Former President Joe Biden secured representation with a major Hollywood agency just weeks after leaving office.
He has signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which previously represented him from 2017 to 2020.
“President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs,” CAA co-chairman Richard Lovett said in a statement. “His lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity, and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again.”
Under his previous stint with the agency, Biden released his memoir “Promise Me, Dad” in 2017, as well as his post-vice presidency “American Promise” speaking tour, which only sold about “85,000 tickets nationwide,” according to CAA’s press release.
The agency also reps former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, Fox Business reported.
Even though Biden has once again joined CAA, it’s not at all clear that he will be out and about much, given reports following his presidency that his mental decline began more than four years ago and was noticed by people on the 2020 campaign trail with him.
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy blasted his colleagues in December for helping to cover up Biden’s deteriorated mental status for years.
Doocy’s comments came following a bombshell Wall Street Journal report that cited more than 50 sources who claimed that not only has Biden’s mental capacity been suspect since before his 2020 election victory, but that staffers and those close to him have covered up how bad it was for his entire term.
Doocy, filling in on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday, pointed out that none of his colleagues in the White House press briefing room raised questions about the detailed WSJ report after it was published this week.
The report featured accounts from numerous Democratic aides, lawmakers, and donors expressing long-standing concerns over President Biden’s mental acuity and age, according to Mediaite.
“There were limits over who Biden spoke with, limits on what they said to him and limits around the sources of information he consumed,” the WSJ report said.
The report’s most striking revelations included claims that meetings were often canceled on Biden’s “off days” and that one-on-one interactions with him were deliberately minimized.
Doocy called the revelation that Biden’s been mentally incapable of being president the “biggest cover-up” in Washington, D.C., since Watergate.”
“We have another story that’s near and dear to my heart. It has to do with the White House press briefing room. Yesterday there were zero questions about this huge Wall Street Journal story that cites 50 people familiar with, apparently, the biggest cover-up in Washington since Watergate,” Doocy said on Saturday.
“The story, it was 18 pages long when I printed it, but the gist is that there were staff, unelected White House staff, who knew during the last campaign and transition that President Biden might be diminished, and they actively worked to hide that information from the American public,” he continued.
“And we don’t know what it necessarily means for his decision-making, but this is a huge story, and somehow there was no curiosity, and our colleague, Jacqui Heinrich, was in the room. She was not called on. I have a source familiar that this was on her list,” Doocy added.
Doocy observed that most questions during the briefing focused on Congress and the impending government shutdown, which was ultimately averted at the last minute. He mentioned that his colleague, Fox correspondent Heinrich, had planned to ask about the Wall Street Journal report, and he would have done the same if he had been present in the room.
A montage of clips was then shown featuring President Biden throughout his presidency, defending his administration’s actions on the southern border, the withdrawal from Afghanistan (which resulted in the deaths of 13 service members), and his promise to accept the outcomes in his son Hunter Biden’s legal cases. Despite this, after Hunter was convicted on gun and tax charges, the president ultimately pardoned him.
“I wish I had answers. I can’t get in their heads,” Doocy said about his fellow White House correspondents. “Sometimes I would like to, most of the time I don’t want to.”
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