A couple of veterans on opposite sides of the media spectrum seem to be in agreement on Joe Biden's cognitive decline during his so-called presidency.
Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said in an interview with NewsNation's Chris Cuomo that Biden's decline was obvious from the day he was installed into office on Jan. 20, 2021.
Meanwhile, in his new book, CNN's Jake Tapper notes that Biden’s Cabinet meetings were scripted and agency heads at the meetings were more like actors than government officials.
"If this is accurate, it basically means that Biden’s presidency was almost completely fake," The Gateway Pundit's Mike LaChance noted.
In a heated exchange with Cuomo on Tuesday, O'Reilly notes that Biden "didn’t make the policies! He didn’t make 'em! That’s what ... you're making your mistake! He was a zombie from day one!"
After Cuomo contends that Biden "had good days and bad days," O'Reilly fires backs: "He wasn't running the government. The book says that. It says that Ron Klain was running it and that's probably true.
The book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson, notes of the Biden Cabinet meetings: “Before these meetings, White House staff called the various departments and agencies to figure out what they were going to ask the president so that answers could be prepared. The conversations were largely scripted, even after the press had left the room.”
When a group would ask Biden to record a five-minute address for keynoting an event, the White House usually responded that the video would be one to two minutes, Tapper and Thompson report, adding that Biden still struggled with that.
“To compensate for that, aides filmed Biden with two cameras instead of one. If Biden messed up, the edit was less obvious with a jump cut,” the book notes. “Other politicians use jump-cuts, but Biden aides noted to themselves how much more often they had to use them for the president.”
BREAKING: President Biden’s team scripted Cabinet meetings and used multiple camera angles to edit out mistakes, according to a new book reported by The Hill.
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O'Reilly's full interview on Cuomo's show:
