Now some in the media, in a too little and way too late response, admits it. Former CNN reporter Chris Cillizza apologized Friday. 
“I should have pushed harder, earlier, for more information about Joe Biden's mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline,” he said.
This after the Wall Street Journal published an article that revealed the President of the United States was having good and bad days from day one of his time in office. Cillizza says he brushed off any suspicions he had out of respect for the president’s feelings. Now he says Biden's team were trying to gaslight the media and the American people the whole time.
“The White House and the people around Joe Biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything about whether he was in some physical, mental, or both, decline was offensive,” Cillizza said.
The eye test told the story
Curtis Houck of Media Research Center says the White House, the Media and the rest of the country knew what they saw with their own eyes.
“This is a generational scandal on the part of the news media and those that served in this outgoing White House,” Houck said.
Prominent in the scandal was White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre who repeatedly presented media with excuses for her boss' embarrassing public missteps or poor performances as she did here in the aftermath of his presidential debate with Donald Trump.
What Americans would like an answer to is their most-asked question. Who has really been running the country.
Gary Bauer, of the Campaign for Working Families, told AFN no one really knows.
"Over the last four years, we've been brought to the verge of a potential nuclear war with Russia. We've had unbelievable things done to hurt our credibility around the world. The list just goes on and on and on. This from a crowd that kept telling us that democracy vanishes in the darkness, and that's all they did for us in four years was keep us in the dark about who was really governing America."
Not taking a piece of that action
Houck says it's nice to hear an apology, but he's not buying the fact that Cillizza didn't recognize Biden’s decline.
“It's revisionist history to say, 'Oh well, we should have done more,’” Houck said.
"For four years, major political figures in the Democrat Party, in the White House and outside of the White House lied to the American people about the mental condition of the President of the United States. They were all part of an incredible cover-up," Bauer said.
Oh, and by the way, Biden is still president.
"You just wonder if there's some sort of international crisis in the next (week), who's going to be on the phone?" Houck asked.
