Carl Cannon, the Washington Editor of RealClearPolitics, joined fellow RealClearPolitics podcast hosts Andrew Walworth and Tom Bevan where he raised a pertinent question about President Joe Biden.

It came after a Wall Street Journal story titled “How the White House Functioned with a Diminished Biden in Charge,” where it said, “aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens, and public interactions became more scripted.”

The story was done by interviewing 50 people involved in dealings with the president and the editor wondered who was in charge during the Biden administration.

“I don’t like to overuse the word ‘scandal,’ but the more we find out about this and the Biden administration, the more it seems like a scandal,” he said.

“Two things come to mind. First, who was really running the government? Was it Barack Obama, Jill Biden, or these aides — holdovers from the Obama administration? They’re competent, smart people, but not elected people,” Cannon said. “Second, the people who raised concerns about this were shouted down and attacked.”

“Jim Geraghty of National Review was attacked for writing about this. A CNN journalist wrote that even raising this issue in 2021, after the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, was ‘gross, lowest-common-denominator politics that drive people away from public life.’ In other words, anyone who questioned Biden’s diminished state was labeled a liar or a conspiracy theorist and told to shut up. Now we’re finding out it was true,” Cannon continued.

“People have something to answer for, including the first lady and these aides. If Biden was in this state, why did they go along with it, attack those who questioned it, and lie about it?” he said.

“This seemed to start early in the administration,” Walworth said. “The WSJ says within the first few months, they were adjusting his schedule to account for his diminished capability. This wasn’t something that declined over a couple of years. It was how the White House was running from day one.”