In a shocking twist, an MSNBC host is asking how Biden-era Cabinet members can be trusted if they failed to disclose crucial information related to his cognitive decline.
The new book Original Sin by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson has shaken up the political class by shining a harsh light on the concerted effort to hide the decline of President Joe Biden. Many have been left scrambling to justify their role in the scandal, including Cabinet members who are just now admitting that they were kept away from the president for unbelievable periods of time.
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“For months, we didn’t have access to him. There was clearly a deliberate strategy by the White House to have him meet with as few people as necessary,” one quote from an anonymous cabinet member reads.
“At one rare meeting during that time,” the member said they were “shocked by how the president was acting. He seemed ‘disoriented’ and ‘out of it,’ his mouth agape,” the journalists wrote.
On Saturday’s episode of The Weekend, MSNBC correspondent and White House Correspondents Association president Eugene Daniels asked how Americans are supposed to trust these people after they failed to reveal this during Biden’s presidency.
“There were also people that I talked to in the past that weren’t really candid and finally felt they could be candid and you know to give them the benefit of doubt I think a lot of them were scared because they felt that if they spoke out it wasn’t gonna get Joe Biden out of the race and also was only gonna help Donald Trump,” he said.
“So, you know cabinet members, senior White House officials and to your point you know about the restricting access — remember, one that just comes to mind is, you know one person basically whenever the White House press team wanted to put someone on the phone with a reporter saying, Joe Biden’s great, Joe Biden is fine. At some point, this one person was like, I’m not gonna do that because I haven’t seen him in months,” Thompson recalled.
“They were like people that would normally see the president, even on a somewhat regular basis, were no longer allowed to. And even a few times we had one cabinet secretary that was allowed to go see him in that period, 2024, and they went in the meeting and they were shocked. His mouth was agape. He seemed incoherent, and they were really troubled.”
“When I think you have four cabinet secretaries, just to follow up on that, and they say that they were deeply concerned, and they weren’t sure who was making decisions. Why didn’t they come forward while they were serving? Because it is a big deal. It is a huge deal for the president of the United States to not have all of their faculties,” co-host Elise Jordan pointed out.
“But why should people trust them now, right? Because I don’t know who these cabinet secretaries were, but maybe they probably want to work in a different administration. They want to be on K Street. They will at some think tank. Why should anyone trust them when they spend all this time? Apparently, no one got this information and not telling anybody. Now they have a lot to say,” Daniels followed up.
“I mean, it’s a fair question, and I think, you know, I would just encourage people to read the book. It’s also why we didn’t just trust one cabinet secretary, right? I mean, we tried to get as many as possible. But I think it’s a fair question why they did not speak out, and, I can tell you, there was some self-reflection in our interviews, and I think they’re still sort of tortured about it,” Thompson responded. “At the end, their normal answer, believe it or not, you can take it for what it’s worth, but their answer usually was, if we spoke out, it wasn’t going to change him from running, it was only going to help Trump.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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