Biden cheat sheet shows he KNEW vetted questions from journalists
Biden cheat sheet shows he KNEW ahead of questions from pre-approved journalists when faced with question of whether he was too old to run
Joe Biden faces new questions about his eligibility for office after he unwittingly brandished a cheat sheet with a vetted question from a journalist.
The 80-year-old made his latest blunder during a joint press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to celebrate 70 years of friendship with the United States.
The cards, prepared by aides, list Biden’s own senior officials who participated in the White House ceremony and potential topics of conversation.
“How do YOU reconcile your domestic priorities – such as re-horsing semiconductor manufacturing – with alliance-based foreign policy?” read Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian’s question.
It is the latest in a long string of blunders by the president since he entered the White House in January 2021.
Photographers picked up the memo, drafted by aides, with instructions for answering questions that reporters had provided in advance
The two leaders met to celebrate 70 years of friendship between the United States and South Korea
The long-serving Washington correspondent was one of two journalists called; another reporter demanded to know if the president was too old to run again.
It is unclear whether the second question was also prepared for the commander-in-chief.
But the president’s latest oversight will fuel criticism that since taking office in January 2021, he has rarely allowed himself to be fancied by the media.
In contrast, former President Donald Trump regularly appeared at White House press conferences to ask questions himself.
Biden has made similar mistakes in the past by leaving supposedly confidential notes in full view of the media.
Photographers caught him revealing a cheat sheet at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, last November that told him when to sit down and take pictures.
A close-up photo of the sitting president showed him holding a list of instructions that said “YOU will sit in the center” and “YOU will make opening remarks.”
The 79-year-old attended the two-day summit in Bali, Indonesia along with other world leaders.
Biden was also caught with a similar note at a June 2022 meeting with wind industry executives.
The 79-year-old was also instructed to speak to specific attendees, asking them questions and thanking them before leaving the room at the June 2022 meeting.
President Biden was prompted to wipe a yellow mark off his face during a Zoom meeting with state governors on Friday after an aide handed him a note that read, “Sir, there’s something on your chin.”
Earlier that year, Biden was mocked for using a printed “cheat sheet” with answers to expected questions as he faced the media to discuss the war in Ukraine.
The notes read, “If you weren’t advocating for regime change, what did you mean? Can you clarify?’ Another read: “Does this now threaten to shatter unity with your NATO allies?”
Biden had already prepared an answer on the printed card: “No. NATO has never been so united.’
And in an embarrassing conversation, an aide asked him to wipe a smudge off his face during a Zoom call with state governors in July 2021.
He regularly uses cue cards, and they were a regular part of the campaign trail in 2020.
But the repeated exposure of his descriptive notes has led to concerns about his well-being and health.
Republican lawmakers have suggested Biden’s apparent decline makes him unfit for a second four-year term.