CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson are co-authoring a book titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”
These two left-leaning reporters are unironically publishing this book despite the fact that both of them were openly supporting and defending Biden throughout his first presidential campaign, his time in the White House, and his reelection campaign up until his cognitive decline became undeniable during his debate with President Donald Trump.
The book lays the blame for the cover-up on Biden and his family, arguing that they were “part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents,” according to a press release from the book’s publisher, Penguin Press.
“What you will learn makes President Biden’s decision to run for reelection seem shockingly narcissistic, self-delusional, and reckless — a desperate bet that went bust — and part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents,” the press release read, adding: Biden, “his family, and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could beat Trump again, they lied to themselves, allies, and the public about his condition and limitations.”
Tapper and Thompson focus the book on what they call Biden’s “original sin,” referring to his decision to run for a second term at 81 years old with obvious cognitive decline.
Conservatives rightfully blasted the book on social media, pointing out that Tapper and Thompson obviously took part in the mainstream media’s cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline. The right has been pointing to the clear signs of decline since before the 2020 presidential election, but they were shut down at every turn — with Democrats and the media even bizarrely claiming that Biden just had a “stutter.”
Tapper defended Trump numerous times during the 2020 campaign. When Lara Trump stated in January 2020 that she felt “kind of sad for Biden” as he struggled to “get the words out,” Tapper responded by pushing the lie about Biden’s “stutter.”
“Whatever you think of @JoeBiden and his politics, worth reading this remarkable piece about his stutter,” he wrote in a post on X, linking to an article from the radical leftist Atlantic, which claimed that voters needed to “be more understanding” of Biden’s constant gaffes because “he’s still fighting a stutter.”
Thompson, on the other hand, outright defended Biden in June 2023, once again trying to dismiss his obvious cognitive decline as “weird words,” “unique phrases,” and “quirky aphorisms” that conservatives had “weaponized.”
“Biden’s quirky aphorisms are sometimes weaponized by Republicans to insinuate the 80-year-old president is in mental decline,” Thompson wrote in an Axios article. “But Biden has been using unique phrases for years — but even some of his aides aren’t exactly sure what he means by them… There are legitimate questions about Biden’s age and stamina as he runs for a second term — but his off-beat proverbs are just Biden being Biden.”
Meanwhile, one social media user shared a clip of Tapper acting outraged while speaking to Lara Trump, who was calling out Biden’s cognitive decline. Tapper refused to let her speak and pretended to be angry that she would dare call out the then-president’s “stutter.”
“Just leaving this one here for anyone who doesn’t realize what a lying hypocrite Jake Tapper is,” the user, Mike Breslin, Ph.D., wrote.
“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?” asked reporter Mollie Hemingway.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) also responded to the book announcement, writing: “huh… the pot calling the kettle black.”
“Is it just 300 pages of you guys apologizing to the rest of us you labeled cheap fake artists or are you really trying this?” asked podcast host Stephen L. Miller.
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