Stepping in to co-host Fox & Friends Saturday, White House correspondent Peter Doocy took a moment to express amazement at the lack of curiosity from his fellow White House reporters after the bombshell Wall Street Journal report that outlined how the White House hid President Joe Biden's cognitive decline from the public going back to the 2020 campaign.
Why is their no curiosity? Either everyone's embarrassed that they've been so sheepish (a room full of sheeple), or they're still easily pressured out of touching this issue by the White House staff.
PETER DOOCY: We have another story that’s near and dear to my heart. It has to do with the White House press briefing room. Yesterday there were zero questions about this huge Wall Street Journal story that cites 50 people familiar with, apparently, the biggest cover-up in Washington since Watergate.
The story, it was 18 pages long when I printed it, but the gist is that there were staff, unelected White House staff, who knew during the last campaign and transition that President Biden might be diminished, and they actively worked to hide that information from the American public. And we don’t know what it necessarily means for his decision making, but this is a huge story, and somehow there was no curiosity and our colleague, Jacqui Heinrich, was in the room. She was not called on. I have a source familiar that this was on her list.
Jacqui tweeted that she planned to ask about this, but wasn't called on (how conveeeeenient for KJP).
some of us (ahem 🙋🏼♀️) never got the chance https://t.co/dBuNG5YOI0
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) December 20, 2024
“Typically when I am in the White House press briefing room getting an arm workout for the first hour, I’ve got a list,” Doocy said. “And if something that I’m curious about comes up 20 times, I’ll cross it out and go to the next thing. I don’t know if nobody else had this on their list of questions or if it’s just still so uncomfortable to ask even though this White House has, as of yesterday, only a month left.”
After playing some Biden clips, Doocy returned to his point: "If Karoline Leavitt in a month was at the podium and there was this Wall Street Journal story with 50 people familiar with Trump's operation, that there was this big coverup to try to conceal diminished faculties, that would be every single question!"
Doocy suggested this has been a source of curiosity, but there's no follow-through. “I wish I had answers. I can’t get in their heads. Sometimes I would like to, most of the time I don’t want to.”
