Breaking down Biden's first press conference

Imagine the Joe Biden of that press conference faced with a real international crisis.<br /><br />Breaking down Biden's first press conference.<br /><br />The event occurred on the 65th day of Biden's presidency.<br /><br />Critics of the Biden administration have called on officials to make Biden available to the press on a regular basis. White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds daily briefings.<br /><br />It took 65 days, but we finally got a press conference from President Joe Biden... And it really made you appreciate the phrase "be careful what you wish for."<br /><br /><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/breaking-down-bidens-first-press" rel="noopener">https://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/breaking-down-bidens-first-press</a><br /><br />The obvious observation right off the bat was that Biden is in obvious cognitive decline. Aside from his usual inability to string together a sentence without losing his train of thought, here are some other observations stuck out:<br /><br />Biden gets through first news conference -- with help from 'cheat sheets'<br /><br />Sean Hannity was quoted as saying this about it:<br /><br />"Our enemies are watching. This is embarrassing," the host said on "Hannity." "Have you ever seen an American president rely on a book of cheat sheets before? To answer a simple question at a press conference? It is pathetic. It’s embarrassing. And let's be clear here, the compliant media mob wasn't exactly throwing Joe any tough curveballs. They were incredibly polite and kind."<br /><br />Though Biden was fully dependent on cue cards for many of his answers, often reading directly off them. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a press conference?<br /><br />President Biden referenced "cheat sheets" detailing key policy points and the identities of attending journalists when he conducted the first formal news conference of his presidency.<br /><br />Photos showed Biden holding a card labeled "infrastructure," with key statistics and talking points. One bullet point noted that "Chin