WATCH: Rand Paul says shift in Biden docs coverage shows media want to ‘ease him out’
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The media’s “startling” change in the last week when it comes to coverage of President Joe Biden’s classified documents case shows they don’t want him to run again in 2024, according to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
“I think if you watch the news cycle, there’s a startling difference in the last week or two, particularly over the classified documents and perhaps over some of the corruption charges with Hunter Biden,” Paul said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle.
“They’ve been steadfast in ignoring this, you know, for years and really not reporting on it at all,” he added.
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The documents controversy has brought up competence and transparency concerns regarding Biden’s administration. This has led the White House to go on the offensive as the president tries to underscore his record before potentially launching a 2024 reelection campaign.
Paul explained that the fact that the media are reporting on it so heavily now, and not necessarily in a good light, indicates that even the Democrats and those in the legacy media are ready to look elsewhere for a candidate to represent them in the next presidential election.
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“If I had to guess … if we were in the boardroom of some of these left-wing media outlets, what we’d be hearing is, ‘it’s time to sort of ease him out,’ make sure that he knows that he can’t run again, in case he’s rumbling that he might run again,” Paul told host Laura Ingraham.
“I think the Democrats and those in charge of the Democrat wing of the press, I think they want to make sure that he’s pushed enough that he knows he can’t run again so they can start looking for a new candidate,” he said.
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Despite heavier scrutiny over the documents and the Department of Justice’s handling of the information, which sat dormant for more than two months, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has maintained that the scandal will not distract Biden from his agenda.
Asked about whether she was “upset” that she entered the briefing room with “incomplete and inaccurate information” after more documents were discovered in Biden’s private residence, Jean-Pierre deflected.
“What I’m concerned about is making sure that we do not politically interfere with the Department of Justice,” she said.