Chuck Todd Tees off on Schumer: ‘You’re Part of the Problem’
Chuck Todd blasted Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on CNN, just seconds after the network’s Kasie Hunt interviewed the lawmaker.
Hunt asked Schumer for his reaction to a new book chronicling former President Joe Biden’s cognitive struggles as president and the efforts his staff went to hide them. Biden eventually dropped his reelection bid in July, weeks after face-planting in his lone 2024 debate with Trump. At one point, Biden declared, “We finally beat Medicare.”
Pointing to an Oval Office meeting Schumer had with Biden last year, Hunt asked the Democratic leader, “Did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term?”
Schumer dodged the question, replying, “We’re looking forward.”
“That’s it?” Hunt asked.
“That’s it,” Schumer assured her. Hunt thanked Schumer for coming on the show and then turned to her panel.
“Chuck Todd, go,” she said.
Go, Chuck Todd did. He responded by ripping Schumer and the aides who served as sources for the book:
He is among the people that are responsible for this. The leaders of the Democratic Party, the staff of the White House. And I have to say, I find everybody now talking to these authors, get outta here. Go home. You’re part of the problem. Now you tell us.
So, I just– and I find, you know, the reason why the Democratic Party has less credibility today, here’s an unpopular president, and the Democratic Party has a worse rating than the Republican Party with this catastrophic governance that we’ve seen over the last 120 days. And yet, why is the Democratic Party in worse shape? Because of this distrust, because of this, frankly, what the public feels as if the party leadership let them down and let them 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.
A new book, Original Sin, by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson, reveals that top White House aides tried to hide Biden from lower-level staff members.
“We attempted to shield him from his own staff so many people didn’t realize the extent of the decline beginning in 2023,” one former top aide was quoted as saying.
Watch above via CNN.
