Fox’s Peter Doocy Rips Fellow WH Correspondents For Avoiding Explosive WSJ Report On Biden’s Decline: ‘There Were Zero Questions!’
Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy was in shock on Saturday that not one of his fellow White House correspondents asked questions about an explosive report suggesting the administration actively covered for a “diminished” President Joe Biden.
Doocy filled in on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday and noted that none of his colleagues in the White House press briefing room chose to ask about a lengthy Wall Street Journal report that dropped this week which includes dozens of accounts from Democratic aides, lawmakers, and donors about long-standing concerns over Biden’s mental state and age.
“There were limits over who Biden spoke with, limits on what they said to him and limits around the sources of information he consumed,” the report reads.
The biggest bombshells from that report, including that meetings would be scrapped on Biden’s “off days” and one-on-one encounters were avoided, can be found here.
Doocy called it the biggest “Washington cover up” since Watergate.
Doocy said on Saturday:
We have another story that’s near and dear to my heart. It has to do with the White House press briefing room. Yesterday there were zero questions about this huge Wall Street Journal story that cites 50 people familiar with, apparently, the biggest cover-up in Washington since Watergate. The story, it was 18 pages long when I printed it, but the gist is that there were staff, unelected White House staff, who knew during the last campaign and transition that President Biden might be diminished, and they actively worked to hide that information from the American public. And we don’t know what it necessarily means for his decision making, but this is a huge story, and somehow there was no curiosity and our colleague, Jacqui Heinrich, was in the room. She was not called on. I have a source familiar that this was on her list.
Doocy noted that most questions related to Congress and a looming government shutdown, which was avoided at the last minute. He said his fellow Fox correspondent Jacqui Heinrich planned on asking about the report and he would have too had he been in the room.
“Typically when I am in the White House press briefing room getting an arm workout for the first hour, I’ve got a list,” Doocy said. “And if something that I’m curious about comes up 20 times, I’ll cross it out and go to the next thing. I don’t know if nobody else had this on their list of questions or if it’s just still so uncomfortable to ask even though this White House has, as of yesterday, only a month left.”
A montage of clips were then played of Biden throughout his presidency defending actions on the southern border, the withdrawal from Afghanistan (in which 13 service members were killed), as well as promising to accept the outcome in his son Hunter Biden’s cases. After his son was convicted on gun and tax charges, the president did end up pardoning him.
“I wish I had answers. I can’t get in their heads,” Doocy said about his fellow White House correspondents. “Sometimes I would like to, most of the time I don’t want to.”
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