To Rebut Reports of His Senility, Biden Hires Press Flack Who Helped Hide Lloyd Austin's Hospital Stay
Chris Meagher, one of four Pentagon spokesmen who covered up the former defense secretary's hospitalization, has already begun attacking journalists for reporting on Biden's cognitive decline
Joe Biden, 82, hired a publicist who previously helped cover up former defense secretary Lloyd Austin's secret hospitalization to defend him against allegations of senility.
The former president's team tapped Biden administration spokesman Chris Meagher to "help [Biden] transition past the first 100 days of the Trump administration," Politico reported on Thursday.
The hire comes amid a flurry of high-profile books detailing Biden's age-related cognitive decline and his family's, the White House's, and the media's attempts to keep his mental state quiet during his reelection run. Biden allies also fear that soon-to-be-released audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who said the former president came across as an "elderly man with a poor memory," could "further damage his legacy," according to Politico.
Meagher's history of covering up damaging health-related stories about Democrats makes him a natural choice to represent Biden. He was part of a small group of Department of Defense aides who helped conceal Austin's 2024 hospitalization following prostate cancer surgery.
Meagher, a Pentagon spokesman at the time, was one of four aides who knew the defense secretary was indisposed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from complications after his emergency surgery but hid the news from the White House for two days.
Austin's two-week hospital stint drew criticism from the public and national security experts who questioned whether he had properly delegated his authority--and whether anyone was running the Pentagon after an ambulance rushed him to Walter Reed.
Meagher has jumped into his new job as Biden's spin doctor. According to Politico, the former Pentagon spokesman "played an instrumental role" in booking Biden's first live post-presidential interview on Thursday, a softball appearance on The View alongside his wife and handler, Jill.
Meagher had already begun using social media to swat down stories about his boss's senility even before his new role came to light. When Axios's Alex Thompson won the White House Correspondents' Association's highest award for his reporting on Biden's exit from the 2024 presidential race, he used his speech to discuss the Biden administration's "deception" and admitted that the media "missed a lot of this story."
Meagher took to X to accuse Thompson of lying.
Alex Thompson is about to release a book about the cover-up of Biden's dementia, along with CNN propagandist and Deep State agent Jake Tapper.
Scott Jennings claims that this book will be a "nuclear bomb" of revelations about the Biden White House. (But not the media -- Tapper's game is to blame everything on Biden's staffers so that no blame can fall on his own narrow, womanly shoulders.)
I will just say watching him over the last few days reminded me that a whole bunch of people were telling us with a straight face that this man was capable of serving another four years as president. And that these appearances [are] coupled with what I understand is going to be the equivalent of a nuclear bomb dropped on the Democratic Party when Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book comes out next week.
I don't know that the Democrats have fully internalized what's about to happen to them between what he looks like today and what they're about to report.
You know, of course, that Mark Halperin is reporting that the Biden family is broke and is looking for some way to get the Graft Machine running again. Halperin believes this Rehabilitation Tour is all in service of that.
Note that it was previously reported that no one is willing to pay him his ridiculous $300,000 speaking fee. He's got to find some way to make the public want to hear from him again, or else all of his scumbag drug-addict children and grandchildren will be forced into actual productive employment.
The horror of that!
At the end of this clip, they try to wargame ways that Biden can start grifting again. None of Biden's options are good.