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  • 5/30/2025
Speaking to reporters after a Memorial Day event in New Castle, Delaware, former President Biden was asked about the onslaught of questions about his mental capabilities.
Transcript
00:00Obviously this is also an emotional time. This is the 10 year anniversary of your son Bo's passing.
00:05You received this diagnosis just two weeks before that.
00:08Well, we're all optimistic about the diagnosis. Matter of fact, the leading surgeons in the world
00:15have worked one thing and he had diagnosed the same exact thing 32 years ago. He's alive and well
00:21and doing very well. So we're optimistic. We're optimistic.
00:24Yes. And there's also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental mental and physical
00:30capabilities while you were in office. You can see that mentally incompetent.
00:34I can't walk. You might beat the hell out of both of them.
00:37Do you want to reply to any of those reports and also to the fact that there are some
00:42Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection.
00:46Why didn't you run against me then? Do you have any regrets?
00:52No, I don't have any regrets. Look, we have a lot going on and I think we're in a really difficult moment.
01:04Not only in America, but in the world. I think they're one of those reflection points in history.
01:08And the decisions we make in the next little boys on the general weapons look like in the next 20 years.
01:17And I'm very proud. I put my record as president against any president at all.
01:23You notice that 12 of the 10 leading presidential historians made me pretty good on that list.
01:30And it's the guy I ran against that made him last. So we'll see.
01:34So you had your grandson? Thank you.

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