May 3, 2025
Getting Ahead of History
By Tim O'Brien
On a Saturday night in late April, the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) doled out awards, one of which went to Alex Thompson of Axios. The judges said he deserved the award because, “Thompson’s aggressive reporting on Biden, especially leading up to and after the Trump-Biden debate, revealed that the president’s cognitive decline was impacting his ability to do his job, information the White House tried to conceal. After the debate, Thompson was the first to report that Biden was at his best from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. -- a stunning revelation.”
Thompson’s “aggressive reporting” only started in the fourth year of Biden’s term, and the bulk of it happened after that debate, not before it.
The reporters who actually broke the ice on coverage of Biden’s decline were the Wall Street Journal’s Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes. Their June 4, 2024 piece, “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping” detailed some of the challenges White House staff faced in propping up a diminishing U.S. president.
Then, of course, came the Titanic of presidential debates on the 24th of June, when Biden’s obvious mental decline was on full display, sinking the Biden presidency.
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