Carl Bernstein Reveals Sources ‘Very Close To’ Biden Have Been Concerned About His ‘Cognitive Decline’ for More Than a Year

CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein told Anderson Cooper on Monday that several people “very close to” President Joe Biden have been concerned about his “cognitive decline” for more than a year now after witnessing frequent abnormal incidents.

During an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 just days after Biden’s disastrous performance in the first 2024 presidential debate, Bernstein revealed:

These are people, several of them, who are very close to President Biden, who love him, have supported him – among them are some people who have raised a lot of money for him – and they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off. That there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year-and-a-half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed, and what’s so significant is the people that this is coming from and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents, including some reporters, incidentally, who witness some of them.

The veteran journalist told Cooper, “These people who have supported him, loved him, campaigned for him, see him often say that in the last six months particularly, there has been a marked incidents of cognitive decline and physical infirmity.”

Bernstein claimed that the unnamed sources had all talked to former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain – who supervised Biden’s debate prep – about the president’s growing “problem,” but were “pushed back repeatedly” whenever the topic was brought up.

“There have been numerous instances where the president has lost his train of thought [and] can’t pick it up again,” recalled Bernstein. “There was a fundraiser in which he started at the podium, and then he became very stiff, according to the people there, as if it were almost a kind of rigor mortis set in.”

According to Bernstein’s sources, Biden suddenly “became very stiff, and a chair had to be brought for him” to finish the event.

Biden’s performance in CNN’s first presidential debate on Thursday sparked panic in the Democratic Party and resulted in several members of the media, including the New York Times editorial board, calling on Biden to drop out of the race.

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