Biden’s fmr assistant gets earful from Sean Hannity

Fox News’ Sean Hannity halted former Biden special assistant Michael LaRosa on Monday after he attempted to defend the former president’s mental fitness, with Hannity calling LaRosa “full of crap.”

Democrats and corporate media have only recently begun to question the former president’s time in office, following the release of a new behind-the-scenes book, despite years of concerns from Republicans. While on “Hannity,” the Fox host brought on Biden’s former special assistant and pressed him on whether he had seen any decline during his time in the White House.

“Michael, you’re going to come on this program, and you’re going to look America in the eye, and you’re going to tell us that you did not see any cognitive decline in Joe Biden? Because we saw it. We chronicled it starting in 2019,” Hannity said. “You’re going to tell us that?”

“Well, I am because I’ve been very consistent about that, Sean, with all of your colleagues on all of the Fox News programming since I left the White House at the end of 2022. That my three years — ” LaRosa attempted to push back until Hannity cut him off.

In May, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson released “Original Sin,” detailing concerns about President Joe Biden’s cognitive state during his time in office. According to the two reporters, who interviewed a handful of sources, aides had grown so concerned about the former president that at one point they considered putting him in a wheelchair following the 2020 election. 

“Michael, let me interrupt you,” Hannity said. “I don’t believe you. I think you’re full of crap. Let me be honest. Let me be straight here. We play — we have tape after tape after tape. I could spend the next hour.”

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“We spent an hour on Friday playing him struggling, shaking air, not knowing where to go, talking to dead people. He could barely utter a sentence,” Hannity added. “He was a shell of his former self. Now, either you don’t have eyes to see or ears to hear, or you’re just, you know, politically blinded. If I’m going to be charitable or just a political hack. But you can’t say you didn’t see it. I don’t believe you.”

During Biden’s time in office, videos of the president circulated online, showing him stumbling at times and misspeaking. The White House’s former press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, labeled the videos as “cheap fakes,” saying that they were used to make the former president look bad. She blamed Republicans.

“OK, so Sean, you have the highest-rated programming on Fox News, on the highest-rated cable network. In 2019 and 2020, the American people saw the same thing, had the same access that you did,” LaRosa said. “He still won by seven million votes and has the most votes ever received by any president in American history. I’m not here to defend the cover-up.”

Hannity again interrupted LaRosa, pressing whether he saw Biden’s decline during the 2024 presidential debate against President Donald Trump, to which he replied, “Yes.” LaRosa told the Fox host that it was the first time for him and “many people” that Biden’s mental state became apparent.

“I don’t believe any of you. I just don’t believe it. I think you’re so politically biased. You can’t see through. You hate Trump so much you can’t see through the lens of politics,” Hannity said.

In June 2024, Biden appeared onstage alongside Trump, delivering a disastrous debate performance in which he struggled to finish arguments and, at one point, froze mid-sentence. Immediately following the event, Democrats and media pundits began asking whether he could serve another four years in office.

A list of Democrat lawmakers publicly called for Biden to step aside, with party donors withholding millions until he was taken off the ticket. By July 21, he announced he would withdraw from the 2024 race. Biden endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris as his choice for the party’s nominee.

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