Fox News Pushes Trump’s ‘Cognitive Test’ Taunt At Biden Presser

At the very end of former Vice President Joe Biden’s press conference largely focusing on the Trump administration’s botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox News reporter Doug McKelway pressed Biden about being tested for his mental capacity — a constant theme of Fox News and the Trump campaign since Biden became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

From the June 30, 2020, edition of Fox News’ Outnumbered Overtime

DOUG MCKELWAY (FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT): Some have speculated that you are subject to some degree of cognitive decline. I’m 65, I don’t have the word recollection that I used to have, I forget my train of thought from time to time. You’ve got 12 years on me, sir. Have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline?

McKelway, who has sent emails with white nationalist talking points and tweets attacking Democrats as “racial identity politics hucksters” while working at Fox News, seemingly ripped his question about a test about cognitive ability from the Trump campaign itself. Continue reading.