One of Biden's 'closest friends' wants him to take a 'full neurological exam' and release the results, biographer claims

Biden biographer Chris Whipple said Tuesday nighttime that 1 of nan president's 'closest friends' thinks he should get a 'full neurological exam' arsenic questions continue to heap up astir nan 81-year-old's cognitive state.  

Whipple sat down pinch CNN's Abby Phillip arsenic Biden continued to conflict for his governmental endurance aft past month's disastrous statesmanlike statement performance. 

So far, Biden has refused to beryllium down for a caller cognitive exam, telling ABC News' George Stephanopoulos connected Friday, 'I've already done it,' pointing to nan beingness he received from nan White House expert earlier this year. 

'I will show you that 1 of nan president's closest friends thinks that Joe Biden should spell up to Walter Reed, person a complete neurological exam, merchandise nan results, and fto nan chips fall,' Whipple said Tuesday. 

The author, who penned nan 2023 biography The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House, was unsure if nan connection had been delivered. 

'Now, I don't deliberation that friend has said this retired large to Joe Biden because that's a difficult point moreover for a adjacent friend to show him, but I don't deliberation he's going location without a awesome push,' Whipple told Phillip. 

Biden and nan White House person resisted greater transparency concerning nan president's wellness connected nan heels of nan statement and respective 'freezing' moments, which property caput Karine Jean-Pierre called 'cheap fakes' and suggested nan president was a unfortunate of deceptive editing. 

Jean-Pierre botched nan mentation of whether aliases not nan president saw his expert successful nan days earlier and aft nan debate. 

Biden said while it wasn't an 'excuse,' he was suffering from a acold onstage successful Atlanta. 

And past Jean-Pierre changed her story aft telling reporters that a gathering betwixt nan president's individual expert and a neurologist who specializes successful Parkinson's disease was not related to Biden's individual care. 

The January 17 White House gathering was portion of nan president's yearly beingness examination, she later explained. 

Whipple said that nary of his sources thought Biden was ailing, moreso that he was showing his precocious age. 

The biographer told Phillip, 'by each accounts, nan group I said to, including his closest friends, his soul circle, they each said that Biden was good cognitively.' 

'He evidently walked for illustration a zombie because he has arthritis and each nan remainder of it, but no, I didn't get immoderate denotation that he was cognitively impaired, and everybody insisted otherwise,' Whipple told nan TV host. 

The writer besides revealed that nan president refused to speak to him by telephone for their interviews arsenic he was penning his book, alternatively requesting written questions which he past answered. 

This has been a hallmark attack of nan Biden White House arsenic nan president's soul circle has constricted off-the-cuff interactions betwixt nan president, property and nan public. 

Whipple described it arsenic nan astir 'scripted White House successful modern history.'