Biden says he could 'beat the hell out of' authors of new book arguing his cognitive decline

Former President Joe Biden joked Friday helium could instrumentality connected those who questioned his intelligence faculties pursuing his archetypal nationalist remarks since announcing helium was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Biden’s connection comes aft respective books person been released detailing his intelligence deterioration portion successful office, including the book, "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," that was released May 20. 

"You tin spot that I'm mentally incompetent, I can't walk," Biden quipped with reporters Friday aft speaking astatine a Memorial Day event. "And I could bushed the hellhole retired of some of them."

Biden appeared to beryllium referencing the book’s authors, Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios. 

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Former U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony, astatine Veterans Memorial Park, successful New Castle, Delaware, U.S. May 30, 2025. 

The reporters' publication claims that Biden struggled to drawstring unneurotic coherent sentences for run advertisement videos, that his furniture meetings were "so scripted" and that Biden’s squad allegedly plotted a cover-up to fell conscionable however severely his intelligence faculties had declined.

But Biden’s squad has pushed backmost connected the worldly included successful the book. 

"There is thing successful this publication that shows Joe Biden failed to bash his job, arsenic the authors person alleged, nor did they beryllium their allegation that determination was a screen up oregon conspiracy," a Biden spokesperson said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Nowhere bash they amusement that our nationalist information was threatened oregon wherever the President wasn’t different engaged successful the important matters of the Presidency. In fact, Joe Biden was an effectual President who led our state with empathy and skill."

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President Joe Biden arrives for a quality league pursuing the Supreme Court's ruling connected charges against erstwhile President Donald Trump that helium sought to subvert the 2020 election, astatine the White House connected July 1, 2024, successful Washington, DC.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

In summation to the work of aggregate books this twelvemonth chronicling the deterioration of Biden's intelligence faculties, leaked audio recordings of Biden's October 2023 interrogation with former Special Counsel Robert Hur were released successful May, showing that Biden struggled to not slur his words and adjacent appeared to hide the twelvemonth his lad died.

Biden revealed May 18 that helium had an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer, and his bureau aboriginal said helium had ne'er received a prostate crab diagnosis before. Biden told reporters Friday that helium is "optimistic" astir his diagnosis and is presently receiving attraction successful the signifier of a pill. 

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President Joe Biden, left, and archetypal woman Jill Biden get connected Marine One connected the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, successful Washington.  (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)

"My anticipation is we're going to beryllium capable to bushed this," Biden said. 

Earlier Friday, Biden appeared astatine a Memorial Day sponsored by the Delaware Commission of Veteran Affairs wherever helium honored work members who had mislaid their lives. 

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"We travel unneurotic and retrieve the indebtedness we beryllium to the American military," Biden said astatine the event, sponsored by the Delaware Commission of Veteran Affairs. 

"The subject is simply a coagulated spine, the spine of our nation," helium said. "Our troops, our veterans, our subject families, and our Gold Star families successful particular. Only astir 1% of each Americans support 99% of america — 1%. Just 1% of Americans hazard the eventual sacrifice. We beryllium them truthful overmuch much than we tin ever repay them."