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The sad truth: Dianne Feinstein needs help…

by Frank Holmes, reporter

Senator Dianne Feinstein has only been back at work for a week, but old stories and new pictures are showing she should have resigned a long time ago.

Democrats contorted back-and-forth over whether to demand the 89-year-old retire back to California or show up to vote, even though she’s ill physically… and, some say, mentally.

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Feinstein left the Senate for a “medical issue” in February and returned last week, so she could vote to advance President Joe Biden’s liberal judges through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Without her vote, Biden’s plan to remake the bench ran into a brick wall — so the party pressured Feinstein to come back to cast votes, no matter how sick she is… even if she has advanced dementia.

Photos immediately showed she’s in bad shape.

In a ghoulish display, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ran out to meet Feinstein, walking alongside as her handlers wheeled the emaciated senator through the Rotunda.

The is “ready to roll up her sleeves and get to work,” Schumer said. “It’s clear she’s back where she wants to be and ready to deliver.”

Her Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Feinstein a standing ovation when she came back from her absence…

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And then immediately proceeded to a vote on judicial nominations.

But pictures don’t lie: Feinstein looks ragged and out-of-touch.

The Babylon Bee compared her to the Star Wars franchise villain Emperor Palpatine. The scene appears reminiscent of Weekend at Bernie’s, with Schumer and staffers trying to make Feinstein seem as close to a living human being as possible, said Ned Ryun of American Majority.

She looked more like mutant hero from the soon-to-be-rebooted Eighties film The Toxic Avenger, said The Federalist.

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While some of the people watching Democrats wheel out Feinstein were mean-spirited or belittling, most were sad, outraged, and genuinely heartbroken by the spectacle.

“This is elder abuse,” said Ian Miles Cheong while sharing a video of the frail-looking senator.

“Is it too much to ask for the political machine to let Feinstein rest? Or is exploiting elders the new normal in politics?” asked a conservative Twitter user.

“Elder abuse. Dianne Feinstein should be in a resident care facility, not in a Senate seat,” said a popular conservative ghostwriter. “Democrats are so desperate for a majority vote and to approve Biden’s far-left judicial nominees, they called in the frail, blank, and infirm.”

“Despicable.  They only care about the votes,” said another.

Even a few Democrats spoke out for the Senator’s well-being. “We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty,” Rep. Ro Khanna, a “progressive” leftist from California, said. “While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties. Not speaking out undermines our credibility as elected representatives of the people.”

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“The people surrounding Dianne Feinstein are exploiting a vulnerable senior. It’s criminal,” said a far-Left liberal…last year.

But most on the Left have directed their anger at Feinstein, because she refused to resign and let Governor Gavin Newsom appoint another Democrat to keep rubber-stamping Biden’s judicial nominations.

Feinstein’s “refusal to either retire or show up is causing great harm to the judiciary — precisely” when abortion “rights” are “getting stripped,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. “That failure means now in this precious window Dems can only pass GOP-approved nominees.”

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The new pictures match old stories, which are just now coming to light, of just how sick Feinstein has been.

Her aides have long said she has dementia but they kept that secret to themselves. Now, they’re speaking out.

For years, her own office had a system to make sure Feinstein never left the office alone.

If the senator moved toward the door, a staffer was on hand to accompany her, because they were reportedly afraid the dementia-riddled senator would say something to reporters that exposed her condition.

“They will not let her leave by herself, but she doesn’t even know it,” Jamarcus Purley, a former Feinstein staffer, told Rolling Stone.  

Another story broke on Politico of an incident in 2021: Feinstein could not tell one U.S. senator from another.

Sources told Washington Post reporter Ben Terris that Feinstein thought Senator Tim Scott, a possible Republican presidential candidate, was Raphael Warnock, a radical leftist Democrat.

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Feinstein approached Scott, “stuck out her hand, and told him she had been rooting for him and was so happy to have him serving with her in the Senate. It was obvious to Scott and the staffers in tow that Feinstein had mistaken the South Carolinian for Raphael Warnock, the newly elected Democratic senator from Georgia,” Terris wrote.

Scott was a good sport and “played along,” Terris wrote. “‘Thank you so much,’ he had told Feinstein, according to the staffer who told me about the incident. ‘Your support means a lot.’”

That anecdote might be dismissed, if it weren’t for numerous other on-camera events showing Feinstein’s forgetfulness.

In February, she forgot that she had retired… just one day after her announcement.

Her office released a statement from “Feinstein” revealing that “she” had decided to sit out the next election. But when a reporter asked the senator about seeking another term in 2024, she said, “I haven’t made that decision. I haven’t released anything.”

A staffer interrupted her, reminding her, “We put out the statement.”

“You put out the statement?” Feinstein said, visibly confused. “I didn’t know they put it out.”

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What other decisions have staffers been making in Feinstein’s name without her knowledge?

Rolling Stone and Politico are not exactly right-wing news outlets. Neither is the Sacramento Bee, the newspaper of her state capital—and it says Feinstein is being selfish for wanting to die in office when she’s already most of the way there.

“It seems improbable at this time, however, that the senator will do the right thing and step down,” said the paper. “That final act of selfishness will undoubtedly mar what should have been a great legacy.”

But now that she’s back, Feinstein staffers will have a chance to keep running the show in her name.

Feinstein admitted in a statement that, due to lingering “side effects,” she’ll have “to work a lighter schedule.”

But don’t worry: She’ll make all the judiciary votes.

Feinstein’s final day are tragic, because they’re predictable. The senator’s decline into dementia was so obvious that the California Democratic Party wouldn’t endorse Feinstein for her last reelection bid in 2018.

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And remember, Feinstein “ran for reelection, and won, as recently as 2018, at age 85,” points out Dan McCarthy at WND.com. “If Biden serves a full second term, he will leave office at 86. By then will he be as much a ward of his aides as Feinstein now is?”

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”

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