The Biden health cover-up is a scandal to match Watergate! And, warns DAN MCLAUGHLIN, while Cackling Kamala and her White House co-conspirators keep silent - here's when the full shaming truth will finally come out

Democrats hope they can just turn the page on Joe Biden by closing rank behind Kamala Harris.

It's not that easy.

The failed coverup of Biden's patently dire condition discredits everyone close to his White House – including his Vice President.

And it's still ongoing.

Biden should resign immediately. Every day he stays in office, Kamala and her West Wing co-conspirators are still complicit.

Who do they think they're fooling?

By dropping out of the 2024 race, Biden has finally admitted that his age and his apparent decline prohibit him from fulfilling the job of president one day longer.

He wasn't even able to face the cameras to declare his withdrawal on Sunday, instead sending in his notice via a letter posted in a Tweet.

Even aged 96, Queen Elizabeth II showed up to greet a new British prime minister two days before she died.

81-year-old Joe can't match that – and the guard has now changed without him showing face. How utterly humiliating.

His staff blame his recent COVID infection — but still, he clings to power like a barnacle. Fearsome Dr Jill remains the First Lady. Hunter still comes and goes from the White House, even after his felony gun conviction.

This has the makings of a Watergate-level scandal, and it's only just begun.

The most pressing question: Who's really in charge, and for how long have they been pulling the strings? Because, for all his gaffing and slurring and mental mishaps, you sure as hell can't persuade me it's Joe Biden!

There's long been a pattern with this administration.

We had a preview in December when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin disappeared for surgery and didn't tell anybody.

Further back, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg vanished for months on undisclosed paternity leave.

And now, we still don't really know what Joe's 'condition' is, but we can justifiably suspect that it's getting worse and prohibits him from running again.

A Parkinson's expert visited the White House eight times in a period spanning from last summer to this spring, including at least once for a meeting with Biden's personal physician.

Nonetheless, hapless Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has repeatedly insisted that all is well with the president.

Yet, for weeks, the whole country has seen the truth.

Every public appearance he's made since the last month's debate debacle has just made Americans – and our allies – all the more alarmed.

It's also finally brought out once-loyal Democrats to admit what's been going on behind closed doors (though, of course, silent they stayed until it all threatened their own chances of winning).

Even as war rages in Israel and Ukraine, Biden hasn't held a full Cabinet meeting in nine months.

His cabinet secretaries have to pre-clear their questions to the president with his staff.

His NATO press conference – held just over ten days ago, though it feels like a lifetime – was his first in eight months.

While taking questions, he referred to Kamala as 'Vice President Trump' and introduced Ukraine's President Zelensky as 'President Putin'.

On Friday, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) revealed that Biden didn't appear to recognize him at a small gathering in France last month.

His staff provide overly simplistic step-by-step pictures of where he needs to walk at events, and have been seen handing him notes that tell him something is stuck on his face.

In an interview last week, he appeared to forget Defense Secretary Austin's name, calling him 'the black man'.

The week before, he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he'd 'invented the computer chip' and that he couldn't remember if he'd watched back the debate with Trump.

Ronald Reagan, the oldest president before Biden, sat down at the end of his seventh year in office for a freewheeling half-hour grilling by the top four broadcast and cable anchors. Nobody believes Biden could handle that now.

Biden's die-hard fans say he was selfless in quitting, even though he only did so under intense, weeks-long pressure from donors and party bigwigs, including his sometime pal Barack Obama.

And even when he did quit the race, he put his party first, not the country: He refuses to leave the Oval Office, instead anointing a successor who has never won a single primary vote, and whose approval rating may be even more dismal than his.

Holed up in Delaware the past few days, Team Biden no doubt hope the conversation will move on to Cackling Kamala's campaign.

But even as access to the big guy grows increasingly restricted, even for senior Democrats, there are still a lot of people who know the truth.

Maybe it won’t be until after the election, but eventually, some of them will talk. And their stories will be explosive.