With former Vice President Joe Biden firmly established as the Democratic front-runner and polling higher than President Donald Trump in just about every poll, the propagandists at Fox News have decided the only way they can possibly slow Biden’s momentum is by pushing rumors about his health, according to The Daily Beast:
Since the end of May, Fox Business Network and Fox News star Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery and Fox News primetime host Sean Hannity have speculated on-air, on at least four separate occasions, that the current Democratic presidential frontrunner is secretly dealing with health issues, often comparing his condition to illness-related conspiracy theories the network pushed about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
Here’s an example: On the May 29 episode of the Fox show “The Five,” Kennedy made it sound as if Democrats were already starting to worry that Biden might not make it through the entire 2020 campaign, even though there have been no reports of any such thing:
“He is much more like Hillary Clinton, because if you talk to Democrats, who are working for different campaigns, all of the aggressive gossip whisperers—and this is where the action is happening in terms of opposition research—it’s people having a few drinks at a bar and whispering, ‘You know there is something wrong with the former vice president. But that’s what they are actively doing right now. And it is surprising because they are concerned with taking Biden down and getting their candidate out there.”
Not long afterward, Sean Hannity joined the smear campaign, telling viewers:
“Joe Biden’s tired. He does not have the energy for this. He’s not up for this challenge. They’re already hiding him like they hid Hillary. They don’t want him out there.”
Biden doesn’t have the energy? How about Trump? It has been reported on numerous occasions that the president doesn’t make it to the office most days until 11 a.m or later, spending hours in the residence watching Fox News and firing off tweets that often make little or no sense.
We can expect more of this kind of fabrication the closer we get to 2020. And the one thing it tells us is that the White House and their personal cheering section at Fox are very worried that Trump won’t win re-election.
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