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(New York, NY) – Everyday it seems to become more clear. People within the Biden White House — and the media tasked with covering the administration — failed to properly disclose the former president’s medical decline. Whether that’s connected to Biden’s now-public cancer battle, or his diminished mental acuity, when even someone like Jake Tapper starts singing about “accountability” in news — it’s clear something has shifted.
And a new poll shows Americans have noticed. The findings from YouGov/Economist show 42% of Americans feel President Trump has been open about his health. Just 31% say the same of Biden. This follows the extended campaign season — and Biden’s entire time in office — during which most people in news media argued Biden’s apparent mental decline was akin to a “conspiracy.”
The same poll finds that 61% of respondents feel Biden was “not very or not at all transparent” about his health. In terms of the entire group, 46% argued Trump has also not been very transparent — so it would seem the entire issue of presidential health, and how age impacts our leaders, remains murky.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, politics played into people’s responses. Among Republicans, 78% of respondents feel Trump has been transparent — compared to just 14% of Democrats who agreed. That same number (14%) of Republicans agreed that Biden was transparent about his health — while over half of Democrats (53%) maintain that the former president was upfront about such things.
In recent weeks, the former president’s fitness for office has been questioned. Reports have alleged that Biden White House officials and political allies helped cover up the then-president’s cognitive decline. Tapper’s book — penned along with Axios’ writer Alex Thompson — purports to take a serious and sobering look at how the media “missed it.”
