Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is insisting that she never had any concerns about his mental decline.
In an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Friday to promote her new book, Jean-Pierre was asked about the cover-up that took place.
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
BRIANNA KEILAR: According to my colleague Jake Tapper, who wrote a book with Alex Thompson, looking back on that, cabinet secretaries were telling them that Biden wasn’t up to the task of the proverbial 2 a.m. phone call.
George Clooney said Biden didn’t even recognize him at the fundraiser that he was hosting. I mean, we’re talking 2023, 2024, why didn’t you see — why didn’t you have concerns? Why didn’t you raise them?
JEAN-PIERRE: So I did not have any concerns. I saw him on a daily basis, Brianna. You know that. I saw him every day. I engaged with him every day.
Now, did he show age? No one is denying that. Yes, he showed age. This is a president that was sharp. This is a president that pushed his staff. This is a president that was on top of what the policies that he cared about that were important to the American people.
And let’s not forget, he also was leading a coalition, a international coalition when it came to something that we hadn’t seen in decades when it come to the war in Ukraine. There was a lot going on. You just said it in asking me one of the questions. I
It was an unprecedented time. Objectively, Brianna, we had some successes, some historic successes in the beginning of, in the first couple of years of his first term, in his presidency, and so those are the things I’m talking my personal, from my personal standpoint, what I saw.
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Despite her insistence that Biden was in charge of his mental faculties, Jean-Pierre’s latest book is entitled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.
Over the course of the book, she explains the dysfunction that plagued the Biden White House and tries to make sense of his disastrous debate performance that ultimately ended his ill-fated campaign.
“I had not seen the president because he had been in debate prep,” she wrote in the first chapter.
“So the first time I actually heard him speak was while he was debating. So when I heard his voice, I thought to myself, uh oh. He was hoarse. He kind of looked like he was sick.”
“Everything that I’ve been pushing back on — his age, is he fit — like automatically anytime he would sneeze or have a runny nose or something would happen, that would be where the questions would go.”
Jean-Pierre also claimed she was a victim of racism and was held to higher standards by want of being a black lesbian.
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