Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy blasted his colleagues late last week for helping to cover up President Joe Biden’s deteriorated mental status for years.
Doocy’s comments came following a bombshell Wall Street Journal report that cited more than 50 sources who claimed that not only has Biden’s mental capacity been suspect since before his 2020 election victory, but that staffers and those close to him have literally covered up how bad it was for his entire term.
Peter Doocy, filling in on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday, pointed out that none of his colleagues in the White House press briefing room raised questions about a detailed Wall Street Journal report published this week.
The report featured accounts from numerous Democratic aides, lawmakers, and donors expressing long-standing concerns over President Biden’s mental acuity and age, according to Mediaite.
“There were limits over who Biden spoke with, limits on what they said to him and limits around the sources of information he consumed,” the WSJ report said.
The report’s most striking revelations included claims that meetings were often canceled on Biden’s “off days” and that one-on-one interactions with him were deliberately minimized.
Doocy called the revelation that Biden’s been mentally incapable of being president the “biggest cover-up” in Washington, D.C., since Watergate.”
“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,” Doocy said on Saturday.
“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,” he continued.
“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,” Doocy added.
Doocy observed that most questions during the briefing focused on Congress and the impending government shutdown, which was ultimately averted at the last minute. He mentioned that his colleague, Fox correspondent Heinrich, had planned to ask about the Wall Street Journal report, and he would have done the same if he had been present in the room.
“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.”
A montage of clips was then shown featuring President Biden throughout his presidency, defending his administration’s actions on the southern border, the withdrawal from Afghanistan (which resulted in the deaths of 13 service members), and his promise to accept the outcomes in his son Hunter Biden’s legal cases. Despite this, after Hunter was convicted on gun and tax charges, the president ultimately pardoned him.
“I wish I had answers. I can’t get in their heads,” Doocy said about his fellow White House correspondents. “Sometimes I would like to, most of the time I don’t want to.”
