Biden makes staggering admission about his mental health

Joe Biden got saucy with a reporter who asked him about questions about his mental capabilities.

‘You can see that I was mentally incompetent and I can’t walk and I can beat the hell out of both of them,’ he joked to a reporter after speaking at a service in honor of Memorial Day.

The former president down played remarks from Democrats he should have exited the 2024 race much earlier, saying: ‘I could have beaten them.’

The remarks were the first ones Biden made since his cancer diagnosis. 

‘The expectation is we’re going to be able to beat this,’ he said/

Earlier Friday, he and Jill Biden attended mass in Wilmington, Del., on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of their son Beau.

The former first couple were seen at St. Joseph on the Brandywine, the Catholic Church were Beau is buried. 

The public sighting comes as the former president battles prostate cancer and the former first lady is facing calls to testify about her role in an alleged coverup of Joe Biden’s health while he was in office.

Beau Biden died of glioblastoma, a very aggressive type of brain cancer, in 2015. The Bidens go to church every year on the anniversary of his death and visit his grave. 

Former President Joe Biden, with his wife Jill Biden, walks to St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church for services marking the anniversary of the death of Beau Biden

Earlier this month Joe Biden announced he’s been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. 

The cancer has metastasized and spread to his bones, a statement from his office revealed, adding that the family is deciding on treatment options. 

The news, along with new reporting about efforts by Biden’s core team of advisors to shield him from scrutiny, has prompted a renewed focus on Biden’s health while in office, as well as the role Biden loyalists played.

The questions resulted from the publication of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book ‘Original Sin,’ which alleges a cover up of the then-president’s condition.

The book, however, also notes the Biden family wanted to keep Beau Biden’s cancer diagnosis a secret and misled the media about his condition.

‘Beau’s cancer treatment also demonstrated the Biden’s capacity for denial and the lengths they would go to to avoid transparency about health issues, even when the person in question is an elected official, in this case the sitting attorney general of Delaware,’ the book says.

Beau Biden was diagnosed in 2013 after collapsing during a family vacation. He later had surgery to remove a brain tumor. 

In September 2013,’ Biden and Beau’s team internally debated how much to disclose about Beau — the vice president’s son and a state’s top law enforcement officer — but ultimately said nothing,’ the book said. ‘In November, Beau told a local reporter he had been given a ‘clean bill of health.’

However, the book says Beau continued to receive treatment and even checked into hospitals under the name George Lincoln in order to shield his real identity. 

Joe Biden, who was then vice president, often traveled with his son to support him in his treatment but, according to Tapper and Thompson, ordered his aides to mislead the press and public about his location. 

Joe Biden in the graveyard of St. Joseph on the Brandywine church, where Beau is buried 

Then-Vice President Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Beau Biden and Hallie Biden (Beau’s wife) at the vice president’s residence in February 2012

Meanwhile, House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer has requested to interview four former Biden aides and former White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor about Joe Biden’s health.

And, on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Jill Biden should be included in that request. 

‘Jill Biden was certainly complicit in that cover up,’ Leavitt told said.

‘Frankly, the former first lady should certainly speak up about what she saw in regards to her husband and when she saw and what she knew,’ Leavitt said.

She continued to pile on Jill Biden: ‘She was saying everything is fine. She’s still lying to the American people. She still thinks the American public are so stupid … And frankly, it’s insulting and she needs to answer for it.’