Media Commentators Seek to Regain Trust: It Won’t Work

 The American Spectator  

. . ."The Lies: Trump colluded with Putin. The Hunter laptop was a Russian deception. Nick, the kid in Covington, Ky., was an anti-Black and anti-Indian Catholic racist. Trump has dementia and insiders agree the 25th Amendment must be invoked. Biden is sharp as a steak knife and at the top of his game." . . .

"In the wake of the debacle known as the Biden presidency, certain media commentators who supported Biden and looked the other way for a time as he declined cognitively in front of their own eyes and ears, now write critical columns about Biden in an apparent effort to regain relevance and trust as the second Trump presidency is about to begin. It won’t work. Their credibility is gone, hopefully forever.

"Two examples of this phenomenon are Bret Stephens and George Will, two conservative writers who succumbed to Trump Derangement Syndrome and rendered themselves irrelevant to the new conservative movement that propelled Trump into the White House for the second time. 

"Stephens, who used to write for the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page but now writes a column for the far-left New York Times, recently criticized Biden for “four deceptions” and “four illusions” that will “not serve his legacy well.” The illusions, according to Stephens, were:"

1. That the illegal migration on the southern border was “seasonal” and under control.
2. That it was “highly unlikely” that the Taliban would seize power when America withdrew from Afghanistan.
3. That inflation was “transitory.”
4. That Biden was the best candidate to beat Trump.

The four deceptions were:

1. That he would be a transitional president.
2. That he would be “bipartisan and moderate.”
3. That he was mentally and physically fit to serve a second term.
4. That he would not pardon his son Hunter.

"It is true that Stephens also wrote columns critical of Biden on some issues and policies, but let’s look more closely at the most important of the Biden deceptions — his mental unfitness for the presidency. That mental unfitness was evident to people with eyes willing to see and ears willing to hear as early as 2020-2021, but Stephens posed as blind and deaf when it came to Biden’s cognitive decline until May 2024, when he wrote that “perceptions about the president’s physical and mental fitness are hardly baseless,” while also writing that Biden can allay such perceptions if he performed reasonably well in the debate with Trump. We all saw how that went." . . .

The cover-up of the president’s cognitive decline must be thoroughly

 investigated.   . . . "We simply don’t know who was actually making executive decisions for the country since Jan. 20, 2021. We don’t know to what extent Biden actually performed his presidential duties after swearing under oath that he would “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States.” It is imperative that Congress use its full investigatory power to answer these questions. Every key presidential aide, every Cabinet officer, and every medical professional who examined and treated the president must be questioned under oath about this conspiracy of silence and the cover-up of the president’s cognitive decline."