Former President Joe Biden’s White House staffers considered giving him a cognitive test before gearing up for his second campaign, but they feared doing so would only draw attention to his age, a new book claims.

Despite being confident he would pass the test, they felt reporting on the test would just draw further attention to his age and feed conservative media and President Donald Trump narratives that Biden was unfit to serve a second term, The New York Times reported Sunday.

The report cited excerpts from “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” written by a trio of staffers from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. All three publications are frequently rebuked by Trump to be not only Democrat-leaning, but active in holding anti-Trump animus in their reporting on the campaign and his presidential terms.

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