Radio host Hugh Hewitt said Monday that President-elect Donald Trump should kick nearly every White House correspondent out, citing their failure to cover President Joe Biden’s health issues.
A Wall Street Journal article published Thursday revealed White House aides “insulated” Biden, even from cabinet members, as his health declined. Hewitt told author Bethany Mandel that most media outlets failed to cover “the number one thing” going on in the Biden White House, revealing the only reporter he would allow in.
“With the exception of [Fox News White House Correspondent] Peter Doocy, I would ban everyone from the White House press room who’s been in there for the past four years, because they are obviously of no use to the country,” Hewitt said. “They didn’t tell us the number one thing, which is he’s not competent. Why in the world would Trump let them in?”
Similar articles about Biden’s health published by the Wall Street Journal earlier in the year generated pushback from some media outlets and Democrats. Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese covered Biden’s mental decline in multiple reports and aggressively questioned White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on multiple occasions, including over the border crisis and anti-Israel statements by some Democrats in Congress.