Jake Sullivan Denies that Biden Forgot His Name, Called Him ‘Steve’: ‘I Do Not Recall that Ever Happening’

BLANCHARD: “The accusation is not that he could never perform well, is that — it was that he couldn’t do it all the time, that — that he was only able to function well for a few hours in the day, that he would have moments of forgetfulness. That he would — there’s actually an excerpt in the book where it says he forgot your name in December 2022. He called you Steve a couple of times. Did that happen?”
SULLIVAN: “I do not recall that ever happening. And I will tell you Joe Biden knows my name. He knows my name like I talk to him even now. So I was surprised to read that in the book. What I will more generally say is I had to wake the president up in the middle of the night when there were crises. I had to go into him at various points when unexpected things happened, and surely plenty of unexpected things happened during the time that he was in office and that I was in the seat. I did that over the course of the four years. And I saw him operating, decision-making, executing as commander-in-chief throughout that time.”
BLANCHARD: “So you never saw — you never witnessed this thing that all these aides are talking about to these journalists, that sometimes he would just fade away. You never witnessed that with Joe Biden?”
SULLIVAN: “I could just tell you my own personal experience. I cannot speak on behalf of aides, unnamed people, and/or — and I can’t speak on behalf of what folks, you know, reacted to when they saw him operating in public. All I can do is tell you my experience with him and that’s what I’ve done.”