CNN's Jake Tapper has been taking a beating this week as he embarks on his press tour to promote his book, "Original Sin," chronicling the White House's cover-up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline. CNN's public relations arm has poked its head out and claimed that one of Tom Elliott's supercut videos of Tapper defending Biden is essentially a "cheap fake." Tapper is coming across as such a fraud that he's reportedly hired a crisis PR firm.
But Tapper certainly wasn't the only one on CNN to join in the White House's cover-up of Biden's condition. Now that Axios has released a portion of the Robert Hur interview of Biden, "CNN Newsnight" host is telling people to listen for themselves as Biden forgets key moments in his own life.
President Biden's interview with Robert Hur has been released. Listen for yourself... He answers haltingly to questions and is forgetful of key moments in his own life, including about his son. https://t.co/OK8AdYvc5g
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 16, 2025
So why did CNN lie about it, Abby? pic.twitter.com/y1AlTL0uyF
— Extremely Careless (@Shanghaibeast) May 17, 2025
Ha! Oliver Darcy. File this one alongside Chris Cillizza's analysis that "Republicans keep trying to make Biden's mental capacity an issue."
Congrats on the cover-up.
— Jon Awe𝕏ome - Memento Mori 💀 🇺🇲 (@RealStarMan) May 16, 2025
You knew. You lied. You’re all pathetic.
— LG in AZ (@myfoureyedtribe) May 17, 2025
I was told it was a stutter. By your very own @jaketapper.
— Mave McGillicuty (@MMcgillicuty) May 17, 2025
You and your friends need to be humiliated until you cop to the fact that you knew.
— Drew Matich (@drewmatich) May 17, 2025
Okay. pic.twitter.com/wZv2kMDGm4
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) May 17, 2025
The White House released a transcript of the Hur tapes; a court filing last July showed that the White House altered the transcript, resulting in only very "minor differences." In other words, they edited out all of the parts where Biden's brain froze up.
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WORST stutter I ever heard
— Old Phlegmatic Jud (@cra11169) May 17, 2025
Speaking of last summer … ouch:
— BBG, Esq. (@bmetz131) May 17, 2025
Damning.
You are part of the problem.
— Cool Hand Longhorn (@mhanna88) May 17, 2025
There will be nowhere to hide as the truth comes out.
Yes, you and others lied to the country for four years allowing unelected individuals to run the country.
— Gorilla Stormtrooper (@ApeTrooper_USA) May 17, 2025
This sucks Abby. And by this I mean you.
— Stacy McGill (@boycrazystacy2) May 17, 2025
Phillips was right there during campaign season, reporting on those "cheap fakes" the Republicans were putting out. At least she's not shilling a book like Tapper, but she truly has no self-awareness.
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