Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy certainly has a way of getting under the skin of the White House press secretary, but she usually maintains a façade of civility in answering (or dodging) his questions.
However, Ducey's question yesterday about President Joe Biden's apparent seances with long-dead world leaders made Karine Jean-Pierre finally give up trying to give him a real answer.
Now, Jean-Pierre and her colleagues in the Biden administration never react well when confronted with Biden's apparent cognitive impairment, but no one can pass off his mistake in Nevada over the weekend as merely a sign that sleepy Joe should take a nap in a rocker. Chair in elderly home.
Not only did Biden, when trying to boast of his achievements as president, describe a meeting with world leaders in 2021 as including François Mitterrand, who left the position of president of France in 1995 and died in 1996, but he also initially described Mitterrand as the German, not the French president.
Naturally, this raises some questions among reporters, as well as among ordinary voters.
So, when Jean-Pierre spoke to reporters on Tuesday, she should have had some sort of prepared response to Biden's blunder.
Perhaps we expect too much from our elderly president's friends.
Ducey questions KJP after Biden says he recently met with dead former president of France:
“How is Biden going to convince three-quarters of voters that his mental acuity is fine when he tells a story about recently speaking with a French president who died in 1996?” pic.twitter.com/fVsE3elDpv
– Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 6, 2024
As seen in this video shared by Citizen Free Press, Ducey asked Jean-Pierre, “How will President Biden convince three-quarters of his voters who are concerned about his physical and mental health that he is fine, even though he is in good shape?” In Las Vegas, he told a story about recently speaking with a French president who died in 1996?
Instead of making even the faintest attempt to defend the indefensible, an exhausted Jean-Pierre replied: “I will not go down that rabbit hole with you, sir,” before trying to summon someone else.
Ducey doubled over, asking, “What's the rabbit hole?”
All Jean-Pierre could say: “I saw the president in Vegas, in California. I saw the president in South Carolina. I saw him in Michigan. “I'll just leave it there.”
We already did, and Biden literally embarrassed himself in every one of those states. What's your point, Karen?
We can sympathize with her obvious fatigue asking questions about Biden's aging if she doesn't answer almost every question from people she doesn't like that way.
The uncomfortable truth, at least for those trying to re-elect the worst president in modern history, is that simply seeing the old man popping up around the country is not the “problem” Jean-Pierre wants it to be.
Doocy was right to question her on that front.
Biden's election tour has been an unmitigated disaster.
Any time Biden has to open his mouth in public, without the carefully controlled environment of his basement coronavirus bunker, he only confirms the public's suspicions that he is an old man with dementia who has no right to be the leader of the most powerful nation. In the world. Free world.
Biden claimed to have spoken with President Mitterrand in 2021 when the man died in 1996, and only corrected himself when he realized he had misread Mitterrand's country of origin.
Jean-Pierre seems to think her response to Doocy doing anything to reassure voters about Biden's mental acuity is delusional.
The more the Democratic Party tries to cover up Biden, the more we will have to be like Ducey, who steps back from the narrative and demands tough questions to be answered.
Because even though Doocy didn't get a real answer to the questions, Jean-Pierre's non-answer was incredibly revealing — Democrats know Biden is incompetent, and even they can no longer defend him outright.
This article originally appeared in The Western Journal.
