Axios’ Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper are publishing a book on May 20: Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
When the announcement was made, the internet went berserk. Old videos resurfaced of Tapper, a Democratic mouthpiece, defending Biden in the 2020 election cycle. When President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, criticized Biden zombie appearances in his campaign, Tapper wrote on Twitter that it’s “worth reading this remarkable piece about his stutter.” Tapper was shamelessly and dishonorably covering for Biden, who clearly had dementia. Now he’s trying to play Woodward and Bernstein and hawking a book exposing the very lies he helped perpetrate.
On X, journalist Mollie Hemingway represented the general response to Tapper: “The mother bleeping AUDACITY of you to do this after running 24-7 interference on behalf of him and mocking and attacking every single person who noticed Biden’s decline. The MOTHER. BUH-LEEP-ING. AUDACITY. Have you no decency? Have you NO shame?”
He doesn’t. He also, like most modern journalists, doesn’t have any street smarts. Living in a liberal bubble, Tapper had no clue how the news of Original Sin would be received.