After repeated pushbacks, President Biden’s much-anticipated press conference did little Thursday night to change that his presidency and reelection chances remain in crisis, thanks to a pre-selected list of reporters who gingerly went about his cognitive impairment and, in some cases, strayed completely from the story that’s come to dominant the global body politic.
Biden gave roughly seven-and-a-half minutes of opening remarks and then admitted this would be a farce by revealing he had “been given a list of people to call on here.”
Reuters’s Jeff Mason led off with a tractor-trailer sized question listing off concerns about his presidency from supporters, but no more than that. In turn, it lacked any bite (click “expand”):
MASON: Mr. President, your political future has hung over the NATO summit a little bit this week. Speaker Pelosi made a…
