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Journalist Mark Halperin said the Democrat Party and media’s coverup of Joe Biden’s mental decline over the years was “one of the biggest scandals” in US history.
Halperin told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Friday that the Democrats and legacy media knew of Biden’s declining mental acuity for years but dared not talk about for fear of helping Donald Trump get elected.
“But I will say that the donors and the Democratic officials who are now so outraged about the conduct, as you said, the press knew all this, so did they,” Halperin said. “They stood silent when Joe Biden’s operatives crushed Bobby Kennedy and Dean Phillips and rigged the rules. They stood silent as he stayed in the race and decided he was going to run for another term. They stood silent when Kamala Harris was given the nomination without a shot being fired.”
“So I get why they’re mad at Joe Biden, but I think a lot of them need to turn the clock back and imagine what they might have done differently and Joe Biden, then might be in a place to raise the money,” he continued. “So I do think he’ll raise some money, but as I said, he’s never been a good fundraiser. It’s the kind of work he doesn’t like to do, and these donors blame him more than themselves.”
He also noted the faux outrage over the media’s sudden criticism of Biden and the Harris campaign in the wake of Kamala’s humiliating election loss, but said they had no one to blame but themselves.
“You know, I saw Joe Biden’s mental acuity decline in 2017, and I talked about it on a regular basis. I can’t explain it. It’s some combination of Trump derangement syndrome and not wanting to be ostracized for doing anything that might help Donald Trump win,” Halperin said.
“And of course, the irony is, the reason Joe Biden is left in the position he’s in, the reason Donald Trump was re-elected, there are plenty of reasons, but a big reason is the silence in the media.”
“I’ve called this before. I think it’s one of the biggest scandals of any sort in American history, and certainly one of the biggest media scandals, because people say, oh, they didn’t see behind-the-scenes. All you needed was a C-SPAN subscription to know that there was a level of mental decline and they stood silent,” he added, noting the Democrat donors were just as guilty of ignoring Biden’s mental decline.
