“Biden’s age is very clearly the most [important] non-Trump issue in this [election], a New York Times political reporter mused Thursday afternoon. “Polling says so. Voters say so.”
“It’s just the [White House/D.C.],” reporter Astead Herndon continued, “have had a sorta gentleman’s agreement for the last year to pretend like it’s not.”
“Maybe that ends now.”
Biden’s age is very clearly the most impt non-Trump issue in this elec. polling says so. Voters say so. It’s just the WH/DC have had a sorta gentleman’s agreement for the last year to pretend like it’s not. Maybe that ends now https://t.co/W7d6BPK9SW
— Astead (@AsteadWH) February 8, 2024
His tweet followed special prosecutor Robert Hur’s report, laying out in excruciating detail the debilitating mental decline of the president. He was retweeted by his colleague Michael Barbaro, host of the popular Times podcast, “The Daily.”
And the gloves were off Thursday evening, when White House executive staff marched their president before the cameras, hopped up and ready to dispel any of those investigative details about how he’d forgotten what years he was vice president, didn’t know when his son had died, and was too senile to stand trial for the same crimes his Department of Justice is prosecuting his rival for.
The president started off strong, rattling page numbers off the teleprompter like a man who knew his facts cold. He gave a pretty good dunk on Fox News’ Peter Doocy, but the questions kept coming — and for once it wasn’t just Doocy
