Biden's Former White House Stenographer Expresses Deep Concerns About His Mental Acuity, Says Not The Same As When He Was VP

t has been apparent to many for months that Democrat presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is suffering from some mental decline.

But until a doctor diagnosis it the only thing we can do is observe and guess at what we think the issue is in our untrained opinions.

But it carries more weight when someone who has worked with Biden in the past, his former White House stenographer, notices the change, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

“It is a complete difference from what he was in 2017,” Mike McCormick, who served as a White House stenographer for a decade and a half said.

“He’s lost a step and he doesn’t seem to have the same mental acuity as he did four years ago,” he said.

“He doesn’t have the energy, he doesn’t have the pace of his speaking,” he said. “He’s a different guy.”

McCormick’s recent book Joe Biden Unauthorized recounts his time working with Biden and takes a critical look at the former vice president, including the time he says Biden was “humiliated” by Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2011.

McCormick—who often traveled with Biden and transcribed his speeches, public conversations with foreign leaders, and off-the-record media briefings for the official White House record—said the vice president had a talent for connecting with audiences when he was in office and almost always veered off script from his pre-written speeches.

Biden’s physical stamina and cognitive health have come under scrutiny during the 2020 election, due to a series of speaking appearances in which the 77-year-old has appeared to lose his train of thought, struggled to finish a sentence, or forgotten where he is.

This is an important story. Think about it. If President Donald Trump’s stenographer said this about him CNN would be giving it the coverage it gives to convicted liar Michael Cohen and anonymous sources.

In this case it is a story that CNN is likely going to want to ignore as the network has not made a secret of its support of Biden.

“He’d just make a big joke out of it, and go straight from the hip. And notice, he’s not doing that anymore,” McCormick said.

“He read that [Democratic National Committee speech] verbatim … it’s not Joe Biden anymore,” he said.

The former vice president has been robotic, at one time last week reading the words “end of quote” from a teleprompter.

The former White House stenographer said that Biden was humiliated by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin when he first met with him and had his microphone cut off.

“He basically got body slammed by Putin, really. I mean, I don’t know how else to describe it,” he said.

“To me it was like, here’s our great foreign policy expert and he just got punk’d. And Vladimir Putin just had no fear or respect for him,” he said.

And that was when he was mentally sharp. How does anyone think he could stand face to face with Putin these days?