Biden’s Communications Director Calls Questions About His Mental Health a ‘Disgusting Smear Tactic’

Questions about presidential hopeful 👤Joe Biden’s mental health are swirling as videos of him appearing to be confused or forgetting information are spreading on social media.

But, the Biden campaign says questions about his mental health are not fair game and suggested that they are being weaponized by his opponents to hurt him politically.

During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday, Biden campaign Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said questions about the former vice president’s mental health are smears.

“This is a disgusting smear tactic and this kind of thing is exactly why people want 👤Joe Biden to be president. This kind of false, you know, misleading, basically a conspiracy theory.”

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Co-host Ed Henry jumped in to ask how they can be called a “smear tactic” when there are unedited videos of Biden stumbling over words. Bedingfield asked, “Respectfully, how many times have you struggled to complete a sentence on air?”

“I’m not running for president,” Henry responded.

Bedingfield suggested that President Donald Trump has been trying to raise questions about Biden’s mental acuity because he is “scared” about the general election.

“If I’m 👤Donald Trump and I saw 👤Joe Biden last night giving the speech that he gave sounding presidential, looking like a leader, if I’m looking at the turnout that he is generating across the country, I’m scared too and I’m starting to throw this kind of nonsense against the wall.”

As Biden has emerged as the front runner for the Democratic nomination, social media users have shared videos of Biden stumbling over a sentence or getting confused and raised questions about his mental health.

However, Twitter recently labeled a video of Biden, retweeted by Trump, “manipulated” because it was edited and took Biden’s comments out of context.

The Trump campaign, however, pushed back and argued that it was not manipulated.

One group of mental health professionals recently told Yahoo News they are not concerned about Biden, but they are worried about Trump’s mental health.

“A few stumbled words are not the same as the extreme danger that result from a list of signs that 👤Donald Trump has shown,” said Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee.

However, in March 2019, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway said she does not “share those concerns” about Trump’s mental health.