Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was forced to watch himself claiming President Joe Biden was mentally sharp and ready to serve another term. This statement did not age well after Biden’s horrific performance in the first 2024 presidential debate.
Fast forward to 2025, and Schumer now refuses to say whether he truly believed Biden was fit for re-election, as seen in a softball interview on NBC News’s Meet the Press with host Kristen Welker.
“You were, obviously, in close contact with President Biden well before the public tuned into that debate that ultimately led to him stepping down,” Welker began, according to the Media Research Center. “I want to play you a little bit of something you said last year. Take a look.”
Welker then aired a clip of Schumer insisting Biden’s mental acuity was “great” and “fine.” In the video, Schumer declared, “It’s as good as it’s been over the years … All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.”
After the video concluded, Welker pressed Schumer over his role in promoting what Republicans long knew was a false narrative to shield Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, from scrutiny. […]
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