Your daily adult tube feed all in one place!
Joe Biden mental decline stunned GOP senator TWO years ago when he confused wife for White House staffer despite swearing him in twice
A Republican senator says he witnessed firsthand that President Joe Biden was suffering mental deficits as far back as two years ago.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee said this week he was left stunned when Biden mistook his wife as one of his own White House staffers multiple times during a reception, even after she told him who she was.
The anecdote exposes yet another apparent example of the president's apparent mental decline - and significantly, one that dates back much further than Democrats have been willing to reveal.
Lee shockingly disclosed to DailyMail.com the uncomfortable interaction between his wife and the president, which is among other signs of 'alarm' about Biden's well being.
He said what really struck him was that he and his wife, Sharon, had met the president on multiple occasions.
But during that White House reception for congressional spouses about two years ago, the president did not even recognize her when she said hello to the president.
Biden asked for her name, and clearly did not remember her despite meeting many times and then inquired whether she worked for him in the White House.
And when she told him that she was the wife of Sen. Mike Lee, Biden looked confused before again asking her if she was on his staff.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, along side his wife Sharon Lee, at the White House in 2020. Lee recounted his wife telling him that President Joe Biden completely forgot who she was and asked her if she worked in the East Wing of the White House. After she told him no, and that she was the wife of Senator Lee, he asked her again if she worked in the White House's West Wing
The 'weird' interaction prompted Lee to surmise that the president isn't 'quite there,' he said on the Tucker Carlson Show.
'He swore me into the Senate twice,' Lee immediately shifted to telling Carlson, describing their many interactions over the years between 2011 and 2017.
'We had interacted with him a lot and she thought that would take care of it,' Lee said of his wife's assumption that Biden would remember her.
'He looked confused,' Sharon had said.
'He was not quite there,' the Republican senator said of Biden after telling his wife's tale.
'There was a kind of a deer in the headlights phenomenon. [Sharon] said 'it was like I was talking to somebody who wasn't aware of what was going on.'
'I've interacted a fair amount with with Joe Biden over the years, my wife a lot less, of course, but enough times that she was able to recognize what is his personality and what isn't, and she realized this is very out of character for him.'
'He just looked confused and forgot what he was supposed to do.' The Republican called the interaction 'alarming.'
Lee went on to tell DailyMail.com other instances where Biden's age and ability has concerned him.
He said he's studied Biden's heavy use of teleprompters dating back to at least 2021 among other crutches.
Lee said Biden has been the least interactive of all presidents he's served under since Obama.
It's odd how Biden, a former Senate master, has hardly interacted with the body since taking office, he went on, saying he made less trips to the hill than Trump and Obama.
The Utah senator also disclosed how Biden was 'not being careful' about reading from a script over the phone.
'Anyone who's been in politics knows that you've got staff giving you things to guide your conversations you want to be careful about not, you know, at least obviously, reading a script from a phone. And he was not being careful at all.'
Biden had been at the forefront of attacks against him as he was still running for reelection.
Senator Mike Lee pictured with his wife Sharon Lee
Even in the weeks after he canceled his campaign, Republicans have called on his cabinet, and particularly Vice President Kamala Harris, to invoke the 25th Amendment, which outlines presidential succession in the case of an incapable commander.
Videos of him appearing to freeze at public appearances and his disjointed and stumbling interviews have further fueled concerns about his health and condition.
Lee also described too DailyMail.com about how the president appeared to start showing symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, which his own mother-in-law passed away from in recent years.
The doctor's told him when she was diagnosed that Lee would start to notice real signs of decline when his mother-in-law's posture and gait became impacted.
'One day it occurred to me, my gosh, he's walking the way Carol did, he's walking the way my mother-in-law walked when what the doctors told us to watch out for started to kick in,' he told DailyMail.com.
'It's kind of a shuffle to sort of kick your feet forward. It's not a fluid motion. It's a little bit more robotic.'
'I saw that same gait and posture in President Biden during his first term in office.'
Senator Mike Lee pictured with his wife Sharon Lee
There could be other reasons for those symptoms, Lee continued, but said he also saw other clear signs of 'cognitive decline.'
US President Joe Biden pauses before addressing the nation about his decision to not seek reelection
Lee said Biden's walk is reminiscent of the shuffling his mother-in-law used to do
'He'll utter a few words in a row or entire sentence that is almost unintelligible, or that makes no sense, or that is factually or logically implausible, or he'll appear to get lost while performing a very simple task, like walking from point A to point B.'
'So when you put all those things together, and like I say, most of those things that I've put together based on publicly available information, there's no doubt in my mind that he's had a lot of bad days, probably more bad days than good ones.'