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Alex Thompson

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The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

He was in France. Then he was in Delaware for Hunter's trial. Then he's back to Italy for the G7.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

He was in France. Then he was in Delaware for Hunter's trial. Then he's back to Italy for the G7.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

He was in France. Then he was in Delaware for Hunter's trial. Then he's back to Italy for the G7.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

No, he has Air Force One with a bedroom. Although one of his top aides says to me, like, there's a big difference between Joe Biden getting seven hours and Joe Biden getting eight hours of sleep, which is. OK, that's interesting.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

No, he has Air Force One with a bedroom. Although one of his top aides says to me, like, there's a big difference between Joe Biden getting seven hours and Joe Biden getting eight hours of sleep, which is. OK, that's interesting.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

No, he has Air Force One with a bedroom. Although one of his top aides says to me, like, there's a big difference between Joe Biden getting seven hours and Joe Biden getting eight hours of sleep, which is. OK, that's interesting.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

It's not a defense. Right. So in any case, Clooney kind of just like goes back to movie world and files it away. It's like, OK, he's old and I guess, you know, he didn't get any sleep and it's been a crazy schedule. But then what happens at the debate? And then Clooney's like, this is what I saw.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

It's not a defense. Right. So in any case, Clooney kind of just like goes back to movie world and files it away. It's like, OK, he's old and I guess, you know, he didn't get any sleep and it's been a crazy schedule. But then what happens at the debate? And then Clooney's like, this is what I saw.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

It's not a defense. Right. So in any case, Clooney kind of just like goes back to movie world and files it away. It's like, OK, he's old and I guess, you know, he didn't get any sleep and it's been a crazy schedule. But then what happens at the debate? And then Clooney's like, this is what I saw.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

So I will say, having watched it on TV, in addition to having watched it in person, it was worse in person. And it's pretty bad on TV. He shuffles out, seems really old. He starts talking. He's obviously got a cold. His voice is already thin and reedy before the cold. So he seems really, really old. I remember thinking like when it started, when he clearly was not, you know, primed and ready.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

So I will say, having watched it on TV, in addition to having watched it in person, it was worse in person. And it's pretty bad on TV. He shuffles out, seems really old. He starts talking. He's obviously got a cold. His voice is already thin and reedy before the cold. So he seems really, really old. I remember thinking like when it started, when he clearly was not, you know, primed and ready.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

So I will say, having watched it on TV, in addition to having watched it in person, it was worse in person. And it's pretty bad on TV. He shuffles out, seems really old. He starts talking. He's obviously got a cold. His voice is already thin and reedy before the cold. So he seems really, really old. I remember thinking like when it started, when he clearly was not, you know, primed and ready.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Why did they agree to do this at nine o'clock at night? Having kept Alex's reporting in the back of my mind about how he doesn't, you know, he's sometimes 4.30, that's the end of the workday for him. Why would they do this at nine o'clock at night? And then he gives the first horrible answer, which comes like in the first five or 10 minutes, the one where he says, we beat Medicare.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Why did they agree to do this at nine o'clock at night? Having kept Alex's reporting in the back of my mind about how he doesn't, you know, he's sometimes 4.30, that's the end of the workday for him. Why would they do this at nine o'clock at night? And then he gives the first horrible answer, which comes like in the first five or 10 minutes, the one where he says, we beat Medicare.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Why did they agree to do this at nine o'clock at night? Having kept Alex's reporting in the back of my mind about how he doesn't, you know, he's sometimes 4.30, that's the end of the workday for him. Why would they do this at nine o'clock at night? And then he gives the first horrible answer, which comes like in the first five or 10 minutes, the one where he says, we beat Medicare.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Because he's having trouble. It's not just we've all had colds and we've all forgotten names and we've all forgotten names. But this was a man who could not put thoughts together and who could not explain basics of his policy. I'm not a doctor. I can't diagnose what it was. But this was somebody who was not able to communicate like he himself was able to communicate even four years ago.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Because he's having trouble. It's not just we've all had colds and we've all forgotten names and we've all forgotten names. But this was a man who could not put thoughts together and who could not explain basics of his policy. I'm not a doctor. I can't diagnose what it was. But this was somebody who was not able to communicate like he himself was able to communicate even four years ago.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Because he's having trouble. It's not just we've all had colds and we've all forgotten names and we've all forgotten names. But this was a man who could not put thoughts together and who could not explain basics of his policy. I'm not a doctor. I can't diagnose what it was. But this was somebody who was not able to communicate like he himself was able to communicate even four years ago.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

And I was shocked. We had iPads. Dana bashed my co-moderator and I so we could communicate with the control room because we can't talk. And I wrote... Holy smokes. Because I didn't know who was in the control room. I thought maybe, you know.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

And I was shocked. We had iPads. Dana bashed my co-moderator and I so we could communicate with the control room because we can't talk. And I wrote... Holy smokes. Because I didn't know who was in the control room. I thought maybe, you know.