Axios Reporter Torches Biden Team Over Instinct ‘To Deflect, To Gaslight, To Not Tell the Truth’

Axios reporter Alex Thompson torched President Joe Biden’s team for gaslighting the American public about Biden’s condition following the president’s dismal debate performance on Thursday night.

In a Friday morning appearance on CNN, Thompson said after covering the Biden administration for three and a half years, “I can tell you that the White House’s response every single time has come up for three and a half years has been to deflect, to gaslight, to not tell the truth, not just to reporters, not just to other Democrats, but even at times to themselves about the president’s limitations at his age.”

“There’s a reason why he has not done as many interviews or press conferences as any president in decades. There’s a reason he does not do events almost ever before 10 a.m., and is rarely on camera after 6 p.m., and the reason is because he has limitations,” continued Thompson. “He is 81-years-old, but the problem was they were not forthright with other Democrats., they weren’t, at times, forthright with themselves, and that is why Democrats are in full freakout mode, because what they saw is finally what they have been obscuring.”

In a thread on X, Thompson provided further evidence for his argument, noting that his own reporting had been characterized as “false” and that the administration had denied former Special Counsel Robert Hur’s conclusions about Biden’s memory in a report.

The WH’s response every single time age has come up is to deflect, to gaslight, to not tell the truth not just to reporters and other Dems, but to themselves about Biden’s limitations at his age.
They haven’t been forthright and the Dem freak out right now is a product of that pic.twitter.com/QI4WP0E4KC

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) June 28, 2024

“The way that the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts, and clearly politically motivated,” insisted Vice President Kamala Harris at the time.

In April, the White House complained that Thompson had not included its full comments (a common practice) in a story about Biden’s age.

Watch above via Alex Thompson on X.