Biden aides discussed if president would need wheelchair if re-elected

President Joe Biden’s aides had become so concerned about his physical deterioration that they’d reportedly discussed him using a wheelchair if he won re-election.

The conversations, which were had in private among his advisers, were laid bare in a new book co-authored by CNN’s Jake Tapper that details the lengths to which the Biden administration and its allies tried to “cover-up” of his decline.

“Biden’s physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair, but they couldn’t do so until after the election,” Tapper and his co-author, Axios’ Alex Thompson, wrote in “Original Sin.”

The aides noted it was politically untenable to have an 81-year-old Biden appear on the campaign trail in a wheelchair, according to an excerpt of the book published by Axios.

“Given Biden’s age, [his physician Kevin O’Connor] also privately said that if he had another bad fall, a wheelchair might be necessary for what could be a difficult recovery.”