MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend Claims Biden ‘Is Great Mentally’ Unlike Trump

Just one week after CBS News’ chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford criticized the media for their lack of coverage on President Joe Biden’s mental decline on Meet the Press, MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend appeared on the same program to say the Biden “is great mentally” and that President-elect Donald Trump is the one who is mentally impaired.

Sanders-Townsend who also served as Bernie Sanders national press secretary during his 2016 presidential campaign was part of a panel with Politico’s Jonathan Martin and former vice-president Mike Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short (clip starts at 43:19 of the show).

SANDERS-TOWNSEND: I was very surprised when you asked the question about mental acuity he didn’t more forcefully push back. The question on the table is: Is the president all the way there? And the answer is: unequivocally yes!

Now, people can say that you feel as though President Biden might be a little too old to do the job. But he is doing the job, and his mental acuity is there.

So I think that there’s a conflation of two things here. It’s his mental capacity, and serving another four years as old as he is. But those are two separate things in my opinion. And look, these people, they have known Joe Biden their entire political lives. I know Joe Biden is like, ‘Can y’all just please defend me a little more?’

MARTIN: Well, it’s not worth defending him, though, because at every turn the last year and a half, he has taken the path of the most indulgent turn for himself out than the good of the party by running again, by pardoning his son, and now, frankly, by some of these choices for the Medal of Freedom, going to Rome for one last trip. He’s not exiting in a way that I think reflects well on his party. And Democrats are deeply, deeply unhappy about it. And they should be frankly.

SHORT: It hurt Democrats in November to try to tell the American people something they could see with their own eyes wasn’t true.

SANDERS-TOWNSED: But it’s not true that the president doesn’t have the mental acuity.

SHORT: Of course it is Symone! The American people saw that for themselves.

SANDERS-TOWNSEND: What are you saying? He can at least put a sentence together…the president-elect is the one I’m concerned about.

Sanders-Townsend may be the lone holdout among the media who is publicly willing to defend Biden’s mental acuity now that the election is over and revelations about the lengths the president’s staff went to protect him have become public.

Some liberals have tried to attack Trump’s mental fitness in the past but after the presidential debate in June it became markedly clear which candidate could handle the rigors of the presidency.