And the few times he met with people outside of his protective circle, he showed signs of serious memory loss.
He told Tucker Carlson he recognized in Biden the signs of Alzheimer's that he saw in his own mother.
"They kept him shielded, not only from the public and from non-friendly press, but also from members of Congress. Now, remember, look, I've been in the Senate for 13 and a half years. I've served while we've had three different presidents. You know Obama, [with] Biden as his vice president, and then, you know, Trump and now Biden as president. We have seen a lot more of other presidents," Lee continued.
The GOP senator detailed how both former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump were "very active" in interacting with lawmakers on the Hill. However, he highlighted that over Biden's term it "hardly happened," noting an interaction between the president and Lee's wife, Sharon Lee.
"With Biden, it hardly happens at all, like they shielded him from us. In some ways, my wife, I think this was in maybe the first half or the first quarter of 2022, went over to an event at the White House for Senate spouses hosted by the First Lady, who was herself a longtime member of the Senate spouses organization. While they were there, President Biden just kind of came wandering in. I think they were in one of the ballrooms," Lee said.
"She said, there was no secret service with him, no staff with him, he just kind of walked in. She said, instinctively, I just said, 'Oh, hello, Mr. President, it's good to see you,'" Lee continued. "He asked her, 'Do you work in the east wing?' And she said, 'No, no, Mr. President, I'm Sharon. Sharon Lee, Senator Mike Lee's wife.'"
Lee stated how Biden had sworn him into the Senate twice before leaving his vice presidency within the Obama administration, leaving his wife to believe at the time that the interactions "would take care of it." Despite the history between the two, Lee said his wife relayed that Biden had "looked confused" and asked again if she worked in the West Wing.
"Moments later, someone came up to one of the other Senate spouses, I think it was a Democrat, and had a phone in her hand and said, 'Hey, my brother in law is a big fan. It's his birthday, will you say hi to him.' This is Biden's signature move," Lee said.
"But this woman handed him the phone. It rang. The woman's brother in law answered, 'Hello,' and then he got a confused look on his face, held out the phone, hung it up, and handed the phone back," Lee continued. "Now that for Joe Biden, is very significant, very significant."
"And this is [the] sitting president of the United States," Carlson noted, to which Lee agreed as he said he believed the interaction happened a "little more than two years ago."
Lee then called out how he began to "see little snippets," leading Carlson to then jump in to say, "That's a big snippet!"
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