Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) struggled to justify her protection of former President Joe Biden’s psychological acuity when grilled over it throughout a latest podcast interview.
“Do you regret saying that President Biden had a mental acuity, he had a sharpness to him?” Sam Fragoso, host of “Talk Easy,” requested the Massachusetts Democrat in an interview posted on Sunday.
“You said that up until July of last year,” Fragoso added, noting that Warren had backed Biden up till he bowed out of the 2024 presidential race.
“I said what I believe to be true,” Warren responded.
When Fragoso pressed, asking the senator if she believed Biden “was as sharp as you,” Warren paused and gave the impression to be holding again laughter.
“I said I had not seen decline … and I hadn’t at that point,” the senator claimed.
Warren argued that when she defended Biden, together with instantly after his shockingly poor debate efficiency in opposition to President Trump, she had not seen any discernible distinction in his psychological health from the Biden she knew in 2021.
“You know the – the thing is, he is, look, he was sharp. He was on his feet. I saw him at live events. I had meetings with him a couple of times …” Warren rambled, earlier than Fragaso interrupted her.
“‘On his feet’ is not praise,” the surprised podcast host instructed Warren. “‘He can speak in sentences’ is not praise.”
Warren, once more, appeared to wrestle to comprise her laughter.
“Alright. Fair enough. Fair enough,” she responded, backing down from her protection of the previous president after which altering the topic.
Biden administration officers and Democrats have confronted criticism for allegedly masking up the previous president’s psychological and bodily decline within the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.
Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), for instance, publicly downplayed reviews of Biden’s cognitive decline up till the previous president’s disastrous June 27 debate whereas privately expressing her issues, in line with creator Chris Whipple’s new ebook, “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.”
“He was not the same Joe Biden,” Pelosi reportedly instructed a pal of the then-president’s situation after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom award throughout a Might 2024 White Home ceremony.
The White Home occasion befell precisely a month earlier than Biden’s dramatic decline was detailed in a Wall Road Journal report, the place greater than 45 Republican and Democratic lawmakers and staffers described a president who spoke so softly throughout conferences that individuals struggled to know him; didn’t seem to know what insurance policies had been in place; and relied on staffers to reply direct questions.
Pelosi, nevertheless, slammed the report as a “hit piece.”
