George Stephanopoulos asked President Joe Biden if his debate performance was a one-off thing or a symptom of some greater concern. Biden replied, “It was a bad episode.” According to body language expert Traci Brown, CSP, Biden wasn’t honest during his follow-up. “Here’s the initial trouble,” Brown said. “He doesn’t have any other explanation to the first question than the reporter gave him.” Brown referred to Biden’s enduring smile as Stephanopoulos interrogated him over the debate. “He is all smiles about the question,” she continued, adding that “someone has trained him to look alert and checked in. Yet we still saw the vacant stare when he was asked a couple of questions.”
July 5th 2024 645 pm ET A sneak peak from Joe Biden’s sit down interview with @GStephanopoulos which airs on @ABC tonight at 8pm ET
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Brown also cited Biden’s increasing “blink rate” as proof that the topic was stressful for the 81-year-old. On top of that, Biden was still slurring. “When he says it was a bad night one side of this mouth is in a slight smile, the other is in a frown so he’s very conflicted about his answer,” Brown said, indicating that he had more to say, but was choosing not to share. Brown also believed that Biden “showed many of the signs of cognitive decline” during the presidential debate. And although he was trying to compensate for it, “the signs are leaking out. And he’s not being upfront on the depth of the problem.”
