Earlier this month, after having announced he'd taken a buyout offer from the Washington Post, that paper's former lead fact-checker tried to defend his record to Mark Halperin. One of the topics was the media helping Democrats cover for then President Biden's cognitive state by pretending Joe was the person making the decisions at the White House.
But, according to Kessler, "we tried" to get the story out.
The Washington Post’s now-former Fact Checker, @GlennKesslerWP, offers an explanation for the paper’s lack of investigative reporting on Biden’s mental decline:
— Next Up with Mark Halperin (@NextUpHalperin) August 7, 2025
“We tried… but couldn’t get enough people on the record.”
Download and subscribe for @MarkHalperin’s FULL interview:… pic.twitter.com/WPVjNVPhQY
Looking back, no, the only thing Kessler and the Post tried to do was help the Biden White House press office spread their talking points:
New #FactCkecker --> ‘Cheapfake’ Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead https://t.co/LQkoNsI4Go
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 14, 2024
Karine Jean-Pierre put out the "cheap fakes" spin and much of the media, including supposed "fact checkers," dutifully repeated it.
Fast forward to this week, and Kessler now has a Substack and it appears he can be a little more open about what he really believes, not that it wasn't already obvious when he was called a "fact checker":
On Trump's Bullshit https://t.co/rReFqpoSST
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) August 21, 2025
Well, there it is.
Alternate headline for that Substack piece:
“On invalidating the entire body of my past claims of impartiality.” https://t.co/M2JwimFCz0
— He's dead, Jim 🇺🇸🇮🇱🖖🏼 (@JVinDC) August 21, 2025
That's way better.
But I’m sure you and your fellow “journalists” at the WP were completely impartial.
— SuperPratt (@HHrvynia) August 21, 2025
Kessler's always favored whatever the Democrat preferred narrative of the day was, but now it appears he's feeling more liberated to let his inner Acosta fly.
I see that "Fact checker" is out of your bio now
— End the Simpsons (@EndTheSimpsons) August 21, 2025
It never should have been there in the first place. Here are a few more examples why:
Just a few of Glenn Kessler’s all time bangers. https://t.co/hT0AII6voU pic.twitter.com/eHXdHxiob4
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 28, 2025
Before addressing what he called "Trump's bullshit" maybe Kessler should first do a little introspection about his own.
In which Glenn disassembles the entire mealy mouthed “what bias?” defense of his so-called journalism that he attempted a week ago with @MarkHalperin.
— Brother Seamus (@WaynePelota) August 21, 2025
Well, "fact checker" is no longer in his bio so maybe that feels liberating to this particular "journalist."
