Chuck Schumer recently faced direct criticism for allegedly covering up President Biden’s declining mental sharpness. During an interaction with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Schumer was confronted about this issue but chose to deflect the question, urging Americans instead to “salute” Biden.
Salute?? Are you kidding me?? And where was this energy from the likes of Welker and other journalists for the last four years?
At one point, Welker aired a clip of Schumer criticizing Republicans for what he termed “right-wing propaganda” concerning reports on Biden’s mental health. In response to these allegations, Schumer quickly shifted the narrative by asserting that President Biden had “stepped down on his own.”
NEW: Chuck Schumer gets called out to his face for covering up Biden’s declining mental acuity, deflects and demands that Americans “salute” Biden.
Where was this energy from Kristen Welker *during* the Biden presidency?
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Welker said, “Obviously, there has been a lot of focus on President Biden’s role in this. You were, obviously, in close contact with President Biden well before the public tuned into that debate that ultimately led to him stepping down. I want to play you a little bit of something you said last year. Take a look.”
She then played a clip of Schumer stating in 2024, “I talked to President Biden regularly, sometimes several times in a week or usually several times in a week. His mental acuity is great. It’s fine. It’s as good as it’s been over the years, and this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.”
Welker pressed, “What do you say that you and top Democrats misled them about President Biden’s mental acuity?”
Schumer declared, “Look, we didn’t. 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 Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, putting 235 judges of record. 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. We should all salute him.”