{"id":2501071,"date":"2025-10-20T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karine-jean-pierre-insists-she-saw-no-cognitive-decline-in-biden-before-debate\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:35:27","slug":"karine-jean-pierre-insists-she-saw-no-cognitive-decline-in-biden-before-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karine-jean-pierre-insists-she-saw-no-cognitive-decline-in-biden-before-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Karine Jean-Pierre insists she saw no cognitive decline in Biden before debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkarine-jean-pierre-insists-she-saw-no-cognitive-decline-in-biden-before-debate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2501071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary, stated that she did not observe any cognitive decline in President Joe Biden prior to the first presidential debate.Speaking during the promotion of her new book, *Autonomous*, Jean-Pierre emphasized that Biden was &#8220;always engaged&#8221; and cognitively present, including during a trip on Air Force One where she traveled with him. She highlighted her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-voting-rights-pac-helped-group-that-pushed-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories\/\" title=\"Stacey Abrams\u2019 Voting Rights PAC Helped Group That Pushed Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories\">close working relationship<\/a> with Biden over many years, noting that while age brings changes, she never saw signs of diminished mental acuity. Jean-Pierre also disclosed that her book reflects personal disappointments with the Democratic Party,including frustrations with efforts to push Biden out of the 2024 presidential race prematurely. The *Independent* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-cuomo-threatens-n-y-lawmaker-over-nursing-home-criticism\/\" title=\"Gov. Cuomo threatens N.Y. lawmaker over nursing home criticism\">book tour<\/a> began in New York City with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >additional stops planned<\/a> in several U.S. cities. Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris is conducting her own book tour for *107 Days*, encouraging continued resistance against Republicans amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-members-wont-take-pay-during-government-shutdown\/\" title=\"Congress members won...t take pay during government shutdown\">ongoing government shutdown<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Karine Jean-Pierre insists she saw no cognitive decline in Biden before debate<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2377828\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3855982\/trump-shutdown-fight-grifters-winter-white-house-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a> press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3843063\/biden-suppression-cia-report-ukraine-trip-fbi-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> was &ldquo;always engaged&rdquo; cognitively while promoting her new book <em>Independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre announced she left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3856696\/democrats-november-1-deal-open-government-before-healthcare-open-enrollment-period\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a> in June when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3430892\/karine-jean-pierre-walks-away-from-democratic-party-follow-own-compass-independent-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unveiling her new book<\/a>, and said Monday her book is &ldquo;connected&rdquo; to her story and the &ldquo;disappointment&rdquo; she has with the party. She also confirmed she vents anger in the book at those trying to push Biden out of the 2024 race before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3476074\/unanswered-questions-biden-switch-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he did so on July 21 of that year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3857012\/mike-johnson-democrats-taste-medicine-no-kings-rallies\/\">Mike Johnson gives Democrats a taste of their own medicine after &#8216;No Kings&#8217; rallies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3856826\/florida-james-uthmeier-launches-investigation-roblox\/\">Florida attorney general launches criminal investigation into children&#8217;s game Roblox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3856906\/andrew-cuomo-curtis-sliwa-irrelevant-nyc-mayor-race\/\">Cuomo says Curtis Sliwa was &#8216;put on&#8217; the NYC mayoral ballot by party leadership<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>CBS&rsquo;s Gayle King said Jean-Pierre wrote that she flew with Biden on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3856534\/trump-boards-air-force-one-using-small-stairs-after-hunting-stand-found-at-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Air Force One<\/a> to the first presidential debate, and Jean-Pierre wrote she &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t see anything.&rdquo; Jean-Pierre said Biden&rsquo;s campaign and family were also on the plane with the former president, and this was a rare trip where &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t really see him until after the debate.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So really, I want everybody to know that I take this question incredibly seriously. I do. I was his White House press secretary, which means I had a role that saw him practically every day and traveled with him for more than 95%. We&rsquo;ve always said, &lsquo;We&rsquo;re not going to say, oh, he didn&rsquo;t age.&rsquo; He aged, and he poked fun at it. We always owned up and with age comes what happens when you get older,&rdquo; Jean-Pierre said on <em>CBS Mornings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3191276&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=463ca7149106b687378043f70c927b4d\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jean-Pierre also said she takes questions about Biden&rsquo;s &ldquo;mental acuity&rdquo; seriously, but she &ldquo;never saw&rdquo; Biden indicating he &ldquo;wasn&rsquo;t there.&rdquo; She added that Biden would sometimes call her in the Oval Office, and he would ask her &ldquo;direct&rdquo; questions.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre testified to the House Oversight Committee last month, and said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3804766\/karine-jean-pierre-house-oversight-committee-autopen-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she didn&rsquo;t see any change in Biden&rsquo;s &ldquo;competency&rdquo;<\/a> in the 16 years she&rsquo;d known him. She did admit Biden is not the &ldquo;same speaker&rdquo; compared to when she first met him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3855876\/shapiro-warned-biden-struggling-2024-campaign-before-dropped-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>JOSH SHAPIRO WARNED BIDEN &lsquo;DIRECTLY TO HIS FACE&rsquo; ABOUT STRUGGLING 2024 CAMPAIGN BEFORE EX-PRESIDENT DROPPED OUT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Independent<\/em> book tour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1407341480750373&amp;id=100044236038841&amp;set=a.269544717863394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kicks off in New York City<\/a> on Monday, a day before its official<em> <\/em>release. Other tour stops include Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Boston, Massachusetts, on Friday, and Chicago, Illinois, on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3849334\/kamala-harris-book-tour-destroying-any-chance-future-office-runs-joe-concha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a> is doing her own book tour for <em>107 Days<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3855996\/harris-says-democrats-are-doing-the-right-thing-resisting-republicans-on-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">She encouraged her party to continue fighting Republicans<\/a> in the government shutdown at the tour&rsquo;s most recent stop in Birmingham, Alabama. <a href=\"https:\/\/107daysbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Her next tour stop<\/a> is set for Thursday in London, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Pierre says Biden showed no cognitive decline before debate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2501074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ap-karine-jean-pierre-and-joe-biden.jpg?1760961931&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[3620,34538,32635],"class_list":["post-2501071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-cognitive-decline","tag-karine-jean-pierre"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ap-karine-jean-pierre-and-joe-biden.jpg?1760961931&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501076,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501071\/revisions\/2501076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}