“It’s messaging from the White House, and it’s clear as day because he’s tried to say it, they've said it, and now he’s got to continue to clean up.

“The difference here is that the answers are there, and one of the answers was actually not what he originally said,” Faulkner insisted. “If this were Donald Trump, that's just - that's where the conversation would be, that's how bad this is right now.” (Actually, Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson began calling for Biden to be removed using the 25th Amendment last night.) “If you want to play the Donald Trump game, ‘if it were Donald Trump’ game, this would’ve been the third time in four days when the left was screaming for the 25th Amendment,” Hegseth later added. On Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy said that “they gave him a script, and it essentially was a cheat sheet.”Ĭo-host Pete Hegseth claimed that it was “unacceptable to have a president of the United States who is not capable of answering basic questions on a foreign trip in the middle of a shooting war.” On Tuesday, however, multiple Fox News programs treated the existence of Biden’s prepared notes as a scandal in itself. For example, Trump met with gun violence survivors at the White House in 2018, and his handwritten notes included a reminder to use the phrase “I hear you,” which many people remarked at the time displayed a basic deficit of human empathy on his part.įox News, by contrast, ran a headline declaring that Trump had held a “ thoughtful listening session,” and even chided the so-called “ liberal media” for “harp on his note card.” The network also ran a segment in which a conservative guest declared, “Who doesn't use note cards? We all have used note cards. While there is nothing unusual about a president having prepared notes for a public appearance, the specific contents of those notes could well be newsworthy - a topic that came up multiple times during Trump’s presidency. A wide range of network personalities have now pushed this new set of talking points ridiculing Biden’s “cheat sheet,” including Outnumbered co-host and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany - who admitted that she also used to prepare such note cards for then-President Donald Trump - and even the network’s purported “straight news” anchor John Roberts. In an effort to continue attacking the White House, Fox News zeroed in on Biden using a prepared set of typewritten notes as evidence of his supposed inability to manage the presidency. To ensure his clarification of this question was not misunderstood, Biden appeared to reference written talking points when answering questions from reporters. Of course, the network had a different perspective when it came to use of note cards during the Trump administration.īiden said Monday that he “wasn’t articulating a policy change” in favor of regime change in Russia, when he had declared during his speech Saturday in Warsaw, Poland, that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” Instead, Biden clarified, he was “expressing the moral outrage that I felt toward this man” for waging a destructive war of conquest in Ukraine and for threatening the European democratic order. Fox News is accusing President Joe Biden of using a “cheat sheet” after the president referred to written talking points during his press conference Monday.

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