Former White House Chief Spills Alarming New Details On Biden’s Cognitive Decline

Former President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, Jeff Zients, admitted to congressional investigators this week that Biden’s memory had deteriorated and he needed constant hand-holding in the final years of his administration, according to multiple reports.

Zients, one of the highest-ranking aides to speak openly about Biden’s decline, spent roughly six hours behind closed doors on Thursday with the GOP-led House Oversight Committee, according to CNN. His account added new details to the long-running investigation into Biden’s fitness for office and his controversial use of the autopen for last-minute pardons.

The former chief of staff testified that after Biden’s devastating June 2024 debate with President Donald Trump, he suggested to White House physician Kevin O’Connor that Biden needed a comprehensive medical workup, including a cognitive exam, a source familiar with the matter told the New York Post. Publicly, however, then-White House staffers dismissed Biden’s poor debate performance as the result of a “cold.”

Zients told investigators that Biden’s well-known struggles with remembering names and dates grew noticeably worse over time, and decisions that had once required three meetings eventually grew to four, according to the New York Post.

The former chief of staff also revealed that the former president’s son, Hunter Biden, was involved in discussions about presidential pardons near the end of Biden’s term, attending meetings on some of the most controversial decisions, Axios