Ana Navarro Defends Biden’s Mental Acuity: He Was a ‘Completely Different Person’ 24 Hours After the Debate

PHILLIP: “And I know that Joe Biden is a friend. But in this excerpt, the part about the pool he went off, this is in the middle of the debate prep, went off to the pool, and he took a nap. And that was before the biggest debate of this campaign. That‘s not even the governance of the country. So, Joe Biden, maybe he has the best intentions. I‘m sure that you believe that, but the right decision, it seems pretty unequivocally, is that he should not have run for reelection.”
NAVARRO: “Look, I was also just texting with Ron Klain and — who vehemently says he was taken out of context. I‘ll tell you my experience, which is what I can talk about. I‘ve known Joe Biden for over 25 years. Certainly, the Joe Biden today is not the Joe Biden of five years ago, 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 25 years ago. It‘s not. But also I will tell you, and I think that comes out also in the book and the excerpt that I read, something clearly happened that day, around those days. That was not the case the day after. I saw Joe Biden 24 hours after that debate here in New York. He was a completely different person. I saw Joe Biden when he came to ‘The View’ after he dropped out, and he was a completely different person than what we saw at that debate. What happened around those days, I don‘t know. And can I tell you something? I don‘t care because I want to talk about the future and how we get — we fight Donald Trump and how we get rid of Donald Trump.”
AIDALA: “He was not a completely different person. He did the Stephanopoulos debate interview to try to save him. He did your show to try to save him. He just — look, he‘s the guy who‘s in his mid 80s, I‘m not faulting him. He just wasn‘t the Joe Biden who was elected four years ago.”
NAVARRO: “He wasn‘t. He wasn‘t the one.”
AIDALA: “And his family should have pulled the plug.”
NAVARRO: “I said that.”
AIDALA: “His own family should have pulled the plug.”
SINGLETON: “Well, they should have, and so should his advisers. I mean, talk about a big coverup. And we‘ve been talking a lot about Donald Trump lately. You know, I just want to ask a simple question: Who in the heck was running the country? If the president‘s mental acuity was in question, and some days he‘s on and some days he‘s off, was the guy really capable of doing the job day-to-day? I honestly really question that. And I think a lot of Democrats who said at the time, ‘Oh, Joe Biden is the fittest guy in the world, he could do backflips, he could jump into the pool and run marathons, do 100 pushups,’ when every freaking person who saw Joe Biden said, ‘There‘s no way in hell this guy is physically fit.’ But they told us, ‘Don‘t believe your lying eyes because we‘re with him every single day.’ It wasn‘t true. It wasn’t true.”