Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said Tuesday on “Hannity” that his “biggest concern” over former President Joe Biden’s mental decline is with the legacy media.
Before Biden declared for his party’s presidential nomination in 2020, Republicans had called out their concerns over his lack of clarity when speaking. CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson have released a new book detailing Biden’s mental decline during his time as president. Fox host Sean Hannity asked Kennedy about Biden recently being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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“My biggest concern with all of this has to do with the state of the media in America today, and let me explain what I mean by that. I watched bits and pieces of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner this year. I listened to speaker after speaker, all Washington reporters, defend freedom of the press. I kept thinking they wouldn’t have to defend it if they didn’t work so hard to undermine it every day.”
“The American people saw what I saw, what you saw for years, with respect to President Biden, and I’m sorry President Biden is sick, but we all saw the same thing for years. We saw a president who couldn’t finish a sentence without taking a nap,” Kennedy added. “We saw an elderly man who talked like he was from outer space. He walked like he was underwater. You could bake a Thanksgiving turkey in the time it took him to walk across the stage.”
On Sunday, Biden’s office announced that the former president had been diagnosed with a “more aggressive form” of prostate cancer, which has already metastasized to the bone.
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Speculations over the timeline of Biden’s cancer have circulated, with former Obama administration official Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel saying Biden likely had the cancer “at the start of his presidency in 2021,” as it couldn’t have developed in “the last 100, 200 days.”
Kennedy went on to discuss what he said was the failure of legacy media.
“Ninety percent of the American media not only never reported that, but when Democrats and many Republicans raised the issue they pushed back. This is just one more example of so many members of our media squandering the trust of the American people,” Kennedy said.
“There are other examples. The Steele dossier. The Hunter Biden laptop. I could go on and on and on, but that to me is what makes me want to stick my head in the oven,” Kennedy said. “Today, after Mr. Tapper’s book is coming out, the media is happy to report it, but none of them have taken responsibility for not reporting what was so obvious to the American people. Hypocrisy never takes a vacation around here, I can tell you.”
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During Biden’s time in the White House, Democrats dismissed concerns about the former president. With videos continuing to circulate of Biden’s public mishaps, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre labeled them as “cheap fakes.”
Prior to Biden dropping from the 2024 presidential race, media pundits like Tapper defended the former president’s cognitive state. In a 2020 interview with President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, Tapper claimed she had been “mocking” Biden’s stutter, but has since admitted that he was the one who was wrong.
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