Democratic lawmakers continue to dodge and scoff at the notion that former President Joe Biden was suffering from rapid cognitive decline while in office.
This despite numerous accounts from close Biden aides that confirm multiple instances of mental and physical decline that began early into his term as president.
Now enter outspoken Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who now says that Biden’s actions were nothing more than “grandfatherly” — and that he’s still smarter than current President Donald Trump.
Crockett defended Biden’s mental acuity and argued that his cognition was “supreme” compared to Trump during a recent podcast interview.
Despite new bombshell revelations about Biden’s decline from the new book “Original Sin” and elsewhere, Crockett (D-Texas) claimed that she “never saw anything” from Biden that caused her to question his mental fitness.
“Even if we want to say — which I refuse to accept — that Joe Biden was mentally deficient, let me tell you something, his mental deficiency is still a thousand times better than what we currently have,” Crockett said on Katie Couric’s “Next Question” podcast in an episode that was released yesterday.
“I just wish that, ultimately, this country would judge each of our leaders with the same measuring stick.”
Crockett continued, comparing Biden’s decline to her grandparents.
She compared his condition to that of her grandmother, whom she said “mentally she was still there” despite aging and slowing down.
“We all slow down. But I will tell you that I will take a broken — or however they want to describe Joe Biden — over Donald Trump any given day, because, number one, I know Joe Biden’s heart,” the Texas Democrat contended.
“Even if you’re saying that there was a mentally deficient Joe Biden, I know that he absolutely had a mental acuity that is supreme when it comes to comparing him to Donald Trump, because at least he kept good people around him.”
“The average person has not been given the level of access that the average member of Congress has to the president,” she explained.
“I never saw anything in Joe Biden that made me wonder whatsoever, and it’s not that I was with Joe Biden every single day, that’s for sure. But as I talked about my grandparents — the way that I would describe Joe is like, I mean, he’s a granddaddy, right?”
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Questions about Biden’s cognitive abilities began to boil over nearly a year ago in the aftermath of his debate performance against Trump, in which he repeatedly lost his train of thought and appeared stone-faced at times.
The disastrous debate prompted a revolt among Democrats that ultimately led to Biden dropping out of the race last July.
Other events have been revisited in the bombshell book “Original Sin” by star Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
On Wednesday, the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Biden’s use of autopen and his supposed cognitive decline.
The House Oversight Committee is conducting a similar probe.