Posted on 05/20/2025 10:31:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Eleven minutes into the June 27 presidential debate, CNN anchor Dana Bash slipped a note to her colleague Jake Tapper after President Biden gave a rambling, incoherent answer.
“He just lost the election,” she wrote.
The event at the network’s Atlanta studios — recounted in Tapper’s and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson’s new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” — turned out to be the most consequential presidential debate in history.
Negative reaction to Biden’s alarmingly disastrous performance led him to abandon his campaign three weeks later and Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place on the 2024 Democratic ticket. The election against President Trump was less than four months away.
Biden’s mental and physical decline had long been the subject of speculation at that point. The unraveling of the then-81-year-old incumbent president in front of an audience of 51 million TV viewers made his diminished capacity undeniable.
“It was just the painful realization that the White House had been lying to everyone, including likely, in many ways, to themselves,” Tapper said in a recent Zoom conversation from his home in Washington, D.C. “As bad as it was on TV, it was worse in person.”
The debate meltdown and its aftermath prompted Tapper to join forces with Thompson for an investigative deep dive into Biden’s deteriorating condition and how family and staff protected him from scrutiny until it was no longer possible to hide.
“Original Sin” is rife with examples of Biden forgetting the names of friends and associates he’s known for years, most notably actor George Clooney at a Hollywood fundraiser. At the same event, former President Obama led a dazed-looking Biden offstage.
Tapper and Thompson give a detailed account of Biden’s October 2023 interview with...
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We’re the victim here.
Cry me a river.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.2 Tim. 3:13.
Yet more proof the much of the media is spring loaded to believe any lie as long as it comes from the dem party. No double sourcing, no attempt to investigate, no journalism, just reflexive compliance and repeat, As for the rest of the media, they knew. they knew and sat on it until the most propitious time to profit from it
Speculation by who?? The only one's speculating were anyone who was not a hard core leftist.
Says a LIAR
That’s the ticket Jake. Just tell folks the MSM has been hiring only blind reporters for years and years. After all, how are blind reporters expected to be able to see Biden? Oh, and not only blind, but also deaf too. Yes, yes. That’ll fool ‘em.
Jake Tapper is a liar.
And no brains. Only a moron couldn’t see it with their own eyes.
The audience in the Emporers New Clothes.
Yeah, you just can’t trust your lying eyes.
Find and watch the Megyn Kelly interview with Jake Tapper. Kelly rakes him over the coals, especially about his softball interview with Biden. His response? “I asked Biden about his age!”.
Tapper is the worst example of a two faced scum wad.
He was directly involved in covering up the serious mental and physical decline of FJB, and now he says we were lied to?
Yeah, no kidding. He is the HLIC. Head Liar in Charge.
Even Democrats are hating on him now.
Tapper is a known liar.
Actually Tapper you are not stupider than me and you are in the industry and have first hand access to the man and his entourage. And I knew. So you knew.
We are officially halfway to “We didn’t say anything because everyone already knew it”
“Jake Tapper says the media didn’t cover up Biden’s ‘Original Sin’: ‘We were just lied to’”
sure, jake ... because you so-called “journalists” simply regurgitated whatever talking points ya’ll were spoon-fed by the DNC on any given day, as opposed to, say, doing a little bit of independent investigation or even asking a few direct, leading questions that would either expose the true facts or at least prove that the gaslighters were lying through their teeth ... but ya’ll didn’t do that because ya’ll WANTED to be gaslighted, because ya’ll would do ANYTHING possible that ya’ll could to keep Donald Trump from being elected ... period ...
so enough with the Crocodile tears you lying piece of shite ...
Jake, you’re either stupid or you were lying - which is it?
You did the lying, Jake. You knew.
They live in an echo chamber.
90% of journalists are liberal Democrats.
So, they all hang out at the same bars, restaurants, etc.
They all want to get invited to the DC parties.
They all want to advance their careers.
Their bosses are also liberal/Democrats.
So, it is group think.
They protect their own.
They have always protected liberals and looked down on conservatives. They hid the fact that FDR was in a wheel chair. They hid the fact that JFK was sleeping with MM and wore a back brace. They all knew Billy Bob Clinton was the ultimate sexual harassment perpetrator. They all knew Obama was a switch hitter and not born in the USA.
So, why would we be surprised that they all knew Biden was mentally and physically incompetent. He was THEIR guy.
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