Chuck Schumer Won’t Say When He Knew Biden Was Unfit To Serve

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) refused to answer a question from CNN anchor Kasie Hunt about former President Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline, saying instead that he was “looking forward” and changing the subject to attack President Donald Trump.

In the context of the forthcoming book “Original Sin” — which explores Biden’s decline and the lengths to which the people around him went to cover it up — Hunt asked Schumer a question that essentially boiled down to the classic “what did you know, and when did you know it?”

WATCH:

CNN’s ⁦@kasie⁩ Hunt to Chuck Schumer: “Did you really not have any idea that Biden was “not fit to serve a second term?”

Schumer: *refuses to answer* pic.twitter.com/misRQOnd9F

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 13, 2025

“I really do want to ask you about something that has been breaking out of CNN, our Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have written a book called ‘Original Sin’ and they call it a cover-up of Biden’s health and his cognition and his fitness, quite frankly, to be President of the United States,” Hunt began, and she noted that Schumer had met with Biden on a number of occasions in the months leading up to the disastrous debate on CNN in late June.

“Did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term?” she asked.

“Kasie, we’re looking forward,” Schumer replied. “We have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us, we have the whole federal government at risk —”

Hunt interrupted then, reminding Schumer that the entire premise of the book was that Biden’s apparent lack of fitness — and his insistence upon running anyway — may be the reason Democrats were dealing with a second term under President Donald Trump.

“We’re looking forward,” Schumer said again, making it clear that he had no intention whatsoever of addressing her question.

According to the book, Schumer actually met with Biden in Rehoboth Beach after the debate in June, warning him that if he did not choose to exit the presidential race gracefully, he was likely to lose to Trump and sully 50 years of public service.