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CNN "Biden Cognitive Decline for Over a year"

CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein revealed on Monday that close associates of President Joe Biden have been worried about his cognitive decline for over a year, following numerous concerning incidents, particularly highlighted by his recent debate performance.

 


CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein shared with Anderson Cooper on Monday that several individuals "very close to" President Joe Biden have been worried about his "cognitive decline" for over a year after observing numerous unusual incidents.

 

During his appearance on Anderson Cooper 360, just days after Biden's troubled performance in the first 2024 presidential debate, Bernstein disclosed:

 

"These are people, several of them, who are very close to President Biden, who love him, have supported him – among them are some people who have raised a lot of money for him – and they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off. There have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year-and-a-half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed, and what’s so significant is the people that this is coming from and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents, including some reporters, incidentally, who witness some of them."

 

The veteran journalist told Cooper, “These people who have supported him, loved him, campaigned for him, see him often say that in the last six months particularly, there has been a marked increase in incidents of cognitive decline and physical infirmity.”

 

Bernstein claimed that these unnamed sources had discussed their concerns with former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who supervised Biden’s debate preparation, but were “pushed back repeatedly” whenever the topic was brought up.

 

“There have been numerous instances where the president has lost his train of thought [and] can’t pick it up again,” Bernstein recounted. “There was a fundraiser in which he started at the podium, and then he became very stiff, according to the people there, as if a kind of rigor mortis had set in.”

 

According to Bernstein’s sources, Biden suddenly "became very stiff, and a chair had to be brought for him" to finish the event.

 

Biden’s performance in CNN’s first presidential debate on Thursday has caused panic within the Democratic Party and led several media outlets, including the New York Times editorial board, to call on Biden to withdraw from the race.

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