Chris Whipple, an author and journalist who wrote a 2023 biography of President Joe Biden, said during a CNN panel Tuesday night that Biden’s White House is the most “scripted” in modern history.
Whipple said he interviewed nearly all of Biden’s top aides during the two years he had exclusive access to the inner workings of the White House.
“I wrote the book, and I can tell you that,” Whipple said, “this White House is the most tightly controlled, buttoned up, scripted White House in modern history.”
Whipple’s book, “The Fight for Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House,” is a biography of the president, but he claims he was never allowed to interview Biden.
Whipple said he had never asked the president a question in person, over Zoom or by phone in the last two years.
“With regards to Biden himself, the deal was written answers to written questions. I’d never heard of that before,” Whipple said.
Last night’s CNN panel Wall Street Journal report The article argued that senior White House advisers were minimizing the impact of the president’s aging by cutting back on his public appearances and impromptu exchanges.
Whipple said the White House was either “hiding something” or “simply obsessed with controlling the narrative.”
Discussing his conversations with White House officials, Whipple said: “I knew he [Biden] I had cognitive problems and everyone was telling me the opposite.”
But now, after a disastrous debate performance and calls from politicians, policymakers and media across the political spectrum for Biden to drop out of the race, concerns are growing about the president’s mental health.
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos said in a recent one-on-one interview that he doesn’t believe Biden can hold onto the presidency for another four years.
Whipple said he had been told by close confidants of Biden that the president should undergo a thorough neurological exam, make the results public and “let events take their course.”
Whipple said the friend hasn’t told the president about his proposal because “it’s a hard thing for a close friend to say.”
The biographer has previously spoken out in support of the incumbent candidate, saying he is “rooting for” Biden. Guest essay published in The New York Times In January.
Whipple wrote at the time about White House tyranny and how it would hurt Biden’s reelection campaign.
“A president cannot function effectively if he is being watched by overprotective advisers,” Whipple warned.
In January, he argued that Biden’s most effective campaign was unscripted.
“The campaign would be much more successful if we let Joe be Joe, talk the way he actually talks,” Whipple said in his guest essay.
