Jake Tapper’s book Original Sin continues to draw attention to his potential involvement in covering up Biden’s decline. Appearing on former Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly’s podcast, Tapper was asked if his failure to cover Biden’s obvious decline was due to willful blindness.
“Jake, the criticism has been that you’re complaining about a cover-up about Joe Biden’s mental acuity that failed … and that was no mystery even to left-wing and so-called mainstream reporters who were not fooled but chose willful blindness instead of honest reporting and that you were part of it. How do you respond?”
Tapper said Democrats justified misrepresenting Biden’s decline due to the existential threat posed by Donald Trump, believing that only Biden could defeat him.
“I would say that Alex and I, after Election Day, interviewed more than 200 people. 200 mostly Democratic insiders … after the election and they justified to themselves what they had done in terms of misrepresenting how the President was, not just, to me and Alex and other reporters, but also just to each other … by saying that there was this existential threat of Donald Trump and only Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump, and that justified everything in their minds,” he claimed.
He added that after Trump won, Democrats were more open to candidly discussing what they saw behind closed doors. “After that existential threat was over because the election was over and Donald Trump won, they were, we found Alex and myself, remarkably willing to talk to us either off the record or on background or in some cases on the record about what they saw.”
Tapper claims that it was at that moment that he realized Biden existed in two forms: the more refined Biden and the non-functional one who showed up during the debate that ultimately led to his withdrawal. “One of the things that emerged was that there were two Bidens. One was the fine Biden, serviceable, adequate, and the other one was a non-functioning Biden, and that’s the one we saw the night of the debate, and that’s the one we saw some clips of here and there that you just showed.”
Tapper explained that the non-functional Biden had extraordinarily lost his train of thought and had trouble articulating or remembering the names of his aides. Ironically, Tapper had lashed out at First Daughter Lara Trump for pointing out that Biden had problems articulating.
Nonetheless, he said that the non-functional Biden had appeared since 2015 after he lost his firstborn son, Beau, suggesting that he was cognitively challenged when he was elected in 2020. “That non-functioning Biden was, according to our reporting, showed up as far back as 2015, after the death of Beau, where one top aide said that tragedy, the loss of Beau, was like watching somebody pour water on sand.”
“Obviously, in 2019, 2020, there were other moments like that. Most of his campaign staff and others would say like he’s, you know, he’s 78, he’s 79, he has senior moments, but he’s fine, he’s fine, he’s fine.”
When speaking to fellow Russian hoaxer Adam Schiff, Tapper himself defended Biden’s decline using his advanced age as an excuse. Trump, who’s not much younger than him, according to Tapper, and is mentally acute, recently said that “Biden is the worst thing that’s ever happened to old people.”
“He’s 81, and his memory, you know, it doesn’t seem great; it’s not horrible, but I don’t understand the outrage,” he said.
Nonetheless, Tapper told Kelly that the non-functional Biden started showing up more often, and kept getting worse, “deteriorating tremendously.”
Tapper rumbled on about Biden’s decline but did not explain why journalists like him with inside access could not see the obvious signs of decline that most Americans could see from their television.
In response, Tapper told Kelly that he looks at his coverage of Biden with humility and wishes he covered more. However, it was a far cry from the sincere apology that many Americans expect from him.
“I didn’t. And like I said, I feel humility about my coverage.”
‘I’ve said, I look back at my coverage with humility and — and I wish I did cover the issues of age and acuity, but I wish I had covered them much more, and I wish — I mean, of course, in — it’s May 2025. Do I wish that in that 10-, 15-minute interview I had with Biden in October 2022, that this had been the only subject because I had then what I know now,” he claimed.
However, Kelly would have none of that and insisted that he had more chances of covering Biden’s decline. “But it wasn’t just that, though, Jake. It wasn’t just that. I mean, you sat with him a couple of times in the course of his presidency,” Kelly pressed.
“No, I didn’t,” Tapper denied, insisting that he had just one interview with Biden during his presidency.
However, Kelly noted that Tapper interviewed Biden after the Jackie Walorski incident in September 2022, when Biden addressed the deceased Indiana GOP representative, unaware that she had died in a car crash. “Okay, right, and it was 13 days after the Jackie Walorski thing. But you covered the Biden presidency aggressively throughout the four years, and you didn’t cover mental acuity, hardly at all. I mean, time and time again when issues came up, you seem to be running cover for the president.”
When confronted with that fact, Tapper offered no explanation except outright denial. Nonetheless, Tapper has acknowledged that Lara was right and that “she saw something I did not see at the time.”
Never trust a Democrat
Never trust the MSM
…but I repeat myself
Any dem orientated media I will NOT read or watch.
The AP? Are you kidding? I killed a newspaper sub bc of their blatant bias.
ALL of it is media managed dem FILTH.
Conservatives are slightly better. (Except for Hannity. The master of leading Qs.)
The fact is, we were all saying years ago, even BEFORE the DNC officially nominated Biden, that the DNC plan was to: 1) Put the already obviously altered Biden in office, 2) have an unelected shadow group actually run the country for four years, and 3) have the dim bulb Harris as VP, who would be equally as malleable, in case Biden assumed room temperature during office.
Everyone knew it. Everyone saw it. The fact that they actually carried it out while we watched, and then gaslit everyone for believing their own eyes, is INFURIATING. They did unbelievable damage in four years and were rewarded for their efforts by the voters absolutely decimating the DNC in retaliation. The results of the 2024 election aren’t good enough, though. There needs to be accountability and nothing less will do. I hope Trump carries through with that.