Bill Clinton Takes To ‘The View’ To Brush Aside Deluge Of Reports About Biden’s Decline

Former President Bill Clinton appeared on “The View” on Thursday to defend former President Joe Biden against reports about his declining health while in the White House.

Clinton asserted that he never witnessed any signs of Biden’s physical or cognitive decline when he met with him in person. He blamed Biden’s former staff for allowing the then-81-year-old to travel abroad right before the June 27 debate, where his disastrous performance ultimately led him to drop out of the 2024 race.

“All I can say is whenever I was around him, mind was clear, his judgement was good and he was on top of his brief,” Clinton said. “But look at that debate for example, what happened in the ten days before his debate and what were the White House staff thinking? He went to Europe and back twice and then he went to California once. And he was 80 years old, what the heck is he doing that for? So, why was that allowed to happen? So there’s a lot of questions I don’t know. What I do know is, we should think less about that and think more about the future.”

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The former president then suggested that presidents suffering from cognitive issues is not unheard of. He pointed to former Presidents Ronald Reagan, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1994, and Woodrow Wilson who suffered a severe stroke while he was still in office in 1919.

After detailed reports came out about Biden’s decline in “Original Sin,” a book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, Clinton told “CBS Sunday Morning” that he thought Biden was “in good shape” and that the book “did not register” with him.