Exploring and rehashing the information DEM omelette, many media outlets have started to confuse the recipe. Just a month ago, they swore – confident in their fact-checking – that Joe Biden was doing great, had the memory of an elephant, gave “rock-solid” speeches while it was Trump who was babbling, and that the accusations regarding his senility were “a wave of low-cost fake news” (Domani), “Russian propaganda foolishly followed in the West” (Jacopo Jacoboni, La Stampa) and so on, delving into conspiracy theories.
From “he’s fine” to “he’s senile”
After the disastrous debate with Trump (just a few hours before which Karl Rove assured that “the Republican candidate is losing”), journalists, editorialists, commentators, and experts who have been denying the psycho-physical difficulties of the commander in chief of the world’s largest democracy for years, downplaying them as humorous “gaffes” – when doubts about his mental fitness were already circulating, founded, since 2021 – have suddenly begun to explain to us…