Anonymous sources “very close” to Biden allegedly witnessed “15, 20 occasions” over the last year and a half of the president’s mental decline that was put on display for the nation last week, according to legendary journalist Carl Bernstein.
Bernstein — credited with breaking the Watergate scandal alongside Bob Woodward, leading to President Richard Nixon’s impeachment in the 1970s — told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday that sources close to the aging commander-in-chief were no strangers to “that horror show that we witnessed” during Biden’s disastrous debate with former President Trump.
“These are people, several of them who are very close to President Biden, who loved him, have supported him, and among them are some people who would raise a lot of money for him,” Bernstein said.
Bernstein alleged that his sources said over the past year they had warned Ron Klain — Biden’s former White House chief of staff who helped the president prep for the debate at Camp David — that “we have a problem.”
“We have a problem such as we saw the other night. There have been numerous incidences where the president has lost his train of thought, can’t pick it up again,” Bernstein said.
The former Washington Post reporter recounted his sources telling him about a fundraiser where Biden spoke at the podium before becoming “very” stiff, “almost like rigor mortis.”