In a groundbreaking segment, Fox News commentator Marie Harf stunned viewers by defending former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness, claiming there was no credible evidence to prove his mental impairment despite his poor performance in a presidential debate. Even more absurdly, she claimed that Trump was, in fact, the President with a declining mental state, prompting a sharp rebuke from Kayleigh McEnany.
For context, Biden’s senility was a pivotal issue in the 2024 presidential election. Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media tried to conceal his apparent mental decline. Still, eventually, he was forced to drop out of the race when his condition became debilitating.
In any case, the segment began with one host saying, “So O’Connor was very much part of this backward discussion, if you believe the book. What’s interesting is that the quote you just read generally refers to physical health, and we all saw Biden’s physical health deteriorating before our eyes, right? And mental what?”
Beginning her unconvincing argument, Marie Harf replied, ” Well, but that’s a separate question, and I have not seen evidence presented by a doctor or someone else that would say that Joe Biden was not mentally able to do the job when you watch the debate I did, but that’s, that’s, that’s a different issue. Kaylee, that is not a mental issue. ”
Still not convinced by her dubious claim, she said, “Also, look at, I mean, so okay, if we want to start putting presidential doctors under subpoena, first of all, there’s patient physician confidentiality. That is a legal and ethical standard that protects patients and doctors.”
Desperate to paint Trump in a negative light, she said, “Do you want to put Donald Trump’s doctor under subpoena? Do you want to have Donald Trump’s doctor talking about why he makes up numbers about how much he weighs?”
Clearly unconvinced, Kayleigh McEnany replied, “Okay, I can’t believe what I’m hearing.” Bizarly defending Biden, the other woman said, “He took a cognitive test and passed it. Kelly O’Connor wouldn’t even want to start putting doctors of presidents publicly under subpoena. I think a lot of Republicans, starting with Donald J Trump, will have very bad things coming out about that. This is a dangerous precedent to set.”
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Firing back, McEnany asked, “So you believe Donald Trump is in bad health?” Responding, Harf said, “I believe I don’t know what Donald Trump’s health is like, but when I watch him on TV and he forgets names and forgets the names of people, he mixes things up. He’s repeatedly saying things that when Joe Biden said them, Republicans were like, he’s mentally impaired.”
Watch the clip here:
Concluding her remarks, she said, “Donald Trump says mentally impaired things every single day, and no worry. I think you’re the last Democrat on planet Earth dying on this hill of Biden perfectly mentally capable, and Trump is not in polling, by the way, it reflects like your own party didn’t want him to run. I don’t think he should have run. I agree. I don’t think he should have run, but I think he was mentally capable of doing the job when he was well, here’s some.”
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