Bill Clinton denied that he witnessed evidence of a cognitive or physical decline in his fellow former president, Joe Biden, after new details emerged about efforts by the White House to keep the matter under wraps.
In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” correspondent Tracy Smith brought up “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” a recently-published book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.
The book “talks about Joe Biden and the people around him seeing that he had cognitive and physical decline. Did you ever have a moment with him where you thought maybe he was unfit to run for president?” Smith asked.
“No,” the 78-year-old Clinton said. “I thought he was a good president. The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86?” Clinton…
