‘Welcome To The Party’: Peter Doocy Hits Back At Claims Reporters Didn’t Ask About Biden’s Decline
Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy weighed in on the conversation surrounding “Original Sin,” the new book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which digs into former President Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline — and the lengths to which the White House went to keep the situation under wraps.
Doocy responded specifically to those who were wondering why “nobody asked” about Biden’s condition or whether it was being covered up by his family and his White House.
“I have some unique insight on President Biden, having dedicated six years of my life to covering him,” Doocy wrote on X. “If you are wondering why nobody asked about his mental fitness, and why nobody asked if White House staffers were covering up his decline … then you weren’t paying attention. Here are 7 times I did just that.”
I have some unique insight on President Biden, having dedicated six years of my life to covering him. If you are wondering why nobody asked about his mental fitness, and why nobody asked if White House staffers were covering up his decline… then you weren’t paying attention.…
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) May 21, 2025
Doocy then shared a series of news clips, primarily from 2023 and 2024, in which he had directly challenged members of Biden’s administration.
In the first clip, Doocy is seen asking about Biden’s ability to handle any situation that might arise, even if it happened to be past his bedtime. “Say that the Pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke. It’s 11:00 p.m. Who do you call? The First Lady?” he asked.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre brushed off the question, saying only that Biden had a team of the best people around him to handle emergencies.
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) May 21, 2025
In the second clip, Doocy presses Jean-Pierre about a fundraiser at which Biden had told a story about white nationalist riots in Charlottesville inspiring his campaign — and then repeating it in a way that suggested he’d already forgotten telling the story the first time.
A third clip shows Doocy asking about a similar lapse, saying, “How is President Biden ever going to convince the three-quarters of voters who are worried about his physical and mental health that he’s okay even though in Las Vegas he told a story about recently talking to a French president who died in 1996?”
Jean-Pierre dodged the question entirely: “I’m not even gonna go down that rabbit hole.”
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) May 21, 2025
Citing Franklin Foer’s book “The Last Politician,” Doocy asks in the next clip about reports that Biden was treated “like a baby” by his staffers. Jean-Pierre waved that claim off as well, saying it was “ridiculous.”
Quoting former Special Counsel Robert Hur, Doocy pressed Biden directly on Hur’s assessment that he was a ‘well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,'” and then pressed him on how bad his memory actually was.
Biden claimed he was fit to serve, and then jabbed at Doocy, “My memory is so bad I let you speak.”
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) May 21, 2025
He also included a clip from 2019 in which he confronted Biden about whether or not there was a pledge in place for him to serve only a single term as president. There was not one.
The last clip shows Doocy once again in the White House briefing room, where he asked Jean-Pierre about medical testing that could provide new information about Biden’s condition.
“And are you guys just not — since February, testing President Biden for Parkinson’s or for dementia because, if he gets a bad result, it’s all over that day?” Doocy asked, later adding, “I know that especially as adults get into their 80s, health conditions can pop up more than just once a year when he’s getting his physical … Why doesn’t anybody in the President’s family urge him just to go to get checked out to say the coast is clear?”
to everyone that missed the first few years of questions about whether or not President Biden’s inner circle mislead the American people about his acuity: welcome to the party.
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) May 21, 2025
“To everyone that missed the first few years of questions about whether or not President Biden’s inner circle mislead the American people about his acuity: welcome to the party,” he concluded.
In addition to the Fox News White House correspondent, numerous conservative reporters and outlets covered Biden’s missteps and raised questions about his overall health and cognitive acuity. During a recent interview, Tapper was forced to concede that they had been right about the former president from the beginning.
