Chris Jones: I hear you, but the incentives for dems to be candid with the DC press corps have fallen dramatically over the last 16 years.

It’s legitimately amazing no donor would give their name to call Biden old or forgetful.

Amazing the Olivia Nuzzi story can’t get a single person to go on the record, and the strongest evidence against Biden’s mental health is he didn’t remember her name.

Maybe *she* forgot who did.

She said she worked on this story for months! And it's pretty clear that basically nobody was willing to talk to her, and the only people who did are giving vague descriptions that don't have much of a factual record around them.

I agree with your sentiments here. My only worry is that everything with Biden seems stage-managed to the nth degree and has been for years.

I've yet to see anyone other than McCarthy (:-/) who's met with him privately and said there were concerns.

I get it but when Brian Karem (who has worked as a WH reporter for decades) says that the Biden administration is the least candid about anything that's a problem. Brian is also the first one to say most of the DC press corps are incompetent at their jobs.

I hear you, but the incentives for dems to be candid with the DC press corps have fallen dramatically over the last 16 years.

I know but from what I remember Clinton's and Obama's WH team controlled their schedules a lot too and siloed themselves away from the press corps in many instances.

I wonder how much of that is just press corp frustration that dem admins are not as leaky.

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