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WATCH: Kayleigh McEnany Confronts Dem Strategist Over Defense Of Biden’s Mental Fitness
Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany confronted former Obama administration official Marie Harf during Friday’s installment of Fox News’ “Outnumbered” after the veteran Democrat strategist argued that former President Joe Biden was “mentally capable” of being president.
The panel was discussing the ongoing House investigations into the extensive cover-up of the former president’s cognitive, and physical decline while he was serving in the White House, which was covered in a number of newly released books. This includes “Original Sin,” which was co-authored by C NN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson.
Earlier this week, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) subpoenaed the former president’s personal physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, as part of the investigation. O’Connor previously provided Biden with a clean bill of health, though he reportedly raised serious concerns about the president’s condition behind the scenes, according to former White House insiders.
Despite the extensive evidence surrounding Biden’s decline, Harf argued that while Biden should not have sought re-election, he was still “mentally capable” enough to perform his presidential duties.
“What’s interesting is the quote you just read generally refers to physical health. We all saw Biden’s physical health deteriorating in front of us,” Harf said, at which point McEnany noted that Biden’s mental decline was obvious to the public long before any of the recent books were released.
“Well, that is a separate question. I haven’t seen evidence presented by a doctor or someone else that says Joe Biden was not mentally able to do the job,” Harf claimed, leading McEnany to ask whether last year’s disastrous debate was enough proof.
“I did, but that’s a different issue, Kayleigh. That’s not a mental issue,” Harf claimed. “If we were to start putting presidential doctors under subpoena – first of all, there is patient-phyician confidentiality that is a legal and ethical standard that patients and doctors have protecting them. Do you want to put Donald Trump’s doctor under subpoena?”
McEnany appeared taken aback by Harf’s defense of Biden’s mental fitness, something that played a major role in Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race last summer.
“So you believe Donald Trump is in bad health?” McEnany asked, to which Harf responded, “I don’t know what his health is like, but when I watch him on TV and he forgets names of people, mixes things up, repeatedly saying things that when Joe Biden said them, Republicans were like ‘he is mentally impaired.’ Donald Trump says mentally impaired things every day and no one reacts.”
“You are the last Democrat on planet Earth dying on this hill of Biden was perfectly mentally capable and Trump is not, and the polling reflects that your own party didn’t want him to run,” McEnany then concluded.
