KJP Wants You To Believe Biden ‘Was Always Engaged’ As President

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King Monday that former President Joe Biden “was always engaged” during his time in office.

Biden’s health issues and cognitive decline during his term in office have been detailed in books released since the 2024 presidential election, with one book, “Original Sin,” by CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, reporting that Biden failed to recognize Academy Award-winning actor George Clooney, a long-time supporter. King questioned Jean-Pierre, who was on the show to promote her book, about her repeated denials about Biden’s decline while she was White House press secretary. (RELATED: ‘I Was Seething’: Mother Describes Appalling Anti-Trump Bracelet Local Democrats Gave Her 8-Year-Old Daughter)

“We were on Air Force One going to the debate, you got to remember campaign people were on the team, his family was on the team. I actually was — one of those rare trips I didn’t see him until after the debate even though I was on the plane. So, really, I take — I want everybody to know that I take this question incredibly seriously, I do,” Jean-Pierre said.

“I was his White House press secretary, which means I had a role that saw him practically every day and traveled with him for more than 95 percent — we’ve always said we are not going to say, oh, he didn’t age. He aged and he poked fun at it. We always owned up and with age comes what happens when you get older,” Jean-Pierre continued, with King interjecting, “And you saw nothing?”

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The Wall Street Journal published several articles about President Biden’s declining mental acuity prior to his July 21, 2024, announcement that he would not seek reelection. Despite multiple sources confirming the reports, these articles faced pushback from other media outlets and Democrats.

On Dec. 19, 2024, the Journal revealed that White House aides had “insulated” Biden, even from his Cabinet members, as his health and mental capacity continued to deteriorate.

“What I — what I — but when we talk about the mental acuity, and, again, I take this very, very seriously, I never saw anyone who wasn’t there,” Jean-Pierre claimed. “I saw someone who was always engaged.”

“I saw someone who understood policy, pushed us on the policy, and also understood history,” Jean-Pierre continued. “And there were times — I’ll tell you this story — there were times he would call me into the Oval Office and I would be like, ‘Oh, no, oh, no,’ because I knew whatever he was going ask me was going to be direct was going to be about a story he read or about how we’re pushing back, how we’re pushing a message forward.”

In May, Biden announced he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that metastasized to the bone. Prostate cancer that has spread to the bone is usually considered Stage 4B cancer with a survival rate of 37% over five years from diagnosis, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Questions about Biden’s age and health arose during his administration and the 2020 campaign. On multiple occasions, Biden said he spoke with people who had died, including claiming to have spoken with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, and former French President Francois Mitterrand, who passed away in 1996 on two occasions in February.

In September 2022, Biden asked for former Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana at a conference on hunger that took place several weeks after Walorski and two staffers were killed in a car accident. (Click Here To Watch The Daily Caller Documentary “Cleaning Up Kamala”)

Biden also suffered multiple falls during his term in office, including one at the Air Force Academy in June 2023, a fall while on his bike in June 2022 and tripping on the steps of Air Force One on multiple occasions. Biden took a different set of stairs onto the VC-25, a modified Boeing 747 used as Air Force One, among other concessions to his age.

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