Chuck Schumer Denies Misleading Public About Biden's Decline Despite Watching Proof On-Air

Schumer was confronted Sunday on MSNBC with footage in which he decried the idea of President Biden's cognitive decline as "right-wing propaganda."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who in February decried the idea that President Joe Biden was cognitively impaired as “right-wing propaganda,” is denying that he and other top Democrats ever misled the public about the president’s mental acuity.

During an appearance Sunday on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press,” anchor Kristen Welker played a clip from Feb. 13 in which Schumer assured reporters that he talks to Biden regularly and that “this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.”

That assurance came mere months before Biden’s catastrophic debate against his then-GOP opponent, President-elect Donald Trump, and before he confused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a NATO summit event.

Biden ultimately exited the race in July, only for his replacement nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, to lose the election. When asked Sunday what he’d tell voters who feel Schumer misled them about Biden’s mental acuity, he argued boldly: “Look, we didn’t.”

“And let’s look at President Biden,” Schumer told Welker. “He’s had an amazing record, the legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since [former President] Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, putting in 235 judges — a record.”