During a panel discussion on a recent broadcast of NBC’s Meet the Press, MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend asserted that Joe Biden was “unequivocally” more mentally fit than President-elect Donald Trump. Despite other media networks now acknowledging their role in covering up Biden’s cognitive decline over the past four years, MSNBC seems determined to continue misleading the public.
Sanders-Townsend, who worked on Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and for Kamala Harris before moving to MSNBC, oddly suggested that struggling to form coherent sentences was a positive indicator of mental health. “I was very surprised when you asked the question about mental acuity he didn’t more forcefully push back. The question on the table is: Is the president all the way there? And the answer is: unequivocally yes!” Sanders-Townsend said.
“Now, people can say that you feel as though President Biden might be a little too old to do the job. But he is doing the job, and his mental acuity is there. So I think that there’s a conflation of two things here. It’s his mental capacity and serving another four years as old as he is,” she continued. “But those are two separate things in my opinion. And look, these people, they have known Joe Biden their entire political lives. I know Joe Biden is like, ‘Can y’all just please defend me a little more?’”
However, Jonathan Martin from Politico pointed out that Biden’s behavior has failed to inspire even those who might be willing to defend him. “Well, it’s not worth defending him, though, because at every turn the last year and a half, he has taken the path of the most indulgent turn for himself out than the good of the party by running again, by pardoning his son, and now, frankly, by some of these choices for the Medal of Freedom, going to Rome for one last trip,” Martin said.
“He’s not exiting in a way that I think reflects well on his party. And Democrats are deeply, deeply unhappy about it. And they should be frankly.” Marc Short, who served as former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, added, “It hurt Democrats in November to try to tell the American people something they could see with their own eyes wasn’t true.”
“But it’s not true that the president doesn’t have the mental acuity,” Sanders-Townsend objected. “Of course it is Symone! The American people saw that for themselves in the debate,” Short responded before Sanders-Townsend made a completely bonkers claim about President-elect Donald Trump. “What are you saying? [Biden] can at least put a sentence together. The president-elect is the one I’m concerned about.”
WATCH:
.@marctshort: What hurt Democrats in November to try to tell the American people something they could see with their own eyes wasn’t true.
Symone Sanders: But it’s not true that Biden doesn’t have the mental acuity.
Short: Of course it is, Symone! Imagine people saw that for… pic.twitter.com/ymsn6PJ6Ns
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) January 5, 2025
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