The publication of an audio recording of Joe Biden dating from 2023, in which the Democratic president loses the thread of great dates of his life, puts the light on the decline of the leader’s abilities when he was still in power.
The soundtrack, published on Saturday, May 17, in its entirety by the axious media, is added to the next publication of a research book that tells how the White House concealed the growing weaknesses of an octogenarian for the world that has long hung its attempt to re -election.
Long silences, intercalated sentences and especially memory problems: this interview with Joe Biden with a prosecutor in a retention of confidential documents exhibits a man who no longer remembers the date of the death of his son or that of the first election of Donald Trump.
The president of Octagenaire also confesses to having wanted to keep him in a confidential document linked to war in Afghanistan “only for posterity.”
“Elder man with bad memory”
The special prosecutor Robert Hur had publicly described the 82 -year -old president today, as an “older man with a bad memory”, and the White House of the Democrat had judged these “inappropriate” words.
This recording is one of the pieces of a puzzle, that of the dramatic decline of an president between his electoral victory in 2020 and his calamite debate against Donald Trump in June 2024, who presented his difficulties of expression and finally pushed him to throw in the towel and pass his hand to Kamala Harris in the electoral campaign, finally lost.
The book event that will be in the bookstores on Tuesday in the United States tells how the loved ones of the Democrat have isolated him from the bad news and formed, around him in the White House, a last square ready to defend him in front of his mistakes, his flouts and his falls on the stairs.
“Original sin”
Written by journalists Alex Thompson, of Axios, and Jake Tapper, of CNN, the book describes the “original sin” is the title of the book (“Original Sin”), by Joe Biden: after having launched in the spring of 2023 in a selection campaign despite its cognitive deterioration.
According to the authors, the obstinacy of Joe Biden and his relatives directly led to the Democratic defeat against Donald Trump, despite the flash campaign of Kamala Harris. “As a party, Biden fucked us so much,” admits to the authors David Plouffe, a former Barack Obama advisor.
The two journalists describe a president who seems not to recognize his friend, actor George Clooney, or who no longer knows where to move in a column, as well as the great shame of his followers, until many encourage him, after his catastrophic debate, to leave the race.
Joe Biden, who left the White House in January, denies having suffered a cognitive decline at the end of his mandate.
“Nothing allows you to affirm this,” he told ABC in early May. “After retiring from the presidential race, I was still president for six months, and I did a good job. But what scared everyone was this debate.”
Source: BFM TV
