Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha agreed with the White House in criticizing the New York Times‘s recent coverage.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized the outlet during a press conference on Monday. Concha noted that the criticism was valid considering how the outlet covered President Donald Trump versus former President Joe Biden.
“The New York Times, by the way, has no standing here whatsoever. This is the same paper who pushed the ‘cheap fakes’ narrative in June of 2024 regarding Joe Biden trying to play defense of a sitting president who was not fit for office mentally at that moment in his term,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First on Tuesday.
“So look, Karoline Leavitt was right to call out the so-called paper of record. They screwed up with Joe Biden and trying to equate Biden with Trump, which no person sane or sober, if you watch Donald Trump on a daily basis, would ever confuse the two in terms of mental ability and work ethic, that we do know,” he added.
Concha cited the outlet’s bias toward Democratic presidents by noting that it has not endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since 1956.
Leavitt referenced the outlet’s reporting that Trump has scaled back his public schedule and “might not be fit” to perform the duties of the presidency. She slammed the reporting as “unequivocally false.”
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“Are you kidding me? You all see him almost every single day,” Leavitt said. “He is the most accessible president in history. He is taking meetings around the clock. You all see that with your own eyes on a daily basis, and the president’s physician has now given you all three detailed reports on the state of the president’s health.”
During the same press conference, Leavitt credited the outlet for reporting on fraud happening in Minnesota but said the coverage “was about six months too late.”