The “Fox & Friends Weekend” crew took sharp aim at President Joe Biden, his administration, and several of their media colleagues during a Saturday segment over long-simmering scandals.
White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who was filling in as a co-host, began one 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 literally 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.
The report featured accounts from numerous Democratic aides, lawmakers, and donors expressing long-standing concerns over President Biden’s mental acuity and age, according to Mediaite.
“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 that this was on her list,” Doocy added.
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