{"id":20491,"date":"2024-07-03T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/karine-jean-pierre-answers-point-blank-if-biden-suffers-from-dementia-after-disastrous-debate\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:48:17","slug":"karine-jean-pierre-answers-point-blank-if-biden-suffers-from-dementia-after-disastrous-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/karine-jean-pierre-answers-point-blank-if-biden-suffers-from-dementia-after-disastrous-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Karine Jean-Pierre answers point-blank if Biden suffers from dementia after disastrous debate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answered point-blank that President Biden does not suffer from Alzheimer\u2019s or any form of dementia in the wake of last Thursday\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n

\u2018Does President Biden, at 81 years old, have Alzheimer\u2019s, any form of dementia or degenerative illness that cause these sorts of lapses? And it\u2019s a yes or no question,\u2019 a reporter asked Jean-Pierre on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u2018Are you ready for it? It\u2019s a no. And I hope you\u2019re asking the other guy the same exact question,\u2019 Jean-Pierre responded, referring to former President Trump.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s press briefing marked the first since Biden\u2019s debate performance last week that sparked calls among Democrats and legacy media outlets that the president should drop out of the election over mounting concerns over his age and mental acuity. Biden was seen tripping over his words during the debate, losing his train of thought at times, responding with a raspy voice, and he was overall slammed for having a slow and weak demeanor while squaring off against Trump.<\/p>\n

Concerns over the president\u2019s mental fitness have circulated for years, heightening in recent months after Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report described Biden as \u2018a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last month, the White House dismissed repeated recorded instances of Biden\u2019s gaffes or miscues during public events as \u2018cheap fakes,\u2019 such as the viral video showing the president standing relatively motionless during a Juneteenth concert event at the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre doubled down during the White House press briefing that the administration has no regrets over promoting the cheap fake narrative, even after the debate sparked widespread concern over the president\u2019s mental acuity, most notably among traditional left-wing allies. Cheap fakes, under the White House\u2019s definition, are understood as real videos that are cropped or edited in an allegedly deceptive manner.<\/p>\n

\u2018Not at all, not at all,\u2019 she answered when Fox News\u2019 Jacqui Heinrich asked if the administration regretted using the terminology. \u2018\u2026 Independent, mainstream fact-checkers in the press and misinformation experts have been calling out cheap fakes. And at the end of the day, they\u2019re fakes. That\u2019s what they were \u2013 targeting the president. They have said, the reporters and these misinformation experts, said that this president was being targeted. And what we did was echo them. That\u2019s what we did. And look, we\u2019ll certainly continue to call that out.\u2019<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre noted that she did not coin the phrase and that the administration took the phrase from the media.<\/p>\n

\u2018That came from the media. They called it cheap fakes. And they said this president, President Biden, was being targeted on misinformation. It was purposefully being done to this president. And what we did is we echoed that. So, I don\u2019t regret it at all. It was just the facts.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Trump campaign called for an apology over the phrase last week, arguing that after Biden\u2019s debate performance \u2018everyone sees there\u2019s NOTHING fake about Biden\u2019s decline.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The Biden White House and entire Democrat Party are both directly implicated in the greatest coverup (sic) in U.S. political history \u2013 and the mainstream media is complicit in their lies to the American public about Joe Biden\u2019s mental state,\u2019 Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital last week. \u2018They owe an apology to not just our campaign, but more importantly to the American people, for this major scandal that has led to the demise of our country over the past four years.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The majority of questions Jean-Pierre fielded Tuesday afternoon revolved around Biden\u2019s mental and physical health, with the press secretary underscoring that Biden and his allies, such as former President Obama, have noted the debate did not go well for the president but that he\u2019s \u2018fighting\u2019 for the American people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Is anyone in the White House hiding information about the president\u2019s health or his ability to do the job day to day?\u2019 one reporter asked Jean-Pierre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Absolutely not,\u2019 she answered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018After the debate, did the president get examined by a doctor, or did he get a neurological scan?\u2019 another reporter asked.<\/p>\n

\u2018A neurological scan? Look, what I can say is that, just to take a step back, it was a bad night. We understand that it was a bad night, and the president has spoken to this, and he understands that,\u2019 she responded.<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre continued in the press briefing that the administration has been \u2018transparent\u2019 about the president\u2019s health history, saying they have released comprehensive medical reports for Biden\u2019s annual checkups.<\/p>\n

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The press conference comes the same day as Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, called on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, marking the first time an elected Democrat official called on the president to bow out.<\/p>\n

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\u2018President Biden has continued to run substantially behind Democratic senators in key states and in most polls has trailed Donald Trump. I had hoped that the debate would provide some momentum to change that. It did not. Instead of reassuring voters, the president failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump\u2019s many lies,\u2019 Doggett said.<\/p>\n

Legacy media outlets, such as the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, published opinion pieces calling on Biden to bow out of the race after the debate, and former elected officials and other traditional allies of the party have made similar remarks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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