Biden attacks Fox News in closed-door fundraiser

President Joe Biden inadvertently revealed 98-year-old Jimmy Carter has asked him to deliver his eulogy in a speech to wealthy Democratic donors in California on Monday night attacking Fox News.

He also took another swing at GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and said Carter, the ailing former president, has requested he speak at his funeral. 

‘He asked me to do his eulogy,’ the president said of the 98-year-old who started hospice care last month. And then added: ‘Excuse me, I shouldn’t say that.’ 

The president spoke to 40 Democratic donors at $7 million, 9,000-square foot home in the wealthy neighborhood of Ranchio Santa Fe, outside of San Diego.

In his talk to his base, he let loose on some of the Democrats biggest advisaries, starting with Fox News.

The president, referencing the 2020 election and the internal communications that have come out in the Dominion lawsuit against the conservative news network, noted: ‘Finally even Fox News is admitting I won.’

President Joe Biden arrives in Del Mar, outside of San Diego, where he was headed to a closed-door fundraiser for wealthy Democratic donors

Dominion is suing Fox News, in a $1.6 billion case, claiming that the media company defamed the voting firm by questioning their technology and methods. Fox is fiercely contesting the allegations.

In the documents in the court case, internal Fox communications revealed that many of the conservative hosts doubted Donald Trump’s claim the election was stolen from him.  Tucker Carlson even revealed he ‘hated Trump passionately.’

Carlson allegedly wrote in another text message: ‘That’s the last four years. We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.’

The former president is said to have been a huge fan of Carlson’s show, with topics covered by the Fox News host helping steer White House policies. 

Additionally, Rupert Murdoch, owner of the network, worried privately that his stars – like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham – had gone too far in their claims that the election was stolen.

In his email to CEO Suzanne Scott on January 21, 2021 – the day after Biden’s inauguration – Murdoch said he was being criticized for the network’s insistence that the election was stolen, the suit claims. 

‘Still getting mud thrown at us!’ Murdoch wrote. ‘Maybe Sean and Laura went too far.’

He also asked Scott whether it was ‘unarguable that high profile Fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen and that January 6th an important chance to have the result overturned.’

During his 40 minutes of remarks on Monday, Biden also told the story of Greene calling him a ‘liar’ during his State of the Union address, when he said Republicans wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Biden hit out at Fox News (anchor Tucker Carlson show above), saying the network finally admitted he won the election

Biden slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greeene for calling him a liar during the State of the Union address

‘The last time somebody did it, they got censured,’ he said, referring to former Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, who yelled ‘you lie’ to President Barack Obama during his 2017 State of the Union address. 

Republicans were infuriated when Biden, in his remarks, accusing the GOP of wanting to ‘sunset’ Medicare and Social Security.

The president was referring to a plan by Republican Sen. Rick Scott to automatically sunset laws if they’re not renewed, which Democrats say would include Medicare and Social Security. 

Several Republicans have claimed that is not the case.  

Biden noted those Republicans who shouted at him also reassured him that they didn’t want to cut those entitlement programs.

‘I hope they keep the commitment and not cut it,’ he said in his remarks. 

Biden and House Republicans are gearing up for a budget showdown. The president has released his $6.8 trillion budget that contains tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations to pay for his social progams and to protect entitlement programs while bringing down the national deficit.

Republicans have yet to release their budget.

Biden said Jimmy Carter asked him to give his eulogy – above former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter pose for a photo with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden when the Bidens visited their Georgia home in April 2021

In late February Carter entered hospice care.  Biden and wife Jill met with Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter in Plains, Georgia, in April 2021.

At 98, Carter is the oldest living former president in US history. He has survived metastatic brain cancer and faced a number of health scares.

In his closed door fundraisers, Biden often is more loose and on the cuff than he is in his regular speeches. The fundraisers are closed to the cameras but print reporters are allowed inside to record the president’s remarks.

Biden often uses the occassion to rally his base. Monday night’s event raised $1 million for the Democratic Party. The president, who has said he intends to seek a second term, is expected to formally announce his decision in the next few months.