CNN’s Tapper: W.H. Physician Told Biden Aides He Might Have To Be in a Wheelchair if He Fell One More Time

SIDNER: “New this morning: President Biden‘s closest advisers privately discussed the possibility that he may need to use a wheelchair if he won reelection because his physical health had deteriorated so much. That scoop out this morning from Axios. It‘s one of the many details in the soon to be released new book titled ‘Original Sin: President Biden‘s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.’ It was written by Axios Alex Thompson and CNN‘s own Jake Tapper. Jake is here to join us now. I‘m curious about what his advisers were saying at the time, as you look at this, as you reported out, this book.”
TAPPER: “So, the White House physician, Dr. Kevin O‘Connor, was telling White House aides that President Biden‘s deterioration of his spine, the degeneration was so significant that if he fell one more time, that he might have to be in a wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair for his second term. But everybody pushed off the notion that he use a wheelchair until after the election. This is all part of a larger whole where the Biden White House tried to hide the extent of his deterioration, both physical and cognitive, as much as possible. In fact, as we all know, we all saw, as his shuffling gait got worse and worse from 2003 (sic) to 2004 (sic), they started putting aides around him as he walked to Marine One, the helicopter. That was to kind of hide from public view how bad his gait was, how bad his walking was, his shuffling, and also in case he stumbled again, to make sure somebody was there. And this is just of a piece of an overall campaign to try to conceal from the American people the extent to which the president was really struggling to do his job.”