{"id":2428374,"date":"2025-04-28T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-lying-about-bidens-senility-journos-lie-about-the-cover-up\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:48:42","slug":"after-lying-about-bidens-senility-journos-lie-about-the-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-lying-about-bidens-senility-journos-lie-about-the-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"After Lying About Biden&#8217;s Senility, Journos Lie About The Cover-Up"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fafter-lying-about-bidens-senility-journos-lie-about-the-cover-up%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=2428374&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 class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Saturday, Axios reporter Alex Thompson stood before a room full of preening press elites at the White House Correspondents&rsquo; Association&rsquo;s annual dinner and suggested the media was duped about then-President Joe Biden&rsquo;s cognitive state. Thompson&rsquo;s remarks presented Biden&rsquo;s vacant stares, incoherent mumbling, and frequent confusion as some sort of masterclass in deception.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson&rsquo;s message was clear: Don&rsquo;t blame us &mdash; we were lied to. But this isn&rsquo;t just revisionist history, it&rsquo;s a second-order lie. The press wasn&rsquo;t fooled &mdash; it was complicit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Biden&rsquo;s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception,&rdquo; Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2R6wETQeE6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> to the room of self-congratulatory &ldquo;journalists.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We, myself included, missed a lot of this story,&rdquo; Thompson said. &ldquo;Some people trust us less because of it. &hellip; We should have done better.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For a fleeting moment, let&rsquo;s extend the benefit of the doubt to Thompson and assume the entire corporate press really was fooled by what anyone with eyes could see. If that&rsquo;s true, they should all resign in disgrace anyway because anyone that oblivious, that incurious, and that easily manipulated is even less competent than we thought.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, Thompson wasn&rsquo;t speaking in good faith. The media didn&rsquo;t &ldquo;miss&rdquo; the story, nor were they misled. They were well aware of the story and decided to actively suppress and cover it up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/26\/whca-cared-more-about-protecting-biden-than-defending-the-first-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WHCA Cared More About Protecting Biden Than Defending The First Amendment<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thompson himself spent much of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/18\/biden-god-save-the-queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 running interferenc<\/a>e for Biden. When Biden bafflingly tacked &ldquo;God Save the Queen, man&rdquo; onto the end of a speech about gun violence, Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1670430457811333120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dismissed<\/a> it as &ldquo;possible&rdquo; sarcasm.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Biden&rsquo;s weird phrases are sometimes weaponized by the GOP to insinuate the 80-year-old president is in mental decline,&rdquo; Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1670430791841480706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;But Biden has been using these unique phrases for years &mdash; even as some of his aides remain confused by their meaning.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/07\/10\/biden-temper-us-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also dismissed<\/a> Biden&rsquo;s profanity-laced tirades against his staff as merely a sign of respect.  <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Being yelled at by the president has become an internal initiation ceremony in this White House, aides say &mdash; if Biden doesn&rsquo;t yell at you, it could be a sign he doesn&rsquo;t respect you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Notably, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homecareassistancedesmoines.com\/whats-making-my-elderly-parent-angry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> by Home Care Assistance Des Moines, &ldquo;Cognitive decline can cause aging adults to have sudden outbursts of anger. &hellip; Your loved one&rsquo;s anger could also be a sign of dementia.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In April of 2023, Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/04\/28\/inside-biden-run-against-age-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>: &ldquo;Biden&rsquo;s age trap: Risks of running at 80.&rdquo; Thompson wrote that it is &ldquo;tough for anyone outside [Biden&rsquo;s] tight bubble to truly appraise the reality of Biden being the oldest president in U.S. history.&rdquo; He then added that the &ldquo;reality check&rdquo; of the situation is that &ldquo;Biden has remained an active traveler, with more than 20 trips this year &mdash; including a long, risky and complicated visit to war-torn Kyiv.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson later wrote in October of 2023 that it was actually Trump with the &ldquo;age problem.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump has his own age problem as he mocks 80-year-old Biden&rsquo;s fitness,&rdquo; Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/10\/31\/trump-biden-age-medical-condition-elections-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined<\/a> his piece.