Now?! Ex-CNN journalist speaks out on Biden cover-up –they shamed us

A former CNN journalist now says there is “ample evidence” of a cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental acuity while he was in office.

CNN’s former editor-at-large Chris Cillizza belatedly addressed the obvious about Biden’s declining health, admitting that the aging Democrat’s aides shamed reporters who may have been trying to get answers about his mental capacity.

“I think there is now ample evidence that there was a cover-up on Joe Biden’s actual physical and mental condition by his aides in the White House. There’s been a ton of reporting on it… too much, I think, to dismiss it,” he told Fox News Digital in an email.

But Cillizza is not convinced the media was complicit in covering up Biden’s ability to do his job.

“Instead, I think the Biden team made it really hard to ask questions about his health — they shamed you, said you didn’t like him, etc.,” he said, adding that many reporters like himself, “let that be that.”

He contended that some reporters accepted the narrative from Biden’s team because they were either more “inclined to believe a Democratic president,” or leaned more to believing “someone who hadn’t said 30,000 false or misleading things while in office.”

Cillizza recently addressed the issue in a video titled, “Why it *still* matters that the media missed the big Biden story.”

“The fact that I do not believe there was any coordinated cover-up by the media of Joe Biden’s condition, that does not get us media off the hook,” he said.

“The media should have asked more questions about Joe Biden. I should have asked more questions about Joe Biden and his health,” Cillizza added. “We should have dug harder.”

Cillizza made a “confession” last year in which he admitted he brushed off concerns about Biden’s decline.

“As a reporter, I have a confession to make… I should have pushed harder earlier for more information about Joe Biden’s mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline,” he said in a video.

“The White House and the people around Joe Biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything- asking the question about whether he was in some physical, mental, or both decline, was offensive. ‘How could you? It’s age shaming.’ And I think that impacted me at some level,” Cillizza said.

“While I did ask the question from time to time… I didn’t really push on it, if I’m being honest. Now, once I left CNN and once it became a little bit more clear to me about Biden’s age, I think I did write pretty regularly and talk pretty regularly about how I wasn’t sure that this guy was up to it,” Cillizza added. “And then obviously, after the June 27 debate, everybody, including me, was writing and talking about it.”

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.

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