Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha mocked ABC News’s The View for missing the “biggest story” of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline and subsequent cover-up.
The hosts of the network’s daytime talk show attempted to dismiss revelations from the book co-written by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Instead, they often pivoted to fault-finding the first Trump administration.
“This is your friendly reminder once again that The View is not under ABC’s comedy or Disney’s comedy department, or in this case, unintentional comedy, this is actually presented as a product of ABC’s news division,” Concha said on Fox and Friends First. “No, this is the biggest story, failed cover-up of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, that has been going back, according to Jake Tapper, for 10 years to 2015 and is only a big story because a book came out about it after the fact, after the election.”
Co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin pushed back when she claimed that “the Left” was discounting the reports of these journalists just because “they critically cover Democrats.”
“Donald Trump is not going through cognitive decline,” Concha said. “He is the most active, most accessible, most lucid president we have seen in our lifetime. He has taken thousands of questions from the very journalists that that one View cohost was talking about.”
The View hosts have long supported the Bidens. During the May 8 episode, the former first couple denounced the multiple post-presidency books being released.
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According to former first lady Jill Biden, the authors are “people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us, and they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day.” The former president claimed that “there’s nothing to sustain” the authors’ allegations.
“The fact that he had the nuclear codes and the fact he was not ready for that 2 a.m. phone call should be a concern for everybody that says to be a journalist, except for apparently the ladies on The View, Concha said.