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‘Covered Up For Him’: Former Clinton Pollster Skewers Corporate Media For Failing To Cover Biden’s Health Decline

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Former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen criticized corporate media outlets over their failure to cover President Joe Biden’s declining health, saying it was “worthy of an investigation.”

A Wall Street Journal article published Dec. 19 revealed White House aides “insulated” Biden, even from cabinet members, as his health declined, months after similar articles published by the outlet earlier regarding his advancing age and mental decline in the year generated pushback from some media outlets. “America’s Newsroom” guest host Molly Line asked Schoen about CBS Reporter Jan Crawford admitting that media outlets “underreported” Biden’s decline.

“In retrospect, it is one of the great unreported stories of our time or any time. I think it is clear, given the ‘Wall Street Journal’s excellent comprehensive reporting that Joe Biden for a number of years, maybe even since 2021 or 2022, was not up to the job and the mainstream media, for whatever reason, covered up for him,” Schoen told Line after the clip of Crawford’s admission played. “I think it’s worthy of an investigation, not to blame anyone for any illegal activity, but to understand what happened, why it happened and how we can avoid it in the future.”

Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese covered the lame-duck president’s mental decline in multiple reports and aggressively questioned White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on multiple occasions, including over the border crisis and anti-Israel statements by some Democrats in Congress.

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“It is clear Joe Biden was not up to the job and it is clear that the American people both domestically and internationally suffered,” Schoen continued.

Questions about Biden’s age and health arose during his administration and the 2020 campaign. On multiple occasions, Biden said he spoke with people who had died, including claiming to have spoken with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, and former French President Francois Mitterrand, who passed away in 1996 on two occasions in February.

In September 2022, Biden asked for Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana at a conference on hunger that took place several weeks after Walorski and two staffers were killed in a car accident.

Biden also suffered multiple falls during his term in office, including one at the Air Force Academy in June 2023, a fall while on his bike in June 2022 and tripping on the steps of Air Force One on multiple occasions. Biden now takes a different set of stairs onto the VC-25, a modified Boeing 747 used as Air Force One, among other concessions to his age.