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O Joe Biden everyone saw during the debate about the car accident with Donald Trump was the same Joe Biden that his closest confidants saw countless times behind closed doors for more than a year, according to Carlos Bernstein.
The famous Washington Post journalist spoke with the CNN presenter Anderson Cooper Monday night to discuss Biden’s dismal performance against Trump during last week’s debate ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
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06/27/24
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Citing anonymous sources, Bernstein told Cooper that Biden’s top aides have witnessed similar behavior from the commander-in-chief on “15, 20 occasions over the last year and a half.”
Bernstein said: “These are people, many of them very close to President Biden, who loved him, supported him and among them are some people who would raise a lot of money for him… “They are right that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden that we saw, is not an isolated case.”
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The legendary reporter who helped bring down Richard Nixonin Biden’s presidency in the 1970s, also referred to Thursday’s debate as a “freak show” for Biden.
Even more significant… Bernstein said, “the people from whom this is coming, and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents, including some reporters who have witnessed some of them.”
Bernstein then changed the subject and spoke about Biden’s brief address to the nation on Monday about the Supreme Court’s decision to grant Trump partial immunity in his criminal cases.
Bernstein noted that the same people who supported Biden and previously declared that he was always at his “best” were now revealing that “in the last six months, in particular, there has been a marked incidence of cognitive decline and physical infirmity.”
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06/27/24
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Bernstein was also told by his sources that Biden’s top ally Ron Klain was told that they had a “problem” with Joe, who would lose “his train of thought” and not be able to “get back to it.”
At a fundraising event in New York, Bernstein quoted his sources as saying that Biden stood so stiffly at the podium that it was as if “rigor mortis” had set in and “a chair was needed so he could do the last part of the event.”
Bernstein went on to tell Cooper that Biden aides tried to talk to Klain and the First Family about Joe’s issues, but all they got was resistance.
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TMZ.com
Axio’s Alex Thompson appeared on “TMZ Live” Monday and said Biden’s mental acuity is such that he only works from 10am to 4pm. Harvey added that he has sources who say Biden’s aides go out of their way to avoid showing up after 8 p.m. because his mind wanders and he loses track of what’s going on.