Friday’s CNN This Morning attempted to make sense of President Biden’s porous performance in the network’s presidential debate on Thursday night with varying doses of cope, excuses, and even conceding reality. Even one White House reporter on-set blasted the administration’s years of denying reality about Biden losing a grip on reality.
Axios’s Alex Thompson — who’s been one of the few in the regime’s press corps to repeatedly write about Biden’s age — lambasted Team Biden just after the top of both hours of the show:
Well, listen, I've covered the Biden White House now for three-and-a-half years. And as someone that's reported on his age quite a few times, I can tell you that the White House’s response every single time has come up for three-and-a-half years has been to deflect, to gaslight, to not tell the truth, not just to reporters, not just other Democrats, but even at times to themselves about the President's limitations at his age. There's a reason why he has not done as many interviews and press conferences as any president in decades. There's a reason he does not do events almost ever before 10:00 a.m. and is rarely on camera after six p.m. And the reason is because he has limitations. He is 81-years-old, but the problem was they were not forthright with other Democrats. They weren’t forthright with themselves.
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There is one good piece for Democrats is that there are still tens of millions of people in this country that would take Joe Biden at 110-years-old, then vote for Donald Trump. The problem is there's probably not enough of those millions of people. And part of the problem is someone that's covered, Joe Biden's age for the last 3.5 years is they deflect, they gaslight at times they have not told the truth about the limitations of his age, that he gets up late in the morning, that he does not appear on camera, usually late at night, that does not do interviews — more than — he's done less interviews than any president in decades. There are limitations on this present because he is old and he is not been forthright and addressing those in a way that Jamal was saying. And so that's why you have this collective freak out because now it's four months to election day. And you realize that maybe he does have some bad moments.
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