Seth Meyers mocks media frenzy over Biden 'cover-up,' says his age was 'worst-kept secret'

NBC "Late Night" big Seth Meyers mocked the thought of erstwhile President Joe Biden's declining wellness being a large governmental scandal, claiming it "was the worst cover-up successful American history."

Questions astir Biden's wellness person resurfaced aft the merchandise of "Original Sin," a caller publication by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios writer Alex Thompson, which alleges that Biden's interior ellipse concealed the president's flailing health and cognitive diminution for years, contempt telling the nationalist that helium was mentally crisp and acceptable for office. 

Meyers ripped the media for paying attraction to the Biden "cover-up" when, according to him, "The Trump Administration and Republicans successful Congress are rapidly dismantling American civilian nine and turning the state into a reclusive oligarchy."

"But I don't privation to speech astir immoderate of that and neither does the media. We some privation to speech astir thing mode much important. Joe Biden is, and has been, for a while, precise old," helium said sarcastically.

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Late-night big Seth Meyers dismissed the media fervor implicit an alleged Biden ‘cover-up’ connected his Monday nighttime show. (NBC/Screenshot)

After playing a montage of figures calling the cover-up a media scandal, Meyers joked, "They're right. This is the biggest ungraded successful history, bigger than Watergate, bigger than Iran-Contra, bigger than the Teapot Dome Scandal."

The late-night big argued that the president's precocious property wasn't a concealed and the bulk of Americans were against him running for re-election successful the 2024 campaign, believing him to beryllium excessively aged to service again.

"Now, you mightiness beryllium reasoning to yourself, 'Wait, didn't everybody already cognize that Joe Biden was old?'" Meyers asked. "'Didn't canvass aft canvass amusement that the immense bulk of Americans, including a wide bulk of Democrats, thought helium was too old to tally for reelection, and wanted idiosyncratic else? Didn't helium biff it truthful atrocious successful the debate that his ain party undertook an unprecedented effort to successfully unit him out of the race?'" 

"'Weren't Democrats ultimately punished for Biden's disastrous choice to tally again erstwhile they got their asses kicked successful the November election?'" he continued. "'Didn't Seth play that clip of Biden falling up the stairs, like, 1,000 times?'"

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President Joe Biden's cognitive diminution was known to his interior circle, according to caller bombshell books released this year. (Derek White/Getty Images for DNC)

"This was connected TV, everyone saw it," he said of Biden stumbling portion walking up the stairs of Air Force One successful 2021.

"If this was a cover-up, if this was the worst [bleep] cover-up in American history. It was the worst-kept secret since Mika and Joe," helium joked, referring to the narration of "Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough who wed successful 2018 aft years of co-hosting the greeting MSNBC show.

"This was lone similar Watergate if the break-in had been live-streamed connected Twitch," Meyers added.

After poking amusive astatine reports that Biden got mislaid successful his closet successful the White House, Meyers turned serious.

"It was conscionable a disastrous governmental choice. And the radical who merit disapproval for that are Biden, the aides who convinced him and themselves that helium should disregard world and tally again," helium concluded.

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Late-night big Seth Meyers dismissed Special Counsel Robert Hur's study successful February 2024 which said President Biden demonstrated representation issues. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Meyer's Monday nighttime amusement appears to beryllium the archetypal clip helium referenced the Biden cover-up revelations from Tapper's book, according to Grabien transcripts.

Meyer and chap wide late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel person each welcomed Biden for affable interviews. Most recently, Biden was connected "Late Night with Seth Meyers" successful February 2024, conscionable days aft the merchandise of Special Counsel Robert Hur's report.

Hur was heavy attacked by the media astatine the clip for calling Biden a "sympathetic, well-meaning aged antheral with a mediocre memory" successful his report.

During his February 2024 interrogation of Biden, Meyers mildly broached the taxable of Biden's property earlier rapidly moving connected to different topics. 

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Questions astir then-President Biden’s fittingness to service different word exploded pursuing a disastrous statesmanlike statement successful June 2024.  (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

After Hur's study was released a fewer days later, Meyers called the peculiar counsel's comments a "gratuitous hypothetical" and stressed that Hur was a "Republican attorney" who "was primitively appointed by Trump."

"If that benignant of connection was due successful a ineligible finding, past prosecutors could person done the aforesaid happening to Trump," Meyers said earlier repeatedly drafting attraction to President Donald Trump's intelligence acuity.

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Fox News' Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.