Biden Makes Alarming Admission About What He Did On Debate Stage

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President Joe Biden attributed his subpar performance in Thursday’s catastrophic debate to his extensive international travel prior to the event.

The octogenarian president acknowledged his defeat at a fundraising event in the affluent McLean neighborhood of Washington, D.C. on Tuesday evening.

He admitted to the audience that he had made an unwise decision by traveling extensively before his anticipated confrontation with the presumed Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump.

‘I decided to travel around the world a couple of times … shortly before the debate …I didn’t listen to my staff … and then I almost fell asleep on stage,’ the president said

He added, ‘It’s not an excuse but an explanation.’

After celebrating the Juneteenth holiday at Rehoboth Beach, Biden spent a whole week sequestered at Camp David in preparation for the debate.

Prior to it, he made consecutive journeys to Italy for the G7 and to France to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day.

In order to fit in the beach vacation, Biden’s advisers reportedly cut his debate preparation short by two days because he was so exhausted from his frequent travels, according to a New York Times story published on Tuesday.

Additionally, Biden was allowed time each day in the afternoon to take a sleep while at the presidential retreat, where debate preparation didn’t begin until 11 a.m.

The event was arranged in response to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s forced remark regarding the president’s dismal performance during the debate from the White House podium.

The heated discussions demonstrate how the problem of a deteriorating president will dominate the remainder of this year’s election, with anxious Democrats publicly urging Biden to go.

‘We’re not taking away from what you all saw or what the American people saw,’ said Karine Jean-Pierre.

‘We understand it was a bad night. It is not uncommon for incumbents to have a bad night on their first debate, and we are going to continue to do the work that we have been doing on behalf of the American people.’

In the White House briefing room, her explanations that the president was just sick with a cold and had no intention of stepping down were met with disbelief.

And she was barraged with follow-up inquiries, enquiring as to whether he had taken cold medicine before to the discussion (which he had not, she replied) or if there was something more gravely wrong with him.

She was asked at one point if he was ‘disabled.’

‘I think the American people deserve to have a yes or no answer on this: Does President Biden, at 81 years old, have Alzheimer’s, dementia, or some other degenerative ailment that produced these sorts of lapses?’ inquired another reporter.

‘It’s a no,’ replied Jean-Pierre. And I’m hoping you’re posing the exact same query to the other man.

The issue facing the Biden campaign and the White House is that Trump was the debate’s unambiguous winner.

Biden’s replies either stopped abruptly or veered off into strange nonsequiturs, giving the impression that he was 81 years old.

He was unable to refute Trump’s fabrications and exaggerations, and his wife assisted him in leaving the platform at the conclusion of the ninety minutes.

Since then, the unsatisfactory performance has dominated headlines, frightening Democratic funders who think his campaign is heading toward catastrophe by sleepwalking.

It won’t help to ask Biden about dementia and his expected state of affairs at the end of his second term in the briefing room.

Jean-Pierre tried her hardest to put an end to the argument. Painting a picture of a busy president going about his business, she mentioned that he would be visiting Wisconsin later this week, sitting down to speak with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, and holding a solo press conference the following week when NATO leaders would be in town.

She said that he was meeting virtually with Democratic governors, but she would not comment on whether or not the purpose of the meeting was to provide comfort.

Since then, the unsatisfactory performance has dominated headlines, frightening Democratic funders who think his campaign is heading toward catastrophe by sleepwalking.

It won’t help to ask Biden about dementia and his expected state of affairs at the end of his second term in the briefing room.

Jean-Pierre tried her hardest to put an end to the argument. Painting a picture of a busy president going about his business, she mentioned that he would be visiting Wisconsin later this week, sitting down to speak with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, and holding a solo press conference the following week when NATO leaders would be in town.

She said that he was meeting virtually with Democratic governors, but she would not comment on whether or not the purpose of the meeting was to provide comfort.

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