Fox News Post Asks If Competitor CNN Should ‘Face Consequences’ For Biden Coverage
Fox News raised eyebrows on Tuesday with a post on X asking if “liberal outlets” should “face consequences” over how they covered or did not cover ex-President Joe Biden’s mental fitness while he was in office.
Fox’s social media team clipped a segment from Outnumbered on Tuesday discussing Jake Tapper calling the cover-up around Biden’s decline a potentially bigger scandal than Watergate and captioned the clip by writing, “Should liberal outlets like @CNN face consequences for ignoring the signs — even after years of receiving tips about Biden’s decline?”
The post added, “@jaketapper now admits the cover-up ‘may be worse than Watergate,’ but CNN didn’t acknowledge it until the Trump-Biden debate. Fox News had been reporting on Biden’s cognitive struggles and the inner circle’s efforts to hide it as far back as 2020.”
The Fox post comes amid heightened attacks on the media from President Donald Trump, who is suing CBS News and working to defund NPR and PBS – all of which he views as critics.
In the segment that the clip is from, Outnumbered co-host and former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says, “A series of newly published books are detailing the links to which former President Biden’s inner circle allegedly went to shield you all, the American people, from his decline. And now Jake Tapper, who wrote one of those books, says he believes the apparent cover-up of Biden’s mental decline may go down as bigger than, wait for it, Watergate.”
“It is a scandal. It is without question, and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways. Because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn’t drinking,” then says Tapper, in a clip from his appearance on Piers Morgan’s show. “And so the idea that, yeah, we don’t mean to exonerate. The only reason that we have the Watergate thing is there because we quote Archibald Cox, who had an interest in keeping that president propped up,” adds the CNN anchor.
McEnany and her co-hosts then took turns agreeing with Tapper, but also pulled no punches in accusing him of being part of the cover-up.
Watch the clip above via Fox News.
