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A story “near and dear” to Peter Doocy had the Fox News reporter shaming his fellow White House correspondents over the mentally impaired elephant left unaddressed in the briefing room.

(Video: Fox News)

No stranger to confronting White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the senior White House correspondent for Fox News couldn’t help but notice a lack of interest from his peers after The Wall Street Journal dropped a lengthy, albeit late to the party, report on President Joe Biden’s questionable mental acuity.

After Friday’s White House press briefing came and went without a question raised about the newspaper’s report on the “shell constructed” around a “diminished” Biden that protected him even before his inauguration, Doocy took aim at fellow members of the White House Correspondents’ Association.

Guest-hosting “Fox & Friends Weekend” while joined on the curvy couch by Carley Shimkus and Griff Jenkins, he remarked, “We have another story here 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.”

“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,” detailed Doocy. “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 no her list.”

“Typically, when I am in the White House press briefing room gettin’ an arm workout for the first hour, I’ve got a list. And if something that I’m curious about comes up 20 times, I’ll probably cross it out and go to the next thing. I don’t know if nobody else had this on their list of questions or if it’s just still so uncomfortable to ask even though this White House has, as of yesterday, only a month left,” he added, criticizing the number of questions about the federal funding fight that was ultimately outside of the incumbent’s hands.

Doocy did acknowledge that fellow Fox News senior White House correspondent Heinrich was his source confirming that she had wanted to ask about the Journal report, as she herself had reacted to the lack of questioning over the story.

After the Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra had pointed out, “Reporters did not ask Karine Jean-Pierre a single question about The Wall Street Journal report from yesterday that outlined how the White House hid President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline from the public,” Heinrich had posted on X, “some of us…never got the chance,” including a hand-raising emoji alongside the word “ahem.”

She further suggested it was “Odd” that Jean-Pierre didn’t use her platform to delegitimize the report, stating in part, “if my job were to speak for the President I’d be seizing the chance to swat down that report!”

As for an explanation of the lack of curiosity about such a monumental story from his peers, Doocy went on to state after a number of clips captured some highlights of Biden’s bogus claims throughout his administration, “I wish I had answers. I can’t get in their heads. Sometimes I would like to — most of the time I don’t want to.”

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