Former Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain revealed in a new book that former President Joe Biden was “fatigued, befuddled and disengaged” in the weeks and days leading up to his disastrous debate with current President Donald Trump last June, providing a chilling inside look at the president’s steady cognitive decline.

“At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin,”  author Chris Whipple wrote of Klain in a new excerpt from “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, which was published by The Guardian. Klain described himself as being visibly “startled” by the president’s condition, the extent of which had been covered up by the administration, elected Democrats and mainstream media outlets for months,

“He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool,” Whittle wrote in the book, which is set to release next week.

Klain, who served as Biden’s chief of staff from 2021 through 2023, returned to the White House last summer in order to help Biden prepare for the pivotal debate with his Republican challenger. Many political analysts believe leading Democrats pushed for the June date, the earliest in the history of presidential debates, in order to gauge just how bad the president’s cognitive decline had become.

President Joe Biden walks with Chief of Staff Ron Klain along the Colonnade of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, to the White House Situation Room. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

According to Klain, Biden “didn’t know what Trump had been saying and couldn’t grasp what the back and forth was,” and would leave debate prep early. In one instance, the then-commander-in-chief fell asleep by the pool.

The ex-president’s former chief of staff further revealed that Biden would routinely “obsess” over foreign leaders, saying, “these guys say I’m doing a great job as president so I must be a great president.” It also become clear that Biden “didn’t really understand what his argument was on inflation”; and “had nothing to say about a second term other than ‘finish the job.’”

At one point, according to the excerpt, Biden hit his team with a brilliant idea he had to counter Trump during the debate. “If he looked perplexed when Trump talked, voters would understand that Trump was an idiot,” Klain recalled. “Sir, when you look perplexed, people just think you’re perplexed. And this is our problem in this race,” he recalled telling his boss in response.

During the infamous debate, Biden would frequently stare at his opponent with a wide-eyed, confused look. The optics went over terribly with voters and longtime Biden allies alike.

“That was painful,” former Obama official Van Jones said after the debate. “I love Joe Biden, I worked for Joe Biden. He didn’t do well at all. He did not do well at all.”

The debate team had prepped two separate mock debates for Biden to familiarize himself with Trump’s expected lines of attack and talking points, though most felt it had no effect leading into debate day.

“The first was scheduled to last 90 minutes but Klain called it off after 45. The president’s voice was shot and so was his grasp of the subject. All he really could talk about was his infrastructure plan and how he was rebuilding America and 16 million jobs. He had nothing to say about his agenda for a second term,” Whipple wrote.

Klain further revealed that Biden was frequently irritable at the time and would often push back on the team’s suggestions.

“25 minutes into the second mock debate, the president was done for the day. ‘I’m just too tired to continue and I’m afraid of losing my voice here and I feel bad,’” Klain said, according to the excerpt. “‘I just need some sleep. I’ll be fine tomorrow.’ He went off to bed.”

In an interview with Politico, Whipple revealed that while some Biden aides were horrified by the president’s cognitive decline, others remained “delusional” and believed that the cover-up did not go far enough.

“I have fresh reporting on an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis of Biden’s final days, and obviously his decline is a major part of the story,” Whipple told Politico on Sunday. “I happen to think that to call it a ‘cover-up’ is simplistic. I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that. Biden’s inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them were in a fog of delusion and denial. They believed what they wanted to believe.”

Biden ultimately bowed out of the race in mid-July, just days after Trump was nearly killed in an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. After opting not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris initially, he later offered his endorsement after former President Barack Obama called for an “open process” to select a new nominee.

One source close to the Biden Family described the move to endorse Harris as a “f**k you” to Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others who worked to end his campaign.

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