President Joe Biden struggled during what his administration dubbed as his “big boy” press conference on Thursday afternoon as he sought to calm down his party following his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump.
Biden, who showed up more than an hour late to the event, used the official White House event to campaign against Trump and made numerous false claims about his own record and about Trump during his opening remarks before moving to call on reporters.
After facing accusations that his administration has carefully staged every public event he has had over the last two years in an effort to hide his cognitive decline, he opened the question and answer session by declaring that he had a list of pre-screened reporters that he was going to call on.
Biden: “With that, I’ll take your questions. I’ve been given a list of people to call on here.”…