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White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre answered point-blank that President Biden does not endure from Alzheimer's oregon immoderate signifier of dementia pursuing past Thursday's disastrous debate.
"Does President Biden, astatine 81 years old, person Alzheimer's, immoderate signifier of dementia oregon degenerative unwellness that origin these sorts of lapses? And it's a yes oregon nary question," a newsman asked Jean-Pierre Tuesday afternoon.
"Are you acceptable for it? It's a no. And I anticipation you're asking the different feline the aforesaid nonstop question," Jean-Pierre responded, referring to erstwhile President Trump.
Tuesday's property briefing marked the archetypal since Biden's disastrous statement show past week that sparked calls among Democrats and bequest media outlets that the president should drop retired of the election implicit mounting concerns implicit his property and intelligence acuity. Biden was seen tripping implicit his words during the debate, losing his bid of thought astatine times, responding with a raspy voice, and was wide slammed for having a dilatory and anemic demeanor portion squaring disconnected against Trump.
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White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the regular briefing connected July 19, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Concerns implicit the president's intelligence fittingness person circulated for years, heightening successful caller months aft Special Counsel Robert Hur's study described Biden arsenic "a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged antheral with a mediocre memory."
Last month, the White House dismissed repeated recorded instances of Biden's gaffes oregon miscues during nationalist events arsenic "cheap fakes," specified arsenic the viral video showing the president lasting comparatively motionless during a Juneteenth performance lawsuit astatine the White House.
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Jean-Pierre doubled down during the White House property briefing that the medication has nary regrets implicit promoting the inexpensive fake communicative – adjacent aft the statement sparked wide interest implicit the president's intelligence acuity, astir notably among accepted left-wing allies. Cheap fakes, nether the White House's definition, are understood arsenic existent videos that are cropped oregon edited successful an allegedly deceptive manner.
President Biden during Juneteenth solemnisation astatine the White House. (Fox News/Pool)
"Not astatine all, not astatine all," she answered erstwhile Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich asked if the medication regretted utilizing the terminology. "…Independent, mainstream fact-checkers successful the press, and misinformation experts, person been calling retired inexpensive fakes. And astatine the extremity of the day, they're fakes. That's what they were – targeting the president. They person said, the reporters and these misinformation experts, said that this president was being targeted. And what we did was echo them. That's what we did. And look, we'll surely proceed to telephone that out."
Jean-Pierre noted that she did not coin the phrase, and that the medication took the operation from the media.
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"That came from the media. They called it inexpensive fakes. And they said this president, President Biden, was being targeted connected misinformation. It was purposefully being done to this president. And what we did is we echoed that. So I don't regret it astatine all. It was conscionable the facts."
President Biden looks down arsenic helium participates successful the statement against erstwhile President Trump astatine CNN's studios successful Atlanta connected June 27, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
The Trump campaign called for an apology implicit the operation past week, arguing that pursuing Biden's debate performance, "everyone sees there’s NOTHING fake astir Biden’s decline."
"The Biden White House and full Democrat Party are some straight implicated successful the top coverup successful U.S. governmental past – and the mainstream media is complicit successful their lies to the American nationalist astir Joe Biden’s intelligence state. They beryllium an apology to not conscionable our campaign, but much importantly to the American people, for this large ungraded that has led to the demise of our state implicit the past 4 years," Trump run nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital past week.
The bulk of questions Jean-Pierre fielded Tuesday day revolved astir Biden's intelligence and carnal health, with the property caput underscoring that Biden and his allies, specified arsenic erstwhile President Obama, person noted the statement did not spell good for the president, but that he's "fighting" for the American people.
"Is anyone successful the White House hiding accusation astir the president's wellness oregon his quality to bash the occupation time to day?" 1 newsman fired astatine Jean-Pierre.
"Absolutely not," the property caput answered.
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"After the debate, did the president get examined by a doctor, oregon did helium get a neurological scan?" different newsman asked.
"A neurological scan? Look, what I tin accidental is that, conscionable to instrumentality a measurement back, it was a atrocious night. We recognize that it was a atrocious night, and the president has spoken to this, and helium understands that," she responded.
President Biden and erstwhile President Trump statement successful Atlanta. (Getty Images)
Jean-Pierre continued successful the property briefing that the medication has been "transparent" regarding the president's wellness history, saying they person released broad aesculapian reports for Biden's yearly checkups.
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The property league comes the aforesaid time arsenic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, called connected Biden to retreat from the statesmanlike race, marking the archetypal clip an elected Democratic authoritative called connected the president to bow out.
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President Biden speaks astatine a post-debate run rally connected June 28, 2024, successful Raleigh, North Carolina. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
"President Biden has continued to tally substantially down Democratic senators successful cardinal states and successful astir polls has trailed Donald Trump. I had hoped that the statement would supply immoderate momentum to alteration that. It did not. Instead of reassuring voters, the president failed to efficaciously support his galore accomplishments and exposure Trump's galore lies," Doggett said.
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Legacy media outlets, specified arsenic the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, published sentiment pieces calling connected Biden to bow retired of the contention pursuing the debate, portion erstwhile elected officials and different accepted allies of the enactment person made akin remarks.
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