Biden targets Trump’s mental state: ‘Doesn’t seem cognitively aware’

Published June 30, 2020 6:18pm ET



Joe Biden flipped the script on the GOP’s constant attacks on his mental state, with the former vice president questioning President Trump’s own mental acuity.

In response to a question on what consequences the president should face if reports that he knew about a Russian government scheme to pay Taliban soldiers to kill American service members overseas were true, Biden said Trump “doesn’t seem cognitively aware of what’s going on.”

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