{"id":2212454,"date":"2024-04-03T17:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-espn-host-says-interview-with-biden-was-scripted-white-house-likely-knew-questions\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:20:33","slug":"ex-espn-host-says-interview-with-biden-was-scripted-white-house-likely-knew-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-espn-host-says-interview-with-biden-was-scripted-white-house-likely-knew-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ESPN host alleges that the interview with Biden was pre-planned; suggests White House had prior knowledge of questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-espn-host-says-interview-with-biden-was-scripted-white-house-likely-knew-questions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2212454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former ESPN host Sage Steele \u200cdisclosed that her interview with\u200d President Joe Biden \u2064in 2021 was pre-planned. Details suggest the White House may have been aware\u2062 of the questions in advance. This scripted nature of the \u200binterview was \u200bhighlighted by Steele during her discussion with Fox News. Former ESPN host \u2063Sage \u2063Steele revealed that her 2021 interview with President Joe Biden was pre-planned. The information implies that the \u2063White House might have known the questions beforehand. Steele emphasized the scripted aspect of the interview in\u200c her conversation with Fox News.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Ex-ESPN Host Says Interview With Biden Was 'Scripted,' White House Likely Knew Questions\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/biden-admin-again-cancels-plans-to-refill-oil-reserve\" data-post-url id=\"print-1875363\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t(Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Former ESPN host Sage Steele this week said an interview she conducted with President Joe Biden in 2021 was &#8220;scripted,&#8221; with questions likely sent to the White House beforehand. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured,&#8221; Steele <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/former-espn-host-says-biden-interview-scripted-network-execs\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span>  Fox News this week. &#8220;And I was told, \u2018You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script and go.\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Steele said &#8220;every single question&#8221; in her March 2021 interview with Biden was &#8220;scripted&#8221; and &#8220;gone over dozens of times by many [ESPN] editors and executives,&#8221; adding that &#8220;it was very much \u2018This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups, no follow-ups. Next.\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The former ESPN host said she believes the White House likely received the questions from the network before the interview. She also put the 81-year-old president\u2019s mental capabilities under the spotlight, saying Biden seemed confused at times before the interview.<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think it\u2019s really heartbreaking that the people who love Joe Biden and say they truly care about him have allowed it to get to this point,&#8221; Steele said. &#8220;So I&#8217;m not even looking at this from a political angle or my beliefs in anything. This is the human side of it. And when someone is struggling, we allow them to continue to be in the spotlight and put them out there in the first place when they knew there were issues? Of course, they had to know.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Steele\u2019s revelation is not the first time Biden has been accused of knowing questions in advance. At a conference with U.S. mayors in January, a photo capturing a page from Biden\u2019s briefing book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/photo-of-bidens-briefing-book-at-qa-shows-he-knew-questions-ahead-of-time\/\"><span>showed<\/span><\/a><span>  the president knew ahead of time the question asked by Wausau, Wis., mayor Katie Rosenberg (D.). Last April, photos of Biden&#8217;s cheat sheet also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-cheat-sheet-shows-he-knew-reporters-question-in-advance\/\"><span>revealed<\/span><\/a><span>  he had advance knowledge of a question from a <\/span><i><span>Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/i><span>  reporter, who was the first reporter he called on. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former ESPN host Sage Steele revealed that her 2021 interview with President Joe Biden was &#8220;scripted,&#8221; implying questions were shared with the White House in advance. Speaking to Fox News, Steele expressed her surprise at the structured nature of the interview, emphasizing the controlled format of the discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":2212455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/biden-81.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/biden-81.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}