At a press briefing, Karoline Leavitt responded to journalist Alex Thompson's comments about President Biden's "decline and its cover-up."
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00:00Really quick, Alex Thompson said at the White House Correspondence Center, and I'm going to read his quote,
00:05President Biden's decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House,
00:10regardless of the party, is capable of deception.
00:13We, myself included, miss a lot of this story, and some people trust us less because of it.
00:17Can you comment on those remarks and whether you agree with that assessment?
00:21I do agree with that assessment from Alex Thompson, who I understand won an award for writing a story
00:27months and perhaps years after the American people already knew that story to be true.
00:32Millions of Americans watched our mentally incompetent president struggle with his day-to-day duties of this office.
00:39We watched our country be ran into the ground as a result, and nobody in the media wanted to write about that, talk about it.
00:45There were many reporters, I will say, right-leaning reporters who did talk about that, who didn't get awards, didn't get coverage.
00:54In fact, they were lambasted for their coverage.
00:56And I remember being on President Trump's campaign, talking about Joe Biden's clear mental incompetence
01:02and being accused by people in this room of manufacturing deepfake videos,
01:07trying to persuade the public into not believing what they saw with their own eyes for many years.
01:14And I think it's about time the legacy media finally admits that was one of the greatest cover-ups
01:18and scandals that ever took place in American history.
01:21And certainly, it did contribute to the decline in the trust that Americans have for the legacy media.
01:28Which, by the way, is why we've made many changes to this briefing room in this White House.
01:31It's long overdue.
01:32Peter, go ahead.