Former President Bill Clinton had no doubts about Joe Biden’s mental capacity and said in an interview that he thought the former commander-in-chief was in “good shape” the last time he saw him.
In a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview, Clinton pushed back on claims made in “Original Sin,” the headline-making new book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios journalist Alex Thompson. Though he noted that he has chosen not to read the book himself, the former president told correspondent Tracy Smith that he saw none of the signs of mental and physical decline that the book alleges about the 82-year-old Biden.
“Did you ever have a moment with him where you thought maybe he was unfit to run for president?” Smith asked, eliciting an emphatic “No” from Clinton.
“I thought he was a good president,” he added.
Bill Clinton says he never saw anything to point to Biden being in cognitive decline. He thought Biden was in perfect shape and sharp as a tack.
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“The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86?” Clinton, who is 78, said. “We’d had 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 brief.”
“You never saw any cognitive decline?” Smith asked.
“No,” the former Democrat leader reiterated. “I saw President Biden not very long ago, and I thought he was in good shape.”
“I haven’t read the book,” Clinton revealed, adding that it “never registered with me.”
Asked why he made the choice, he responded, “I didn’t want to because he’s not president anymore, and I think he did a good job.”
“And I think we are facing challenges today with our president in our history. Some people are trying to use this as a way to blame him for the fact that Trump was reelected,” he added.
The release of “Original Sin” last month came as the news broke that Biden had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” prostate cancer. Amid the bombshell teasers before the book’s release, former first lady Jill Biden pushed back on the claims about her husband.
“The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us, and they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day,” she told “The View” earlier in May.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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