CNN’s Jake Tapper Spills On Biden Meeting That Left WH Official ‘Shocked’

CNN’s Jake Tapper connected Wednesday revealed caller details from his upcoming publication connected Joe Biden’s reported wellness decline, including that a subordinate of Biden’s medication was erstwhile near “shocked” by his behaviour successful the White House.

Tapper — portion previewing “Original Sin,” co-authored by Axios’ Alex Thompson, connected CNN’s “The Lead” — referred to an unnamed Cabinet caput who recalled Biden being seemingly “disoriented” and “out of it” successful a “rare meeting” during his presidency.

“The unit did him wrong,” recalled the erstwhile Biden medication official, per Tapper. “If you were with him each time and you knew this was a problem, wherefore didn’t you spell to him and accidental something?”

A antithetic Cabinet caput noted that they didn’t deliberation the president had “dementia” but recognized that helium was “an aged man,” according to Tapper.

“The president tin springiness you 4 to six bully hours a day,” they said of Biden.

“When helium got tired, sloppy isn’t the close word, but his defender was down.”

By past year, Tapper noted that Biden officials believed they couldn’t trust upon him to execute statesmanlike duties astir the clock, specified arsenic if an exigency came up astatine 2 a.m..

The CNN big reported that Biden’s furniture secretaries — on with his aides — “didn’t person access” to oregon didn’t spot the erstwhile president “for months” astatine a clip opening successful 2023.

“Others told america that successful immoderate meetings, Biden would mumble incoherently, thing the nationalist lone got glimpses of,” continued Tapper earlier showing a clip of Biden doing conscionable that successful January 2024.

A Biden spokesperson, successful a connection connected Tapper and Thompson’s reporting, said that the erstwhile president’s squad continues to “await thing that shows wherever Joe Biden had to marque a statesmanlike determination oregon nationalist information was threatened oregon wherever helium was incapable to bash his job.”

The connection continued, “In fact, the grounds points to the opposite. He was a precise effectual president.”

The publication — which accuses the Biden White House of covering up his information earlier helium dropped his reelection bid past twelvemonth — reportedly explores however Biden once confused astatine slightest 2 of his officials and, astatine a June 2024 fundraiser, the erstwhile president failed to recognize his person George Clooney.

H/T: Mediaite

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