For weeks the press was obsessed with Biden’s “age problem,” examining everything from the shoes he wears to his sleeping habits. They demanded that his doctors appear before the media and take questions even after they testified to his good health. They pored over white house logs to determine if a specialist was secretly visiting him. Ok, fair enough. His performance at the debate in June validated the idea that he was no longer the man he once was and that another four years was probably too much.
Then the younger Kamala Harris replaced him and they have dogged her mercilessly for failing to give enough interviews feeding the Trump campaign’s theme that she’s avoiding the press because she’s incapable of doing them. Now she’s talking to anyone who will listen, even Fox news tomorrow and possibly Joe Rogan’s podcast. They still don’t seem satisfied.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump sounds like an addled old man after having one too many down at the pub, rambling on about the old days and yelling about all the foreigners eating the pets, (and he doesn’t even drink.) He’s holding rallies in places he can’t win and last night stopped his town hall for some medical emergencies in the crowd and never started up again, instead opting to play his (very weird) DJ playlist and bob around on the stage for 39 minutes. He’s cancelling one interview after another. Just today he abruptly backed out of one with CNBC’s Joe Kernen,
I’m just not seeing the same emphasis in the media put on Trump’s bizarre behavior as the press put on Biden and Harris. He’s not behaving normally, even for him.The reporting suggests that everything’s going as planned but it’s hard to imagine they actually believe that. Something is off and it sure looks like it’s Trump.
The race is tied and this man could be elected president again in three short weeks. He’s 78 years old and if there’s something going on with him, we should know it. Why is there not the kind of full court press on his medical records that there was on Hillary Clinton in 2016 or Biden last summer? Why aren’t they asking every Republican and every surrogate to explain why he’s acting so strangely? I realize they will lie but the media knows very well that it’s te asking of the question that draws attention to the problem.
If he wins it will be a nightmare. And sadly, if he doesn’t make it, a bizarre, virtually unknown chameleon by the name of JD Vance will be president. The media owes it to the country to sound the alarm. Trump isn’t right, even by his standards and it’s getting worse.