‘Don’t Try That With Me’: Stephen A. Smith Fires Back At Hannity When Asked About Not Spotting Biden’s Mental Fitness

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith pushed back against Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday after being asked point-blank how he could have “missed” President Joe Biden’s mental fitness.

In June 2023, Smith publicly criticized Biden’s bid for reelection, urging Democrats to nominate someone else due to the president’s age and ability to serve another four years. On “Hannity,” the Fox host asked Smith how he had missed the president’s mental fitness during the first three years of his term, highlighting how he had played “montage after montage” for him.

“Hold it. Let me answer. First of all, don’t try that with me. I called Joe Biden out a year before the election. I got raked through the coals right along with you. When you got raked through the coals, I was right there,” Smith said. “Everybody was like, what are you talking about? You don’t know anything.”

Hannity could be heard noting that Smith’s callout of Biden came only a year before the presidential election, to which Smith admitted that his criticism of Biden was delayed.

“But the bottom line is I was right there the year before the election. That’s number one,” Smith said.  “Number two, when I talked about Kamala Harris and voted for her, what I said is I didn’t want chaos replicating what we saw in his first term.”

“I figured you got the House. You can win the House. You can win the Senate. You’ll have people that can literally position her and pull her to the center and there won’t be as much chaos because I didn’t like the way that he acted. That’s all I said,” Smith said.

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