Former President Joe Biden and the White House (Getty Images)
"Even Biden’s acquaintances were kept at bay," Chris Whipple, a former producer for CBS’ "60 Minutes," wrote. "Bill Daley, former White House chief of staff to Barack Obama, paid frequent visits to one of the president’s senior advisors in the West Wing. ‘I went to the White House a dozen times,’ he told me. ‘Never once did somebody say, ‘Oh, come on in and see the president.’ Never. Everything was scripted."
Joe Biden, right, and Donald Trump during the presidential debate in Atlanta in June 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The book also details how, after the debate, Biden conducted an interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos July 5 in an attempt to prove to the public his mental faculties were intact amid calls for him to exit the race.
But Whipple wrote that Biden sounded "semi-coherent" during the interview, which occurred weeks before Biden withdrew his candidacy July 21.
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"Stephanopoulos questioned the president gently, like a grandson," Whipple wrote. "Afterward, when I asked the ABC anchor by email for his impressions, he replied: ‘Heartbreaking up close.’"
A spokesperson for Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Fox News' Lindsay Kornick and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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