Tensions between reporters and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre have only grown following President Biden’s weak debate performance, according to a recent report. “We were spoiled with Jen,” a White House reporter told Axios, referencing Biden’s former press secretary Jen Psaki. “She made that first year and a half a joy.” The briefing room...
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” we find two men in one character: one, a kindly and sociable man, the other a vice-ridden miscreant, and neither knows much of what the other gets up to. Democrats are staring into a similar situation regarding the president, for...
Former Alabama Senator Doug Jones told CNN host Kasie Hunt that she was putting forward a “nothingburger” about President Biden’s health amid reports that a neurologist specializing in Parkinson’s had previously visited the White House. “That’s a nothingburger now,” Jones, a Democrat, told Hunt when he was asked if the White House was being transparent...
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell had harsh words for what he considered “grotesque behavioral overreaction” by the White House press corps during Monday’s briefing. The “Last Word” host discussed the contentious press conference where White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly did not confirm Dr. Kevin Cannard, a neurologist from Walter Reed Military Medical Center who specializes...
The public immolation of President Joe Biden’s personal credibility shoves the media apparatus that propelled him to power into a tough jam. In the past two weeks, everything that was obvious to close observers for the past three years is now in the open: he’s infirm, he’s unfit, he’s unwell. It comes as a surprise...
First lady Jill Biden’s former press secretary, Michael LaRosa, said Tuesday that President Biden will likely remain adamant about staying in the race despite increasing pressure on him to step down. “This is his decision,” LaRosa said on “Jesse Watters Primetime” when asked about speculation that the president’s wife was the motivating force behind him...
The GOP-led House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed three senior White House aides, demanding that they sit for depositions concerning President Biden’s mental state. Fox News confirmed that the subpoena includes first ladyJill Biden’s top aide, Anthony Bernal, deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and senior adviser Ashley Williams. In a press release, House Oversight Committee...
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., third in line to the presidency, said President Biden must “seriously consider” how to secure his legacy for the future as calls grow among Democrats for Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race over concerns about his mental fitness. Murray, who as president pro tempore is third in line...
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd accused the Biden campaign of pressuring the publication to change the wording in an article transcribing a recent gaffe made by the president. In her Sunday column, headlined “Joe Biden, in the Goodest Bunker Ever,” Dowd detailed an exchange between herself and the Biden campaign after she quoted the...
Dr. Tom Pitts, a neurologist, said President Biden shows symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, a disorder that affects the nervous system. “He has these classic features of neurodegeneration,” Pitts said during a Monday interview on NBC News Now. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was questioned about Biden’s cognitive ability in a fiery press briefing Monday...
