Joe Biden jokes he can ‘beat the hell out of’ critics in bizarre response to mental health probe

Biden was defiant in the face of criticism as commentators question whether he should have ran for presidency once more.

After becoming the oldest ever sitting president, Biden ran for a second term before pulling out of the race in July last year.

This allowed for his vice president, Kamala Harris, to run on the Democrat ticket in a botched attempt to defeat President Trump.

Speaking to reporters, Biden delivered a sarcastic response to questions about his mental competence.

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“You can see that I’m mentally incompetent and I can’t walk and I can beat the hell out of both of them”, he said.

He was referring to journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, co-writers of Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.

In a candid health update, Biden said he is “optimistic” about the treatment plan he is under for his Stage 4 prostate cancer.

His office announced on May 16 that doctors discovered a ‘small nodule’ on his prostate.

According to Cancer.net, Biden’s disease is ‘aggressive’ but also one of the most treatable types.

“We’re underway and all the folks are very optimistic”, he said.

“The expectation is we’re going to be able to beat this. It’s not in any (other) organ. My bones are strong, it hasn’t penetrated. I’m feeling good.”

Asked if he has regrets about running for a second term, he said: “There’s a lot going on. I think we’re in a really difficult moment, not only in American history, in world history.

“I think we’re at one of those inflection points in history where the decisions we make in the next little bit are going to determine what things look like for the next 20 years.”

Biden was forced to drop out of the race after a disastrous debate performance against now-president Donald Trump.

Trump mocked his Democrat counterpart for struggling to deliver fully coherent sentences in a toe-curling display which prompted many Democrats to shift their view on whether Biden was still the man for the task.

Biden’s aides are now under new scrutiny after the book, published on May 20, highlighted signs of his physical and mental decline in his final year as president.