Chuck Todd ripped Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after the senior Democrat refused to deal with whether or not he noticed indicators that Joe Biden was unfit for the presidency — telling the highest lawmaker he’s “as responsible as anybody else” for the Democrats’ 2024 White Home loss.
The previous host of NBC’s “Meet The Press,” who appeared on a CNN panel on Tuesday, reacted to Schumer’s refusal to reply questions from anchor Kasie Hunt about Biden’s situation earlier than the then-president bowed out of the race.
Throughout her CNN interview, Hunt pressed Schumer repeatedly on whether or not he had seen indicators of Biden’s cognitive decline throughout a February 2024 assembly within the Oval Workplace — simply months earlier than the then-president bowed out of the race following his disastrous debate efficiency in opposition to President Trump.
“You sat next to Biden in the Oval Office… Did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term?” Hunt requested.
Schumer refused to immediately reply, as an alternative pivoting to criticize the Republican-led reconciliation invoice.
“Kasie, we’re looking forward,” he stated, repeating the phrase a number of occasions as Hunt tried to comply with up.
“You’re facing all of this because you lost a presidential election. And is that not Joe Biden’s responsibility for deciding to run again?” Hunt pressed.
“We’re looking forward,” Schumer reiterated.
In response, Todd unloaded on Schumer, saying of the New York senator, “He is among the people that are responsible for this.”
Todd went on in charge “the leaders of the Democratic Party” and “the staff of the White House” for concealing Biden’s decline regardless of apparent indicators.
Todd added that Democrats are unpopular as a result of “party leadership let [the public] down and let this happen.”
“He’s as responsible as anybody else. He was a leader in the party. He could’ve said something sooner, and he didn’t,” Todd stated of Schumer.
Final month, Todd rejected claims that the media didn’t cowl President Biden’s cognitive decline, calling the accusation a “right-wing-manufactured” narrative.
In an interview with Chris Cillizza, Todd stated the media wasn’t in charge and as an alternative pointed the finger at Democratic officers who, he argued, actively hid the problem.
A brand new e-book by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson particulars the lengths to which aides to Biden sought to cowl up the extent of his age-related deterioration.
Biden’s state had declined to the purpose the place he couldn’t keep in mind the names of senior aides and even Hollywood actor George Clooney, Tapper and Thompson wrote in “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”
Tapper and Thompson interviewed round 200 folks, most of them senior Democratic officers, who felt free to talk following the election however have been much less forthcoming whereas Biden was in workplace.
Todd lashed out at those that spoke to the authors, saying: “I find everybody now talking to these authors — get outta here. Go home. You’re part of the problem. Now you tell us?”
The previous “Meet the Press” moderator stated that “the reason why the Democratic Party has less credibility today” and “has a worse rating than the Republican Party” is “because of this distrust.”
The Submit has sought remark from Schumer.
