Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has claimed she had no idea about President Biden’s cognitive decline until his disastrous performance in his debate last year with Donald Trump, which led to his exit from the presidential race.
Speaking with Ben Smith of Semafor, Psaki dismissed the notion of a “coverup” of Joe Biden’s worsening mental state.
“I never saw that person —not a single time, and I was in the Oval Office every day, that was on that debate stage,” Psaki said.
“I’m not a doctor. Aging happens quite quickly,” she added, before telling her host “coverup” is a “very loaded term,” which should only be used to describe crimes.
“People use that term as related to Watergate. Or the covering up of not sharing public information about a war,” she explained. “I think it’s a bit of a dangerous term.”
The final straw for Joe Biden’s backers was his appalling performance in his presidential debate with Donald Trump.
According to investigative journalist Seymour Hersch, the debate made it impossible to hide his decline any further, and Barack Obama and Kamala Harris stepped in with a threat to invoke the 25th Amendment if Biden didn’t withdraw from the race.
“It’s not surprising that the long overdue unraveling of President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign happened when it became impossible to keep his increasing impairment covered up,” Hersch explains.
“It was the big-time money backers of the Democratic Party who called off the game of see no evil, hear no evil, after Biden’s shocking performance in his June debate with Donald Trump. They balked at continuing to give millions of dollars to the party now that there was evidence that the president is not always there.”