GUNTER: Is media finally getting wise to Biden's obvious mental decline?

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Until former U.S. President Donald Trump got his right ear pierced by a sniper’s bullet during a campaign rally last Saturday in Pennsylvania, the biggest international news for the preceding two weeks had been current President Joe Biden’s bumbling, incoherent performance in a head-to-head debate against Trump during the last week of June.

Had Biden’s performance proven he has dementia? Would he drop out of this fall’s presidential race? Would his Democratic party force him out?

The infuriating aspect of the coverage was the surprise shown by major American news organizations over the state of Biden’s mental health.

They claimed to have been duped by Biden’s White House staff. They had been reassured by those closest to the president that he was fine. His closest advisors kept saying the apparent memory lapses, forgotten names, incomplete sentences, the sudden freeze-ups on stage were all creations of dastardly Republicans skilled at selective editing and fake video making.

Frankly, anyone who believed before the debate that Biden was mentally sharp enough to be president was believing what they wanted to be true.

So hated is Trump among the glitterati and media elites that if they thought Joe Biden had the best chance to keep The Donald from winning in November, they were prepared to turn blind eyes to any and every Biden foible.

So their sudden turn on Biden is unforgivable. It has been obvious for years, even to casual observers, that Biden was in mental decline. (I think the technical term is gaga.)

I recall six months after he was sworn in in 2021, Biden attended the G7 summit in Cornwall, England. One morning, he lost his way in the restaurant of the summit resort and had to be rescued by his wife Jill, who gently took him by the hand and led him back where he was supposed to be.

Since then, of course, there have been dozens of examples of the president’s mental stumbles, culminating in June’s debate disaster.

Reporters who claimed not to have noticed Biden’s decline before June 27 had to have been doing their damnedest not to see. It was that obvious.

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Now, before turning to the attempted assassination on Trump and its affect on the U.S. election, let me say: I don’t like Donald Trump. He’s a bully and a boor.

To the extent his policies are the right ones, it is accidental and coincidental. He may be right on something one day, then turn around the next and be completely wrong. That’s because he is a panderer and a blowhard.

Still, if there was any doubt whether Trump is going to defeat Biden in November, it was dispelled when he was wounded in Butler, Pennsylvania last weekend.

Much of the voting public’s assessment of candidates comes from visual cues. And there was Trump, just seconds after dodging death, with Secret Service agents trying to drag him to his limo, raising a fist in the air and shouting to the crowd “Fight! Fight!”

The contrast couldn’t be clearer.

On the one hand you have doddering Old Joe, who repeatedly has to be led off stage after a switch in his brain appears to flip off. While on the other, you have Trump with the presence of mind to do a fist pump seconds after being winged in the ear.

You may hate Trump, but lots of American voters realize they will be voting for someone to lead the world in future crises. Who would you want, Lost Joe or Obnoxious Donald?

Admittedly, it’s a bad choice, but it’s the one the Americans have.

Biden’s staff insist he is very sharp from mid-morning to late afternoon. Let’s hope the West’s enemies do us the courtesy of attacking only during office hours, Eastern time, Monday through Friday.