How does Jonathan Capehart host one of the authors of "Original Sin," about the cover-up of Biden's decline, and fail to disclose that among the deadest of Biden dead-enders was . . . Jonathan Capehart?
On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, Capehart hosted "Original Sin" co-author Alex Thompson. Thompson described the Democrat party as "sleepwalking" about Biden's inability to serve, until the disastrous debate made that impossible to ignore.
But there was someone who was still somnambulating even after the debate—Jonathan Capehart.
In a PBS appearance more than two weeks after the debate, Capehart said that people calling on Biden to drop out of the race were "scaredy-cats," and that "I am not worried about him, his abilities, his performance or his mental acuity."
For the sake of disclosure, transparency, and journalistic integrity, it behooved Capehart to mention that today, But Capehart kept quiet.
Later, the show brought on Daniel Koh, a former deputy assistant to Biden, to respond to the Thompson segment. Koh made a potentially very telling disclosure.
During the Thompson segment, co-host Elise Jordan mentioned that "Original Sin" reported that four cabinet secretaries "were deeply concerned and they weren't sure who was making decisions."
Jordan asked Koh if he detected anything regarding Biden's decline as described in the book. After trotting out the well-worn line, "Of course, he moved a little slower than he did before," Koh continued:
"But I was never concerned about his ability to make the right decision, or his team around him making the right decision for the country."
Whoah! Did Koh just admit that decisions were being made by the "team around" Biden, rather than by the president himself?
We need to know!
Note: Here's another glaring example of Capehart's pro-Biden sycophancy. In 2022, we caught Capehart in what we said was perhaps "the biggest bit of journalistic malpractice, and naked pro-Democrat MSM partisanship, in recent memory."
In a segment on his show in which he aired clips from an interview with Biden in which he was making the case that he was fit to run again in 2024, Capehart excluded the moment [see screencap] when Biden seemingly nodded off! Capehart had to jar Biden back awake by calling out, "Mr. President?"
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
5/24/25
7:39 am EDTJONATHAN CAPEHART: Why should people who are watching the show right now, who are worried about the state of our democracy, look at this book as something that's important for them to read and understand?
ALEX THOMPSON: Because I think the whole thesis of this entire book was, why did Trump win?
And when we were asking that question, we were looking back, and our sort of the thesis of the book is the most consequential moment of the entire 2024 election was the moment when Joe Biden decided to run for reelection and the Democratic party sort of sleepwalking to the point of that, you know, crucial June debate.
And so, really, the book is, like, looking back at how the party got itself to this point now where they allowed, in part, you know, Donald Trump had something to do with it, but in some ways, the thesis of the book is the party also allowed him to come back.
. . .
One person basically, whenever, like, the White House press team wanted to put someone on the phone with a reporter saying, Joe Biden's great! Joe Biden's fine! At some point, this one person was like, I'm not going to do that, because I haven't seen him in months!
They were like, people that would normally see the president, you know, even on a somewhat regular basis, were no longer allowed to. And even the few times, we had one cabinet secretary that was allowed to go see him in that period, 2024. And they went in the meeting, and they were shocked. His mouth was agape. He seemed incoherent, and they were really troubled.
ELISE JORDAN: Well, I think you have four cabinet secretaries, just to follow up on that. And they say that they were deeply concerned, and they weren't sure who was making decisions. Why didn't they come forward while they were serving? Because it is a big deal. It is a huge deal for the President of the United States to not have all of their faculties.
. . .
[Addressing former Biden deputy assistant Daniel Koh] So you detected nothing, though, of the sort described in the book from your personal experience?
DANIEL KOH: He's 82 years old. Of course, he moved a little slower than he did before. But I was never concerned about his ability to make the right decision, or his team around him making the right decision for the country.
And I think that was reflected in the legislation that you were able to see him pass.
