Bob Woodward Reports Biden Spooked Donors With ‘Frighteningly Awful’ Private Appearances in 2023: ‘Never Completed a Sentence’

Journalist Bob Woodward revealed in his new book that donors of President Joe Biden were concerned by a number of “frighteningly awful” appearances.

Woodward’s book War already caused a stir in the world of politics when he claimed Donald Trump kept in contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin even after Trump left office. Additionally, Woodward reported that while Trump was president, he sent Putin Covid-19 test machines “for his personal use.”

In a different section of the book, Woodward detailed how Biden’s behavior at multiple donor events in June 2023 left supporters questioning his fitness to serve a second term:

President Biden was also ramping up his re-election campaign, attending several fundraisers in June 2023. Silicon Valley’s tech hub was flush with important deep-pocketed cash donors. The first fundraiser hosted by Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft, at his home in Los Gatos on June 19, was attended by 38 guests, including some of the most serious Democratic donors in the valley. The event raised $2.7 million for Biden’s re-election fund. Guests, however, said that Biden was “frighteningly awful.” It was “like your 87-year-old senile grandfather” wandering around the room, saying to women guests, “your eyes are so beautiful.”

Biden, who was 80, had flown in from Washington earlier that day. A donor acknowledged he had probably woken up very early but appeared tired. “He could not wait to sit down and only took two pre-arranged questions.” He carried a handful of note cards with the answers printed out, but even then seemed to wander off point.

At another event later that day, however, attendees claimed Biden was “energetic” and “wouldn’t sit down for two hours.”

About a week later, the “troubling signs of decline” reappeared at a fundraiser in Maryland:

And after a small “meet the president” fundraiser attended by about 20 people at the home of philanthroposts Susie and Michael Gelman in Chevy Chase, Maryland, on June 27, 2023, guests described their interactions with Biden as “painful.”

“He never completed a sentence ” said Bill Reichblum , cofounder and president of Liberties Journal Foundation, who attended with his wife and father-in-law, a former U.S. ambassador to Romania. “He would start to talk about something, jump somewhere else. He told the same story three times in exactly the same way and it meandered so much. … It was striking.

“Frankly, my impression was there were times,” Reichblum said, “it was as though we didn’t exist. He was just rambling and talking as to what came into his head.” Biden seemed to Reichblum like an elderly grandparent or a parent who talks and talks but “makes no sense.”

Many wondered if it was just a “bad night” for Biden.

I would learn the significance of these fundraisers as early markers of Biden’s decline only a year later, in June 2024.