In a jaw-dropping moment of media spin, former Obama State Department spokeswoman and current Fox News contributor Marie Harf stunned viewers this week by attempting to defend Joe Biden’s mental acuity — even after months of public blunders, alarming confusion, and, ultimately, Biden’s humiliating withdrawal from the 2024 race.
During a Fox News panel, Harf doubled down on what conservatives see as the Left’s favorite strategy: deny, deflect, and distract. Despite Biden’s disastrous debate performance and growing consensus — even among Democrats — that the 46th president was unfit to serve, Harf insisted there was no credible evidence of mental impairment.
“I have not seen evidence presented by a doctor or someone else that would say Joe Biden was not mentally able to do the job,” Harf claimed, drawing visible disbelief from the panel and millions of Americans watching at home.
Never mind the fact that Biden repeatedly froze during speeches, struggled to finish coherent sentences, and seemed utterly lost in high-stakes moments — including on the debate stage. To Harf, none of that matters unless a doctor puts it in writing, as if common sense and video evidence aren’t enough.
But she didn’t stop there. In a move straight out of the Democrat playbook, Harf pivoted — not to defend Biden with facts — but to attack President Trump.
She questioned Trump’s physical fitness, poked fun at his weight, and suggested that his own cognitive health should be scrutinized. “Donald Trump says mentally impaired things every single day,” Harf declared, seemingly unaware of the irony of defending a man who had to be shepherded off stage by aides while accusing a high-energy Trump of decline.
That’s when former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who has never been one to let political gaslighting slide, stepped in with a dose of reality.
“I can’t believe what I’m hearing,” McEnany said bluntly, calling out the absurdity of Harf’s claims. She pointed out that while Biden’s cognitive decline was painfully obvious to the American people — culminating in his own party begging him not to run — Trump has maintained his stamina, wit, and clarity throughout his campaign.
The real issue here isn’t just Harf’s laughable denial. It’s the continued refusal of Democrats and their media allies to admit what Americans witnessed with their own eyes: Joe Biden wasn’t up to the job. And rather than take accountability, the Left wants to rewrite history and pretend the 2024 disaster never happened.
As McEnany rightly noted, polling showed Biden’s own party had serious doubts about his ability to lead. Even his inner circle knew the truth — and yet, Marie Harf is still out here insisting everything was fine, gaslighting the American people one segment at a time.
Once again, the Left is trying to paint Trump as the problem while ignoring their own catastrophic failures. But the American people are smarter than that. They saw what happened in 2024. And no amount of spin from talking heads like Harf is going to make them forget it.