After Vladimir Putin challenged President Biden to a live debateFox News commentators began to weigh in on who would win – and it wasn’t Biden.
“Putin and Biden? It wouldn’t end like Rocky IV – I don’t think the American would win, ”said Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz in Hannity on Thursday night.
“The point is this,” said Sean Hannity. “Why would Vladimir Putin immediately call a debate with Joe Biden without time to prepare? What am I saying? What have some of us – half the American people – been saying? “
Mr. Hannity said months ago that Joe Biden is in cognitive decline, and its allies conspire to hide its deterioration from the public.
“It’s getting a little scary”, the expert said on Fox News Primetime on March 1. “It’s funny because the media was attacking me for saying that Joe looks weak and he looks fragile and is struggling cognitively. Well, every day now, practically, when he speaks, when he is allowed to speak, he is struggling. “
In fact, Biden spoke in public during his two months in office and participated in two live debates with former President Donald Trump last year.
Some journalists were shocked at how Fox News appeared to be on the Russian president’s side.
“Fox News has been talking about Putin challenging Biden to a debate for a day – and they are rooting for Putin,” reporter Aaron Rupar of Vox tweeted.
“Watching Fox News openly rooting for Putin is a really remarkable moment in which the American right has become,” tweeted Ezra Klein, a New York Times columnist.
The Independent contacted Fox News for comment.
Putin proposed the debate after a verbal confrontation with the President of the United States that took place in recent days. On Wednesday, ABC broadcast an interview with Biden in which George Stephanopoulos asked if he thought Putin was a “killer”.
“Mmm hmm, yes,” replied the president.
On Thursday, Putin replied: “It takes one to know one.”
Then he proposed his idea of debate in a way that seemed destined to irritate the President of the United States.
“I just thought about it now,” the Russian president told a reporter on state television. “I want to propose to President Biden that we continue our discussion, but with the proviso that we do it basically live, as it is called – without delay and directly in an open and direct discussion. It seems to me that this would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States. “
White House press secretary, Jen Psaki refused Putin’s proposal, saying the president “is very busy”.
The Independent requested a comment from Fox News, but the network has not yet responded.