If you’re part of the Democrat Party and the mainstream media, Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, the news website, threw you so far under the bus this past week, you’re gonna have Goodyear stamped on your butt for a long, long time.
Excerpts of their new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its CoverUp, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, came out in dribs and drabs this past week. It paints a picture of deceit in a White House hell bent on covering up Biden’s cognitive and physical decline, and a compliant news media that vilified anyone who dared to challenge that narrative of deception.
As far as I’m concerned, those are key reasons why Donald Trump got elected president for a second time. Because of their crime and their coverup, so to speak, there were no primaries and zero chance to choose a candidate to run against Trump. The Democrat Party poobahs picked Kamala Harris, even though she was resoundingly rejected when she ran for president in the primaries in 2020. She was anointed in 2024 and we all know how that horror movie ended.
The news media, the people who are supposed to be our eyes and ears, the people who are supposed to hold our politicians to account, also betrayed the American people. Why weren’t they asking the tough questions and demanding answers about what they were witnessing? And now, where are the news media’s mea culpas?
Jake Tapper, even though he’s written this explosive book, isn’t clean in all this. Guests who came on his show and who raised the issue of Biden’s mental competence, were rudely shut down.
To be fair, Alex Thompson, Tapper’s co-author, did write about Biden’s decline and got torched for it by the Biden inner circle.
And he wasn’t the only one to incur the wrath of the Biden protectors.
Special Counsel Robert Hur was blasted by Democrats over his 2024 investigation into classified documents that were mishandled and discovered in Biden’s former office. After interviewing the president, Hur wrote that he found Biden to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory…[with] diminished faculties in advancing age.”
Here’s the undeniable truth. The media, swallowed the White House narrative that all was fine and dandy with Biden and turned a blind eye to his physical and mental health.
Oh, Biden walks with a stagger because his foot injury never healed. NO! We now know there was serious discussion amongst his closest advisers that if he was reelected he would have to be wheeled around in a wheelchair.
Oh, we heard over and over that Biden was as sharp as a tack, wasn’t missing a beat. NO! We now know that at a big LA fundraiser he looked at longtime supporter George Clooney and had no idea who he was and had to be guided off the stage by Barack Obama.
Oh, Biden was deep into the details as he prepared for his June debate with Trump. NO! We now know he was totally checked out and slept through rehearsals.
Their lies were certainly exposed after that debate. It was a total fiasco, but even then, we were told it was because Biden had a cold.
Deceit, lies, coverups.
And speaking of coverups, amongst some leading Democrat politicians (cough, cough) Chuck Schumer, it is still going on! They just want to “move forward.” Democrats are incapable and unwilling to fess up and say they f’ed up and apologize to the American people for telling us Old Joe was just fine, when they knew, they knew, he wasn’t.
The news media should’ve reported on Biden the same way they rightly report on every Trump lie and exaggeration. They were seeing Biden’s decline with their own eyes but shamefully chose to stay silent.
As the Democrats now bellyache about Trump, about his whipsawing of the economy, about his fealty to dictators and potentates, about his disregard for due process, they have only themselves to blame.
This is a disgraceful chapter of American history.
One source for the Tapper/Thompson book identified as a “prominent Democratic strategist” damningly said about Biden, “He stole an election from the Democratic Party; he stole it from the American people.”
Yeah, but it wasn’t only Biden. He had help. Lots of help. Democrats must internalize the damage they’ve caused to the trust we have in our elected representatives. Until they truly make amends, accepting responsibility for their actions by declaration and by deed, they will continue to drown in the depths of American voter dissatisfaction and rejection.