The “Fox & Friends” crew took sharp aim at President Joe Biden, his administration, and several of their media colleagues over long-simmering scandals.
White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who was filling in as a co-host, began the segment by blasting colleagues for helping to cover up Biden’s deteriorating mental status for years.
Doocy’s comments came following a bombshell Wall Street Journal report that cited more than 50 sources who claimed that not only has Biden’s mental capacity been suspect since before his 2020 election victory, but that staffers and those close to him have covered up how bad it was for his entire term.
Doocy, filling in on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday, pointed out that none of his colleagues in the White House press briefing room raised questions about the detailed WSJ report after it was published this week.
According to Mediaite, the report featured accounts from numerous Democratic aides, lawmakers, and donors who expressed long-standing concerns over President Biden’s mental acuity and age.
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“There were limits over who Biden spoke with, limits on what they said to him, and limits around the sources of information he consumed,” the WSJ report said.
The report’s most striking revelations included claims that meetings were often canceled on Biden’s “off days” and that one-on-one interactions with him were deliberately minimized.
Doocy called the revelation that Biden’s been mentally incapable of being president the “biggest cover-up” in Washington, D.C., since Watergate.”
“We have another story that’s near and dear to my heart. It has to do with the White House press briefing room. Yesterday, there were zero questions about this huge Wall Street Journal story that cites 50 people familiar with, apparently, the biggest cover-up in Washington since Watergate,” Doocy said on Saturday.
“The story, it was 18 pages long when I printed it, but the gist is that there were staff, unelected White House staff, who knew during the last campaign and transition that President Biden might be diminished, and they actively worked to hide that information from the American public,” he continued.
“And we don’t know what it necessarily means for his decision-making, but this is a huge story, and somehow there was no curiosity, and our colleague, Jacqui Heinrich, was in the room. She was not called on. I have a source familiar with this that was on her list,” Doocy added.
Meanwhile, others have ripped on Biden for commuting the death sentences of nearly all of the 40 federal inmates currently on death row so that they can’t be executed after President-elect Trump takes office.
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“Joe Biden just commuted the sentence of a man who orchestrated the murder of a 12-year-old girl and her mother. He nearly beheaded the girl. He shot her in the head four times and then disposed of her body in a wooded area,” Joey Mannarino wrote on the X platform before using an expletive to describe Biden.
Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, President Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 men, reducing their punishments to life without the possibility of parole, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org.
The three inmates excluded from this decision are Robert Bowers, who carried out the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, killing 11 people; Dylann Roof, a White supremacist who murdered nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, along with his deceased brother, orchestrated the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured hundreds.
“The men being resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole are convicted of various murderous acts against one person or multiple. Among the victims of the 37 men are law enforcement officers, children, and other inmates,” Fox News reported.
