Headline Roundup • July 2nd, 2024
Sources Close to Biden Reportedly Cite Multiple Incidents of Cognitive Decline
Summary from the AllSides News Team
According to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein sources close to President Joe Biden have spoken to more than a dozen incidents of the president's cognitive decline over the past year and a half.
Key Details: Biden reportedly has good days and bad days, but there have been at least 15 incidents of cognitive decline and physical infirmity, according to the anonymous sources cited by Bernstein.
Key Quote: "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 have witnessed some of them," said Bernstein.
For Context: These reports come after his weak debate performance on June 27. That performance also led to some Democratic funders and liberal media outlets calling for Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
How the Media Covered it: The Daily Beast (Left bias) also noted Bernstein's comment that for two years, he has been told how sharp Biden is in national security meetings. Sources across the political spectrum noted Bernstein's comment that he had been told over the past year that top Biden ally Ron Klain had been warned about Biden's problem with losing his train of thought in meetings.
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Anonymous sources reportedly close to President Biden have allegedly witnessed "15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half" similar to what the country saw at last week's presidential debate.
"These are people, several of them who are very close to President Biden who loved him, have supported him and among them are some people who would raise 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...
Journalist and author Carl Bernstein reports on sources that tell him President Biden has "good days, he has bad days" and that he has had at least 15 incidents in the last year that were similar to the performance he delivered at the presidential debate.
"But here we see tonight, as these people say, President Biden at his absolute best," Bernstein told CNN host Anderson Cooper. "And yet, these people who have supported him, loved him, campaigned for him, see him often, say that in the last six months particularly,...
Carl Bernstein, the former Washington Post reporter and current CNN political analyst, said on the air Monday that he has heard from sources “very close” to President Joe Biden who say that his poor debate performance last Thursday was not a rarity.
As concerns about the president’s age and fitness for office mount, Bernstein told AC360 anchor Anderson Cooper that his sources “are adamant that what we saw the other night—the Joe Biden we saw—was not a one-off,” and “that there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year, year and a half, when the president has appeared somewhat...
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