Asked last week by CBS News’s Major Garrett whether President Biden had the “vigor and mental capability" to continue serving, Anthony Fauci equivocated: “In my interactions with him, I have no doubt." Did the former National Institutes of Health leader find anything medically alarming about the president’s debate performance? “I think it would be inappropriate to say that, Major, because when you’re just looking at someone on a one-shot basis, you just don’t know what could happen."
Still, Dr. Fauci couldn’t help but wonder: “Did he have a bad cold, you know? Did he take an antihistamine to make him, you know, groggy, or what have you?" He declined to answer his own questions because it would be “unfair and inappropriate to try and diagnose something from just a 90-minute clip." The president’s debate stumbles looked to him “like a bad night."
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