Fox News' Peter Doocy set the record straight about his coverage of former President Joe Biden's mental decline, Fox News reported. While other leftist news outlets ignored the warning signs, Doocy held Biden's feet to the fire, and he has the receipts to prove it.
During his presidency, it was taboo to notice any of the apparent signs of aging in Biden. While the mainstream media ignored it, Doocy was not afraid to bring it up, and he reposted those instances in a thread on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.
"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. Here are 7 times I did just that," Doocy promised.
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
One of the many instances that made Biden's mental deficits clear came after Special Counsel Robert Hur interviewed the then-president about mishandling classified documents. Hur decided not to prosecute Biden because he would be seen as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" by the public.
This was problematic because it occurred while Biden was supposed to be the leader of the free world. Doocy brought up the comment and asked Biden about it in one of the quintessential exchanges about his mental acuity.
"I'm well-meaning and I'm an elderly man and I know what the hell I'm doing. I'm the president; I put this country back on its feet," Biden claimed. "I don't need his recommendation," he added.
Biden's speech sounded slightly slurred, but he managed to get the statement out in a way that was forceful. Rather than letting it deter him, Doocy saw it as an opportunity to press Biden about his memory and whether it would impede his ability to serve.
In his usual way, Biden got snippy and took a shot at the Fox News correspondent. "My memory is so bad, I let you speak," Biden sniped.
When Doocy wasn't personally confronting Biden, he would interrogate then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. One of those confrontations specifically involved questions about Biden's mental and physical health.
The questioning came after the disastrous debate performance that ultimately forced Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. Doocy asked Jean-Pierre about the White House's unwillingness to give Biden a proper cognitive evaluation.
"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 Jeanne-Pierre. The press secretary tried to skirt the issue by claiming Biden had a "comprehensive" exam.
Doocy pressed on, noting that if his wife had seen him "on TV misspeaking or saying the wrong thing or seeing a change in my appearance, she would probably say, 'Let's go to a doctor just to make sure that you are okay,'" Doocy said. "You have a family. You have an important job. Why doesn't anybody in the President's family urge him just to go to get checked out to say the coast is clear?" Doocy said.
Nobody got an answer to these questions, including Doocy, until well after the time when the truth mattered. The leftist media is now trying to say there was a cover-up they were unaware of, but Doocy's dogged pursuit of the truth at the time gives lie to them all.
