‘NO! NO!’ Chris Cillizza Erupts at Dismissing News on Biden Mental Decline as GOP ‘Deflecting’: ‘This Guy Was the President!’

Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza erupted on his YouTube livestream Friday in response to a viewer who suggested concerns over Joe Biden’s cognitive decline while in office were simply a Republican distraction tactic.

Cillizza, now an independent commentator and NewsNation contributor, strongly pushed back.

One of his followers in the livestream chat wrote, “Why is anyone still talking about Biden? Oh yeah, Republicans deflecting.”

“No! No! It’s not just Republicans deflecting,” Cillizza said emphatically. “This guy was the president of the United States for four years and thought he could run and be president for four more years.”

Cillizza urged viewers to take the issue of a sitting president’s mental state seriously, regardless of their political affiliation.

“You can think Donald Trump is terrible and doing terrible things as president, but you can also think that this is a story worthy of covering,” he said. “There appears to me, at least, to have been an active cover-up from people close to Joe Biden. About his condition from the media, from the public, and even from people in the White House.”

Cillizza noted that Original Sin, a book about Biden’s decline and the cover-up to hide it by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson with Axios, is being released next week.

The book claims Biden’s “original sin” of running for a second term “led to a campaign of denial and gaslighting, leading directly to Donald Trump’s return to power and all that has happened as a consequence.”

“Go read Original Sin when it comes out on Tuesday, trust me,” Cillizza said. “This is not a Republican-created issue. Joe Biden should not have sought re-election. There were signs he was deteriorating as far back as late 2022.”

Cillizza, who has been vocal in recent months about the media’s handling of Biden’s public appearances and age-related speculation, ended his response to the question with a loud sigh and said, “Boy.”

Watch above via Chris Cillizza on YouTube.