CNN Reporter Says Live On Air That White House ‘Beat the Sh*t Out of’ Dems Criticizing Biden on Age Issue

CNN’s MJ Lee reported on Thursday afternoon President Joe Biden’s advisors in the White House are beating “the shit out” of Democrats who are stepping out of line.

Asked by anchor Jake Tapper to expand on reports that Democrats are “furious with Biden advisors,” Lee obliged.

“You know, one thing that we have heard so consistently since that CNN debate some two weeks ago was how shocked Democrats across the board were by the president’s performance and seeing him be so halting and dazed at moments on that debate stage,” began Lee. “You know, we talked to a lot of folks who said, ‘Of course we know that he has aged. Of course, we had seen some signs, especially over the last year, of his decline in terms of his physical stamina, his mental clarity.’ But that version of the president that we saw on the debate stage, they said was basically unrecognizable.”

She continued:

And what my colleagues and I have really reported on is there is a lot of anger and the blame that is being placed on the inner circle of advisers and family members around the president and what these people say is this really painstakingly choreographed and stage managed daily operations at the White House around the president that is set up, specifically designed to prevent the public from often seeing the president in these extended unscripted settings.

And one thing that many of the folks that we spoke with that they are so furious about is this idea that when people have gone to these inner circle of advisers around the president to express some of these concerns, that they were not taken seriously or really brushed aside.

This is what one top Democrat told me, they said, “Everyone who expresses any level of suspicion or contrary views, they call everyone, and they beat the shit out of them and say stay on message.” Now, it is not just the inner circle of advisers that is getting a lot of this heat. It is also members of the president’s family who of course have been up there, really standing by the president’s decision to so far stay in this race.

Tapper followed up by asking Lee about the White House’s reaction to the concerns of elected Democrats as well as the public, prompting Lee to read a statement from Biden spokesman Andrew Bates, who said that “Joe Biden has always said that it is fair for reporters to ask about his age.”

“I do have to disagree with that, Jake,” added Lee. “The president has not always indicated that he believes those questions are fair. Having been on the receiving end of the president declining to acknowledge and dismiss when he has been questioned about polls showing that so many Americans do have questions about his age and his fitness.”

Watch above via CNN.

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