TIME Magazine writer Eric Cortellessa acknowledged that the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent Joe Biden rejected the same interview request accepted by former President Donald Trump. As the lengthy interview came to a close, Cortellessa suggested a series of rapid-fire questions to which Trump agreed — but not before he asked if the TIME writer thought that Biden would be able to do the same.
“All right. Do you think you could do this interview with Biden?” the former Republican President asked. Cortellessa responded, “You know, he didn’t say yes. So I’m grateful that you’re giving me the opportunity.” Trump expressed his doubts that Biden would ever accept the interview offer, telling Cortellessa: “He will never say yes, cause he’s off. He’s off, way off.”
The admission by Cortellessa that Biden had declined an interview with the magazine comes as the corporate media wavers in running cover for the Democrat leader’s declining mental faculties. The Biden White House has taken great pains to ensure the 81-year-old only engages in carefully scripted interviews, often requiring reporters to submit questions beforehand. Most recently, the White House heavily promoted Biden’s interview with radio host Howard Stern, in which the one-time shock jock gushed over the Democrat President for a little over an hour and offered only softball questions.
Unlike Biden, whose communications team will abruptly end interviews when the 81-year-old Democrat begins to stray off message, Trump offered to extend the interview with TIME — eventually doing a follow-up interview over the phone.
