The hosts over at MSNBC’s Morning Joe had a meltdown Wednesday morning after The Wall Street Journal published a piece on President Biden’s cognitive decline titled Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping.
“I don’t even know what to say. I really don’t even know what to say here,” Joe Scarborough said.
“Well let’s just say that Joe Biden is 81 years old, and Donald Trump by the way will be 78 next week, so he’s not much younger,” co-panelist Willie Geist said. “So does he move a little slower and speak a little softer than he did 15 years ago when he was vice president, as former Speaker Kevin McCarthy said in the piece, yes he does. Yeah, I think most 81-year-olds do or at least were different than they were 15 years ago. This does have the feeling of Trump acolytes laundering their attacks through a prestigious news organization in the Wall Street Journal.”
“I am sort of actually embarrassed for the Wall Street Journal about this piece,” co-panelist Mike Barnicle said. “And there’s one, at least to me and others who’ve spent any time at all — Joe, Mika, you [Jonathan Lemire] — anybody who has spent any time at all with Joe Biden knows one thing about Joe Biden above all else. He’s a talker. He’s a talker.”
“This piece is so tilted, so off the mark, is he 81 years old? Yes,” he continued. “Is he a little slower in terms of his reactions to some things? Probably. That I don’t know, we don’t know. What I do know, Richard, and you’ve talked to people I’m sure who have been with him in national security meetings, I’ve been with people who have been with him in the situation room where he literally goes around the globe in the situation … and points out the weaknesses and the strengths of the United States’ relationships with every country that he’s talking about with no notes, with no notes.”
Watch the clip below:
Morning Joe has a meltdown about WSJ piece on Biden’s mental decline pic.twitter.com/Y5bkZiSUXT
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 5, 2024
