Reference Message Network reported on May 19 that according to a report by Agence France-Presse on May 17, a recording of former US President Joe Biden in 2023 was leaked, in which he repeatedly forgot important dates in his life. This incident once again focused public attention on the issue of Biden's declining cognitive abilities during his presidency.
Axios News website released the full audio on May 17. Meanwhile, an investigative new book is about to be published, revealing how the White House concealed the increasingly obvious cognitive defects of this president who insisted on running for re-election.
In the audio recorded while Biden was questioned by prosecutors over allegations of holding classified documents illegally, Biden remained silent for a long time, spoke intermittently, and had particularly prominent memory problems: he even failed to remember the date of his son's death and the time when Trump was first elected president.
Not long after, Special Prosecutor Robert Herr publicly described the 82-year-old Biden as "an elderly person with poor memory." At that time, the White House under Biden's leadership called these remarks "inappropriate" and refused to release the audio.
The new book "Original Sin" co-written by Axios News website reporter Alex Thompson and CNN reporter Jack Tapper will go on sale in American bookstores on May 20. It tells the story of how close aides to the president hid unfavorable news from him and formed a backstage team ready to defend him when he stumbled, stuttered, or fell down the stairs.
In excerpts published this week in The New Yorker, the two authors wrote that the White House under Biden "deceived the American people": despite declining cognitive abilities, he still launched a re-election campaign in the spring of 2023.
According to the description of the two reporters, Biden no longer recognized his friend, the famous actor George Clooney, and did not know where to stand on the podium. They believed that the stubbornness of Biden and his team directly led to the Democrats losing to Trump, and even Harris' lightning-fast campaign later made no difference.
Biden denied that his cognitive abilities declined in the later stages of his presidency. On May 5, he emphasized to ABC News that "there is no evidence to support this." Biden said, "After leaving the presidential race, I served as president for another six months, and I did well."
For a long time, Biden's health has been a political issue, and Trump was accustomed to calling him "Sleepy Joe."
On May 16, Donald Trump, the current 78-year-old president, said while returning to the United States from the Middle East aboard Air Force One, "I know people aged 89, 90, 92, and 93 who are doing well. But Joe is not one of them, and he has hidden many things."
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