I’m more concerned about presidential decisions,” he noted.
“We’re talking about a guy who has the keys to nuclear arms. You’re talking about a guy who makes decisions on who to attack,” he added.
