Biden holds “crisis meeting” with Democratic governors
Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jackie Heinrich will report on “Special Report” about President Biden’s meeting with Democratic governors and a leaked video of former President Trump criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris.
A New York Magazine article published Thursday cited multiple examples showing how President Biden’s declining approval ratings are being treated as “a dark family secret to many of his elite supporters,” including his inability to remember the names of longtime friends.
President Biden’s widespread criticism during last week’s debate led to a flurry of commentators questioning his ability to serve as president. New York Magazine’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi added fuel to the fire with a scathing piece headlined: “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden” It’s based on months of interviews that have caused quite a stir on social media.
Among the many accounts he provided while interviewing Biden over the past few years, Nuzzi wrote that “people who encountered the president at social events sometimes found the interactions uncomfortable. Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked that the president didn’t remember their names.”
She wrote about one guest at a White House event last year who, upon realizing that Biden was unlikely to make it through the entire reception, suddenly “became open to an idea he had previously dismissed as right-wing propaganda: that maybe the president wasn’t acting president after all.”
Newsom is heading east to meet with Biden, but the president is trying to block the campaign from heading south.
WASHINGTON, DC, May 14, 2024: U.S. President Joe Biden looks up at the rain while speaking at an event to promote U.S. investment and jobs in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Reporters wrote about their encounters with the president in person as if he were an “otherworldly,” “creepy” character from a science fiction or horror novel.
“Up close, the president seemed less real. And not because he’s old. We all know what it means to be old. Bernie Sanders is old. Mitch McConnell is old. Most of the ruling class is old. The president seemed more otherworldly, otherworldly,” she wrote.
“2020 didn’t change that. His face had the uncanny valley characteristics that injectable enthusiasts call ‘unreliability.’ Even a few millimeters had altered the overall facial balance, dropping him into impossible territory,” Nuzzi explained. “His thin skin, long a metaphorical problem, was now a literal one, clinging tightly to his cheeks, the volume of which seemed to change from month to month. Under artificial lighting and in the sun, he had an unnatural glow. He looked, well, bloated. His eyes were half-closed or wide open. They looked darker than before, his pupils were dilated. He didn’t blink regularly.”
Nuzzi also writes about the irony that similar questions about who would run the Biden administration were being asked “not just at cocktail parties on the coasts but also at MAGA rallies in the Midwest.”
President Joe Biden has so far not heeded calls to abandon his reelection campaign. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“There is a ludicrous overlap between the beliefs of the nation’s most elite liberal Biden supporters and those of former President Trump’s most fervent, conspiracy-mongering supporters: The Resistance or QAnon,” she writes.[T]Hay shared his grand theory about America in 2024: There must be a secret group of high-ranking officials who will quickly put into motion a plan to control Biden and remove him from the Democratic presidential nomination. It doesn’t make sense any other way. They were in complete agreement.”
Fox News Digital The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Liberal newspapers, Biden media alliance urge president to drop out of race: ‘His arrogance is infuriating’
The White House has repeatedly defended Biden against questions about his mental state and said there have been no discussions of him resigning or leaving the campaign.
Asked this week whether the president suffers from dementia, Alzheimer’s or some other degenerative disease, Karine Jean-Pierre answered emphatically: “No.”
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“Are you ready? The answer is no, and I hope you’re asking another person that exact same question,” Jean-Pierre said, referring to former President Trump.