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump, 77, often mocks the 80-year-old Biden as feeble and confused &mdash; even as some of Trump&rsquo;s foes are highlighting the former president&rsquo;s own gaffes and relatively light campaign schedule,&rdquo; Thompson wrote, adding that the Biden White House &ldquo;does release annual updates from the White House physician about his physicals,&rdquo; despite being &ldquo;reluctant to discuss details about the president&rsquo;s health.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/07\/biden-staff-events-prepare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tried to dismiss<\/a> the fact that Biden needed a document with &ldquo;large print and photos that include his precise path to a podium&rdquo; before an event by saying that &ldquo;organizing presidential events &hellip; is intensive and detail focused for every commander-in-chief&rdquo; and that these are &ldquo;seemingly ordinary practices&rdquo; that are &ldquo;receiving fresh scrutiny.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Between the lines,&rdquo; Thompson wrote, &ldquo;Republicans have tried to highlight videos in which Biden sometimes appears unsure of where to walk on and off stage as a way to suggest he isn&rsquo;t mentally fit for office.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Each case was the same: Acknowledge the elephant in the room only long enough to dismiss it.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not journalism, it&rsquo;s propaganda. And Thompson wasn&rsquo;t alone in the cover-up. Days before the only 2024 debate between Biden and President Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/25\/media\/republican-debate-conspiracy-biden\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oliver Darcy<\/a> wrote for CNN: &ldquo;Right-wing media figures are desperately pushing conspiracy theories about Biden ahead of the debate.&rdquo; The &ldquo;conspiracy theories&rdquo; in question were that Biden is a &ldquo;senile, mentally incapacitated elderly man who cannot remember what he had for breakfast, let alone run the federal government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Noah Berlatsky of The Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/voices\/biden-fact-check-mental-decline-b2373172.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in July of 2023: &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s fact check Biden&rsquo;s so-called mental decline&rdquo; and argued that &ldquo;questions about the president&rsquo;s fitness for office aren&rsquo;t in good faith.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>NBC News&rsquo; Matt Dixon, Dasha Burns, and Alex Tabet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/republicans-float-conspiracy-theory-biden-wont-ballot-rcna121467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in October of 2023, &ldquo;Republicans float a quiet conspiracy theory that Biden won&rsquo;t be on the ballot,&rdquo; adding the theory was &ldquo;centered largely on the thought that Biden is too old and not sharp enough mentally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In June of 2023, The Guardian&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jun\/11\/joe-biden-mental-health-pro-trump-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nick Robins-Early<\/a>&nbsp;tried to downplay the concerns as a &ldquo;fixture of conservative media&rdquo; that caught on with the general public. &ldquo;As Biden &hellip; prepares for the 2024 presidential race, it&rsquo;s likely that his age and mental faculties will be a primary target for conservatives during the campaign.&rdquo; Robins-Early added: &ldquo;[M]uch of this narrative has relied on either specious allegations or outright deception.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post&rsquo;s Toluse Olorunnipa and Adriana Usero&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/06\/11\/biden-videos-republicans-cheap-fake-d-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote in June<\/a>&nbsp;that &ldquo;Republicans&rdquo; were using &ldquo;cheap fakes&rdquo; and &ldquo;misleading videos&rdquo; to &ldquo;attack&rdquo; Biden and try to portray him as a &ldquo;physically and mentally challenged commander in chief&rdquo; after Biden had to be led off stage by his wife, Jill Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The Alex Thompsons of the press corps want to memory-hole the smear campaign they waged against anyone who said the quiet part out loud. They want you to forget the editorial boards, the talking heads, and the so-called &ldquo;fact-checkers&rdquo; who swore up and down that Biden was just fine.<\/p>\n<p>As White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1916850860392427816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on Monday, the left-wing media even accused her of &ldquo;manufacturing deepfake videos, trying to persuade the public into not believing what they saw with their own eyes for many years.&rdquo; She further stated that the legacy media was involved in &ldquo;one of the greatest cover-ups and scandals that ever took place in American history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The media didn&rsquo;t miss Biden&rsquo;s decline, they helped&nbsp;<em>cover it up<\/em>. And now, in a moment of crisis, they want to position themselves as victims of deceit rather than perpetrators of it. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios reporter Alex Thompson claimed the media was misled about Biden&#8217;s cognitive state at the WHCA dinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2428375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alex-thompson-jpeg-scaled-e1745863787255.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alex-thompson-jpeg-scaled-e1745863787255.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428374","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428376,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428374\/revisions\/2428376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}