On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it’s “about time” that the legacy media admitted to being part of “one of the greatest cover-ups” due to their reluctance to report on President Joe Biden’s mental acuity.

The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan asked Leavitt for a response to Axios reporter Alex Thompson, who criticized how journalists dealt with the last administration, as Thompson received the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner for his reporting on Biden’s declining cognitive state.

“Can you comment on” @AlexThomp @axios “remarks & whether you agree with that assessment”

White House press sec. Karoline Leavitt: “I do agree with that assessment from Alex Thompson” at WHCA dinner. “Millions of Americans watched our mentally incompetent president struggle …” pic.twitter.com/117g944k7w

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 28, 2025

“Alex Thompson said at the White House Correspondents Dinner. And I’m going to read his quote, ‘President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of the party, is capable of deception. We, myself included, missed a lot of this story, and some people trust us less because of it.’ Can you comment on those remarks and whether you agree with that assessment?” Olohan asked.

“I do agree with that assessment from Alex Thompson, who I understand won an award for writing a story months and perhaps years after the American people already knew that story to be true. Millions of Americans watched our mentally incompetent president struggle with his day-to-day duties of this office,” Leavitt replied. “We watched our country be ran into the ground as a result, and nobody in the media wanted to write about that [or] talk about it. There were many, many reporters, I will say, right-leaning reporters who did talk about that, who didn’t get awards, didn’t get coverage.”

She continued: “In fact, they were lambasted for their coverage and I remember being on President Trump’s campaign talking about Joe Biden’s clear mental incompetence and being accused by people in this room of manufacturing deepfake videos, trying to persuade the public into not believing what they saw with their own eyes for many years and I think it’s about time the legacy media finally admits that was one of the greatest cover ups and scandals that ever took place in American history and certainly it did contribute to the decline in the trust that Americans have for the legacy media…which, by the way, is why we’ve made many changes to this briefing room in this White House. It’s long overdue.”

Since President Donald Trump began his second term, the White House has made several changes in the press room, including making space for “new media” journalists and taking control of the seating chart.

Speaking on MSNBC over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) railed against President Donald Trump and his administration, saying they were “trying to intimidate judges.”

Schumer spoke as the two discussed the case of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, whom the Trump administration charged with two felonies for obstructing immigration agents. In mid-April, when immigration, DEA. and FBI agents came to apprehend Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal in Dugan’s courtroom to face domestic violence charges — and Dugan had been notified that there was an administrative warrant for the Flores-Ruiz’s arrest — “Judge Dugan then escorted Flores-Ruiz and his counsel out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse,” the criminal complaint stated.

“Trump wants to be king,” Schumer whined to MSNBC host Al Sharpton. “A king doesn’t have a Constitution. A king just does whatever he wants. And [Attorney General Pam] Biondi (sic) just goes along with him. They’re trying to intimidate judges. This is not the first time or the second. They’ve said they want to impeach judges. They said they’re going to go after judges who don’t agree with them. That is so against the Constitution. The Constitution believes and has been written with the wisdom of the founding fathers, that we should have separation of powers.”

“There should be an independent judiciary,” he continued. “When you go before a judge, you think that you hope and believe that that judge is impartial. What Trump, Biondi (sic), and the whole Justice Department are trying to do is push that judge, threaten that judge, so the judge is no longer impartial. … I don’t believe ICE or anything they say, because they’ve made up things so many times in the past. This is a constitutional crisis. You cannot have a — you cannot have a democracy without an independent judiciary. And they’re trying to clip the wings of that independence.”

Schumer’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. In March 2020, he threatened conservative members of the Supreme Court for considering abortion rights cases, shouting at an abortion rights rally:

Inside the walls of this court, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments, as you know, for the first major abortion rights cases since Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch came to the bench. … I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who was critically injured when shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter, called Schumer’s comments “unhinged,” adding, “This rhetoric has dangerous consequences.”

🚨 UNHINGED → Schumer threatened conservative justices Kavanaugh & Gorsuch on the steps of the Supreme Court:

"You have released the whirlwind & you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you."

Enough. This rhetoric has dangerous consequences. Where's the media outrage? pic.twitter.com/SiGNHxG0iX

— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) March 4, 2020

2025: Chuck Schumer says Trump wants to intimidate and threaten judges.

2020: Chuck Schumer tries to intimidate and threaten Justices of the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/FdisnZKk0I

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 27, 2025