Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) found himself in the hot seat by NBC’s Kristen Welker Sunday over his repeated past assurances about Joe Biden’s mental acuity.
In an interview on “Meet the Press,” Welker confronted Schumer by playing a clip from February of Schumer vouching for Biden’s mental state.
“I talk to President Biden regularly or sometimes several times in a week — usually several times in a week,” Schumer said. “His mental acuity is great. It’s fine. It’s as good as it’s been over the years. All this Right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.”
Welker didn’t mince words when she then asked Schumer, “What do you say to Americans who feel as though you and other top Democrats misled them about President Biden’s mental acuity?”
Chuck Schumer is confronted about the coverup around Biden's obvious cognitive decline — and denies he "misled" Americans by insisting Biden's "mental acuity is great." pic.twitter.com/DUbVvkHyyS
— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) January 5, 2025
Schumer became defensive in the face of Welker’s direct line of questioning and defended Biden’s track record.
“We didn’t!” Schumer snapped. “And let’s look let’s look at President Biden. He’s had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since the New Deal, since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, putting in, 235 judges a record. And he’s a patriot. He’s a great guy. And when he stepped down, he did it on his own because he thought it was better, not only for the Democratic Party, for America. We should all salute him.”
Welker doubled down and asked Schumer if Biden should have stayed in the presidential race.
“Do you feel, as we have this conversation today that President Biden could serve another four years had he stayed in the race and potentially won?” Welker asked.
But Schumer dodged the question.
“Well, I’m not going to speculate,” Schumer replied. “As I said, I think his record is a stellar one and he’ll go down in history as a really outstanding president.”
Biden dropped out of the race over the summer after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama threatened him with the 25th Amendment amid widespread calls among his party to exit the race after his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump in June.
The Democrat Party and media’s years-long coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline has become a running joke in the political world.
Just check out this extensive compilation of Democrat sycophants defending Biden’s mental acuity.
President Trump shared a brutally ruthless 3 minute highlight reel — set to the goofy Wii theme music — of Democrats repeatedly praising President Biden’s mental sharpness, soon after CBS veteran reporter Jan Crawford blasted those who helped hide his “obvious cognitive decline.” pic.twitter.com/9PWKSbhA0P
— AmericanGreatness (@NONbiasedly) December 31, 2024