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White House aides chopped disconnected extracurricular entree to erstwhile President Joe Biden, which yet backfired and worsened his cognitive function, according to a caller book.
The book, "Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds successful the Wildest Campaign successful History," published Tuesday, claims the White House kept Biden from socializing adjacent with those helium regarded arsenic friends and allies.
Former President Joe Biden and the White House (Getty Images)
"Even Biden’s acquaintances were kept astatine bay," Chris Whipple, a erstwhile shaper for CBS’ "60 Minutes," wrote. "Bill Daley, erstwhile White House main of unit to Barack Obama, paid predominant visits to 1 of the president’s elder advisors successful the West Wing. ‘I went to the White House a twelve times,’ helium told me. ‘Never erstwhile did idiosyncratic say, ‘Oh, travel connected successful and spot the president.’ Never. Everything was scripted."
President Joe Biden astatine the White House Dec. 13, 2023, successful Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Not everyone successful the White House thought it was a omniscient strategy, according to the book. Whipple wrote that 1 White House adjutant suggested "walling Biden disconnected from the satellite was a sedate mistake."
"‘They were acrophobic helium mightiness accidental the incorrect happening oregon mightiness provender the intelligence acuity narrative,’ helium told me. ‘And truthful helium started seeing less and less people. They allowed his faculties to atrophy. But I think, similar knives, they person to beryllium sharpened. They get sharpened by rubbing them up against steel. And they don’t get sharpened by sitting successful a drawer,’" Whipple wrote.
"Uncharted" chronicles the 2024 predetermination rhythm and the aftermath of Biden’s quality astatine the statesmanlike statement with Donald Trump June 27 that prompted Biden to bow retired of the contention successful July.
Joe Biden, right, and Donald Trump during the statesmanlike statement successful Atlanta successful June 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The publication besides details how, aft the debate, Biden conducted an interrogation with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos July 5 successful an effort to beryllium to the nationalist his intelligence faculties were intact amid calls for him to exit the race.
But Whipple wrote that Biden sounded "semi-coherent" during the interview, which occurred weeks earlier Biden withdrew his candidacy July 21.
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"Stephanopoulos questioned the president gently, similar a grandson," Whipple wrote. "Afterward, erstwhile I asked the ABC anchor by email for his impressions, helium replied: ‘Heartbreaking up close.’"
A spokesperson for Biden did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.
Fox News' Lindsay Kornick and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
Diana Stancy is simply a authorities newsman with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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