Is it possible Bill didn’t know?
During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, former President Bill Clinton claimed he didn’t see any signs of cognitive decline while interacting with former President Joe Biden.
Clinton made the claim after being asked about CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s new book, Original Sin, which chronicles the cover-up of Biden’s diminished mental capacities.
The book “talks about Joe Biden and the people around him seeing that he had cognitive and physical decline. Did you ever have a moment with him where you thought maybe he was unfit to run for president?” correspondent Tracy Smith asked the former POTUS.
“No,” Clinton said. “I thought he was a good president. The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86? And we did several long talks. I had never seen him and walked away thinking, He can’t do this anymore. He was always on top of his briefs.”
When pressed, Clinton added, “No. So, I didn’t know anything about any of this. And I haven’t read the book. And I saw President Biden not very long ago, and I thought he was in good shape. But the book didn’t register with me ’cause I never saw him that way.”
Clinton said he “didn’t want to” read the book because Biden is “not president anymore, and I think he did a good job. And I think we are facing challenges today without precedent in our history. And some people are trying to use this as a way to blame him for the fact that Trump was re-elected.”
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Bill Clinton denies seeing Biden show any signs of cognitive decline
To be fair, he also denied the Monica Lewinsky scandalpic.twitter.com/7AwYfsDa8X
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