Joe Biden says books detailing his cognitive decline in final year of presidency are 'wrong'

Former President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden appeared on The View Thursday, with Jill Biden stepping in to answer a question regarding books written about Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities. 

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked, "since you left office, there have been a number of books that have come out deeply sourced from Democratic sources that claim in your final year, there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities. What is your response to these allegations and are these sources wrong?"

"They are wrong," Biden said. "There’s nothing to sustain that, number one. Number two, you know, think of what we left with. We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection when I started, not since the Civil War, we had a circumstance where we were in a position that we, well — the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, million people dying."

"We're also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, and which I won't go into, in the interest of time. And so we went to work and we got it done. And, you know, one of the things that, that, well, —" Biden said, trailing off before Jill Biden cut in.

"Well, and Alyssa, you know, one of the things, I think, is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us, and they didn't see how hard Joe worked every single day," said Jill Biden. "I mean, he'd get up, he put in a full day, and then at night, he would, I'd be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop. It's the White House. Being president is not like a job. It's a lifestyle. It's a life that you live. You live it 24 hours a day, that phone can ring at 11 o'clock at night or two in the morning. It's constant. You never leave it. 

"And Joe worked really hard. I think he was a great president. And if you look at things today, if you look at things today, give me Joe Biden any time.

President Donald Trump revoked Biden's security clearance in February, stating that "The Hur Report revealed that Biden suffers from 'poor memory' and, even in his 'prime,' could not be trusted with sensitive information."