Journalist and former ESPN host Sage Steele is opening up about her March 2021 interview with President Joe Biden.
Speaking to Fox News Digital, Steele revealed how carefully crafted the interview was.
“That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured,” she said.
She added, “And I was told, ‘You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script and go.’”
Steele went on:
“To the word. Every single question was scripted, gone over dozens of times by many editors and executives. Absolutely. I was on script and was told not to deviate.”
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NEW: Former ESPN host Sage Steele says her interview with Joe Biden was completely scripted & she was ordered to not deviate from the script at all.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 3, 2024
The president of the United States can’t answer a question by himself. Insane.
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She added, “It was very much ‘This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups, no follow-ups. Next.’ … This went up to the fourth floor, as we said, where all the bosses, the top executives, the decision makers are, the president of our company, the CEO, where they all worked.”
Steele, who launched her own podcast “The Sage Steele Show” last week, told Fox News Digital she found the moment “heartbreaking” as “people who love Joe Biden and say they truly care about him have allowed it to get to this point.”
This is not the first time the journalist has discussed her interview with Biden.
During an interview with Bill Maher, Steele said Biden “couldn’t finish his sentences” and it was the “saddest thing.”
Steele shared that Biden “started to tell football stories of his greatness.”
“He goes, ‘I have the best hands.’ What do you say to that?” she continued. “And here’s the saddest thing — his voice just trailed off. He said, ‘I was good,’ and then he went silent, and he goes …, ‘Uh, never mind.’ I thought it was so sad because I realized that’s why he was in the basement during the whole election cycle — because even then he couldn’t finish his sentences, he struggled
