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DEEP STATE DELUSIONS

Here's my exchange with @PressSec in which I ask her why @POTUS can't come to the briefing room to put concerns about his ability to rest.

I also ask if he has Alzheimer's, dementia or another degenerative condition. She said he does not. pic.twitter.com/UCSsZKwFvQ

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 2, 2024

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CNN’s @MJ_Lee: “Uh — you've said a couple of times now that the White House has provided thorough medical records for the President. The White House released a six page summary back in February. I don't think that was a full accounting necessarily. Um — and Dr O'Connor, in that… pic.twitter.com/QhLYggiuHW

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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ABC’s @RachelVScott: “You've certainly seen the reporting out there —”

KJP: “Yeah.

Scott: “— that this is not just a stand alone instance, that other people are saying that this has happened before. One, do you see these as legitimate questions, and also are you being straight… pic.twitter.com/Q3j81OGaGz

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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.@Newsmax’s @JamesRosenTV: “Is he disabled?”

ABC’s @RachelVScott: “One more —”

Rosen: “Is the President disabled?”

KJP: “No! No! And let me — let me finish with your colleague, please. And I know, but shouting out — come on. You know better, you know better. Come on.” pic.twitter.com/8IyVTtClJi

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell: “Is anyone in the White House hiding information about the President's health or his ability to do the job day to day?”

KJP: Absolutely not.”

O’Donnell: “Given the fact that it's more than a bad night when his political future is threatened, would he be… pic.twitter.com/X5j1J6W64c

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell: “Was he okay? What happened? And we've now gone several days where he has only done teleprompter comments.”

KJP: “Okay.”

O’Donnell: “He has not taken questions. I know you've announced a press conference. We appreciate that. An interview. We appreciate… pic.twitter.com/batgvpgXNK

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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FNC’s @JacquiHeinrich: “Well, the administration also used that sort of approach to counter The Wall Street Journal report, for instance, that interviewed 45 people over several months who criticized the president's handling of himself in meetings and broadly —”

KJP: “Which… pic.twitter.com/cb6R4C1oeR

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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AP’s Colleen Long: “I think part of the problem that you — uh — Democrats are articulating is that it wasn't just that he had a cold, but rather he had, you know, answers — he was trailing off. Um, he — he didn't answer some questions — uh — in a — in a sort of fulsome way. And —… pic.twitter.com/CaDKdstFsr

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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NYT’s @ShearM: “— I just think the question You know, it's — it's about — it's the way we look at our elderly parents and grandparents and it's — you know — um — you know, you — you — you maybe visit them once a year and you see troubling signs because you don't live in the same… pic.twitter.com/1rwG9UGvXA

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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McClatchy’s Michael Wilner: “Obama was 51 during that —”

KJP: “I kinda knew you would say that.”

Wilner: “— debate.”

KJP: “I knew you would say that. But it — but he’s not the only one. He's not. It — it has happened in the past. First debates for incumbents, you know, and —… pic.twitter.com/ymvteWS7Ak

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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ABC’s @MollyNagle3: “[Y]ou talk about how you've spent time with the President. You know, when you're looking at the time you spent with them, have you ever seen the president have a bad night like we saw on the debate stage during your time —”

KJP: “No.”

Nagle: “— here at the… pic.twitter.com/xiwHdeqeMM

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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Bloomberg’s Justin Sink: “Um, we've seen some real anger expressed by donors and Democratic officials sort of how you guys handled the President — shielding him away from impromptu settings and denying — excuse me — until last week that there had really been any age related… pic.twitter.com/9IhAZZogM5

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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NYT’s @ShearM: “We just posted a story, which probably — I don’t know — not sure you've seen —”

KJP: “Yeah.”

Shear: “— because we just posted it in the middle of a briefing —”

KJP: “Yeah.”

Shear: “— um, but in which many people that we've talked to describe, uh, accelerating… pic.twitter.com/DPWF5DjuQi

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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CBS’s @Weijia Jiang: “So, was the last time he was seen by a doctor then in February?”

KJP: “I just don't have anything beyond that — beyond the question of a neurological, uh, exam.”

Jiang: “Okay, Well, you continue to say it was just a bad night, but is there an explanation… pic.twitter.com/ALt5EKCpSF

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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Having watched today's White House press briefing (and tweeted video from most of it) and observed the White House press corps since about 2016, 2017, I can safely say these people want Biden GONE.

They are so eager to scatter and hop on Team Kamala or whomever.

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 2, 2024

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Two weeks ago, WaPo gave “Four Pinocchio’s” to allegedly edited videos showing Biden clearly displaying cognitive problems, dismissing them as “pernicious” efforts “to reinforce an existing stereotype” while quoting the WH to say they were “cheap fakes” to mislead people. pic.twitter.com/wOFbVaHe1x

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 2, 2024

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