Philly Radio Host Who Interviewed Biden Says Questions Were Scripted And Provided By The White House

Posted • July 6, 2024: Team Biden obviously has tight control over what happens during interviews, and a local radio host who was granted a conditional interview with the president was heard on CNN explaining how it worked: Philly radio host says she was sent questions from the White House to ask Biden. CNN “if the White House is trying to prove the vim, vigor, & acuity of the president don’t know how they do that by sending questions first before the interview & the president knows what’s coming.” The "guess what happened next" part is that the host complied: The radio host who interviewed Biden two days ago - Andrea Lawful-Sanders - just told CNN that the White House sent her 8 questions in advance and she picked four of the 8 WH questions to ask Biden during the interview.

Holy smokes. The Biden camp has been pointing to the local radio interviews he did after the debate as evidence that he’s fine, but the radio hosts who conducted those interviews told CNN this morning the questions were scripted and provided by the White House. That helps explain a lot. So does this: Yet she complied with their request. See the problem here? And when it comes to the WH/national media now sounding the alarm about Biden's cognitive state, that's as "journalism" as can be coming from the same people who until just a couple weeks ago were trying to help the WH keep that under wraps while accusing people who noticed of pushing "cheap fakes." This has been going on since his 2020 campaign. (…)

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