The media blitz for "Original Sin" continues, and co-author Jake Tapper of CNN once again found himself hawking his book on CNN, which was fully complicit in covering up.
I'll admit, way back when, I actually thought Tapper was one of the more honest journalists, but now he's just exposed himself as a complete fraud, writing a book after the fact on what he should have been reporting at the time.
Tapper's co-author, Alex Thompson of Axios, found himself doing a solo interview on News Nation and said a source told him he was amazed at how gullible the press were and how shamelessly they were able to spin things.
Alex Thompson Recalls Dem Insider’s Shock At How ‘Easily’ Gullible Media Bought Into Their ‘Spin’ on Biden’s Healthhttps://t.co/lVp4wLxIkp
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 21, 2025
What happened to the excuse that the White House just lied to the media and the American people and Joe Biden's own Cabinet, and they were had? Now they're just coming out and admitting to spinning the story.
Mediaite reports:
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Thompson also revealed that one insider he spoke to for the book angrily confronted him and admitted they were surprised how much “spin” the media was willing to buy about Biden’s health.
“I had one conversation with someone, this was after the election, while we were reporting this book, and this person said, ‘Listen, yes, we deserve blame for X, Y, Z. We were hiding him. We were.’ But this person also sort of got in my face, and they said, ‘Listen, the media deserves some blame, too.’ Like we were sort of amazed at some of the stuff we were able to spin and get on,” he said.
Thompson admitted there was truth to what the person was saying about the media and its lack of skepticism about Biden’s administration.
“They’re just like, ‘You guys should not have believed us so easily.’ And I thought that was like a really interesting, but I also think that’s true,” he said. “I think the media, and in a lot of ways, was not skeptical enough and did not remember the less that, they do it to different degrees, but every White House lies.”
"This was after the election." No kidding.
If every White House lies, why was Fox News' Peter Doocy the only one to ask about the so-called "cheap fakes" at the White House press briefings?
As I said above, Tapper was back on CNN with Wolf Blitzer in his Situation Room or whatever he calls it and admitted that he was "too polite" in his coverage of the president. He sure wasn't polite with Lara Trump when he blew up at her for suggesting Biden might be suffering cognitive impairment.
NEW: Book salesman Jake Tapper says he was simply "too polite" in the past, which is why he missed President Biden's very public mental decline.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 22, 2025
The grifter also accused *Trump* of not being transparent.
"President Trump, while he appears healthy, he has not been transparent… pic.twitter.com/LMvxT5z6CZ
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… about his health records."
Calm down, guys ... @jaketapper is just too nice of a guy to notice Biden's mental decline.
Sure, pivot to Donald Trump. He appears healthy, but how did Biden appear when they were covering up for him?
I like the way Collin Rugg referred to Tapper as a "book salesman." They apparently conducted more than 200 interviews for the book, and zero while they were being paid to cover the Biden White House.
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