Joe Biden's Tiny Circle

Joe Biden’s world has grown smaller. Eighteen months after leaving the White House, the 83-year-old former president moves within a narrowed circle of relatives, old friends and longtime aides as he undergoes treatment for metastatic cancer. The treatment appears to be working, according to five former aides and others close to Biden, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss his health and private life. But the disease — and the toll of treating it — has left him visibly frail. Those around Biden describe a post-presidency constrained by illness with his days increasingly organized around treatment, family and efforts to shape his legacy. Unlike some recent predecessors, Biden has maintained a limited public schedule, has yet to build a sprawling philanthropic or policy operation and has struggled to raise money for a presidential library, leaving him with fewer avenues to influence how his presidency is remembered. That frailty is likely to become harder to keep private this fall, when Biden begins promoting a memoir scheduled for publication on Nov. 17, two weeks after the midterm elections. The timing has unsettled some friends and former advisers, who worry not only about Biden’s well-being, but also about how much his visible health struggle could revive the bitter arguments of 2024 just as Democrats are trying to make the election a referendum on President Donald Trump. Trump has repeatedly mocked Biden’s age and acuity and replaced his portrait along a White House colon to exercise presidential authority for a debilitated commander in chief. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-shrinking-world-of-former-president-joe-biden/ar-AA28HIv6?ocid=BingNewsSerpnade with an image of an autopen, a visual taunt built on the unsupported allegation that aides used the device used the device to exercise presidential authority for a debilitated commander in chief.