Chris Cilizza admits he should have pressed harder for information about President Biden's well-being.
A former CNN pundit has offered a mea culpa for shrugging off concerns about President Biden's mental decline. Chris Cilizza, who served as CNN 's editor-at-large before leaving the network in 2022, spoke candidly about his lack of journalistic curiosity about Biden's condition to serve following a pair of damning reports this week from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal that shed light on the president's diminished state.
'As a reporter, I have a confession to make,' Cillizza began his 'apology' on his YouTube channel Thursday. 'I should have pushed harder earlier for more information about Joe Biden's mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline.' Cillizza acknowledged how Republicans would 'regularly ping me' during his time at CNN, asking him why he hadn't addressed Biden's decline and how he would 'brush them off' since he had not seen 'evidence' of the president's decline. And not only did he admit to taking the word of the White House, he conceded he felt guilty of 'age shaming' Biden. 'The White House and the people around Joe Biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything- asking the question about whether he was in some physical, mental or both decline, was offensive. 'How could you? It's age shaming.' And I think that impacted me at some level,' Cillizza said. 'Because while I did ask the question from time to time… I didn't really push on it, if I'm being honest. Now, once I left CNN and once it became a little bit more clear to me about Biden's age, I think I did write pretty regularly and talk pretty regularly about how I wasn't sure that this guy was up to it. And then obviously, after the June 27 debate, everybody, including me, was writing and talking about it
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