CNN’s Jake Tapper reported that former secretaries in President Biden’s cabinet told him they were kept away from the former president during the final days of his term and when they did see him, they were concerned about his mental state.
“And it was not just cabinet members who were kept away from the president,” Tapper said on Wednesday previewing his new book alongside Axios’ Alex Thompson. “Aides who had once seen Biden regularly say they went months without seeing him. Others told us that in some meetings, Biden would mumble incoherently, something the public only got glimpses of.”
Tapper’s report was first highlighted by Mediate.
Biden dropped out of the race for president last year after he struggled to put together coherent sentences during a debate with President Trump.
Over the last several weeks, reporting from Tapper and other journalists has laid out the extent to which aides and close allies of the former president feared about his ability to carry out a second term.
The Biden family, in a statement to CNN, said “we continue to await anything that shows where Joe Biden had to make a presidential decision or national security was threatened or where he was unable to do his job.”
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