Firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended former President Joe Biden’s mental acuity and argued that his cognition was “supreme” compared to President Trump during a recent podcast interview.
Shrugging off bombshell revelations about Biden’s decline from the new book “Original Sin” and elsewhere, Crockett (D-Texas) underscored that she “never saw anything” from the 46th president that caused her to question his infirmity.
“Even if we want to say — which I refuse to accept — that Joe Biden was mentally deficient, let me tell you something, his mental deficiency is still a thousand times better than what we currently have,” Crockett said on Katie Couric’s “Next Question” podcast in an episode that dropped Thursday.
“I just wish that, ultimately, this country would judge each of our leaders with the same measuring stick.”
Questions about Biden’s cognitive abilities reached a fever pitch almost exactly a year ago in the aftermath of his fumbling debate performance against Trump, in which he repeatedly lost his train of thought and appeared stone-faced at times, mouth agape.
The stunning debate prompted a revolt among Democrats that ultimately culminated with Biden dropping out of the race in July of last year.
Recently, those dramatic events have been revisited in the bombshell book “Original Sin” by star Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper, triggering soul searching among Democrats over Biden, who announced his prostate cancer diagnosis last month.
On Wednesday, the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Biden’s use of autopen and his supposed cognitive decline. The House Oversight Committee is conducting a similar probe.
Crockett had stood by Biden during the Democratic revolt last summer. She likened his condition to that of her grandmother, whom the rep said “mentally she was still there” despite aging and slowing down.
“We all slow down. But I will tell you that I will take a broken — or however they want to describe Joe Biden — over Donald Trump any given day, because, number one, I know Joe Biden’s heart,” the Texas Democrat contended.
“Even if you’re saying that there was a mentally deficient Joe Biden, I know that he absolutely had a mental acuity that is supreme when it comes to comparing him to Donald Trump, because at least he kept good people around him.”
The outspoken Texas congresswoman also recalled her personal interactions with Biden to argue that he was not in significant decline during his time running the country.
“The average person has not been given the level of access that the average member of Congress has to the president,” she explained.
“I never saw anything in Joe Biden that made me wonder whatsoever, and it’s not that I was with Joe Biden every single day, that’s for sure. But as I talked about my grandparents — the way that I would describe Joe is like, I mean, he’s a granddaddy, right?”
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