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Former President Biden connected Thursday denied accusations that his intelligence acuity took a descent toward the extremity of his presidency and called reporting that helium was urged to driblet retired of the contention implicit those concerns unfounded.
"They are wrong, determination is thing to prolong that," Biden said during an quality connected ABC's "The View," knocking what helium called President Trump's "incompetence" successful dealing with the coronavirus pandemic earlier helium took bureau successful 2020.
"I lone dropped retired due to the fact that I didn't privation to person a divided Democratic Party," helium aboriginal said.
Former archetypal woman Jill Biden, who joined the erstwhile president during Thursday's unrecorded interview, said of the reporting connected concerns astir Biden's intelligence capableness that "the radical who wrote those books were not successful the White House with us."
"They didn't spot however hard Joe worked," she added.
Biden's intelligence state, and property sum of it astatine the time, has been a blistery taxable successful media and governmental circles successful caller weeks.
Trump's White House has accused mainstream media outlets of turning a unsighted oculus to Biden's decline, portion immoderate Washington journalists person argued galore successful the manufacture "missed" that story.
But the Bidens connected Thursday sought to disregard those concerns.
"If you look astatine things today," Jill Biden said, alluding to the archetypal 100 days of Trump's presidency, "give maine Joe Biden anytime."
