NBC analyst Chuck Todd went nuclear on Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in a scathing on-air takedown over what he called a years-long “cover-up” of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Todd, the former “Meet the Press” moderator, accused Schumer and top Democrats of deliberately shielding Biden from public scrutiny — and then feigning ignorance now that the truth is impossible to ignore.

The firestorm erupted after Schumer brushed off CNN’s Kasie Hunt, who pressed him about his own prior statements downplaying concerns about Biden’s fitness. Rather than address the substance, Schumer waved it off as “right-wing propaganda” and smugly added, “We’re looking forward.”

That dismissive response sent Todd into a fury.

“He is among the people that are responsible for this,” Todd said. “The leaders of the Democratic Party, the staff of the White House… And I have to say, I find everybody now talking to these authors — get out of here. Go home. You’re part of the problem. Now you tell us?”

Todd was referring to authors behind a new book documenting Biden’s decline, which also implicates top Democrats and members of the media in keeping quiet. The problem, Todd said, isn’t just the cover-up — it’s the performative outrage and the sudden finger-pointing now that the damage is done.

Todd didn’t mince words about the consequences. “Why is the Democratic Party in worse shape? Because of this distrust, because of this… what the public feels as if the party leadership let them down,” he said. “He [Schumer] could’ve said something sooner, and he didn’t.”

Critics were quick to point out the hypocrisy of Todd’s rant. For years, the legacy media aggressively defended Biden, dismissing legitimate concerns about his health as conspiracy theories or chalking it up to a stutter. CNN’s Jake Tapper once claimed Biden’s halting speech was due to a childhood stammer. Axios blamed one disastrous debate performance on a cold.

Now, many of those same voices are playing cleanup, trying to salvage their reputations by pretending they didn’t see what everyone else saw: a sitting president visibly unfit for the job, propped up by a party and media elite desperate to maintain power.

Todd, for his part, continues to argue this wasn’t a media failure — a laughable claim, according to conservative commentators.

RedState’s Sister Toldjah noted that Todd himself admitted he was tipped off years ago by a senior cabinet secretary about Biden’s condition. Even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) questioned Biden’s faculties back in 2019. So the idea that mainstream journalists were in the dark is, at best, willful blindness — and at worst, part of a coordinated deception.

What Todd calls a betrayal of trust is now becoming a political disaster. Poll after poll shows collapsing public confidence in the Democratic Party, which voters see as dishonest and out of touch. The damage is especially acute among independents and young voters, many of whom feel duped.

Meanwhile, Democrats continue to dodge accountability. Schumer’s smug brush-off is emblematic of a party that still refuses to own up to what it did — and what it hid — while a declining president occupied the most powerful office in the world.

As Rusty Weiss wrote at RedState, Todd’s meltdown was less about truth-telling and more about salvaging what little credibility the media has left. “All of this is performative anger,” he wrote, “designed to help Todd promote the idea that legacy media was innocent in this massive scandal.”

But for many Americans, that ship has sailed. The cover-up is exposed. The outrage is real. And the blame is bipartisan — with Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, and Chuck Schumer all sharing in the fallout.