Jake Tapper and His Co-Author Expose the Grift | Political News

When Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson began making the rounds selling their new e book, “Original Sin,” there was the thought that possibly, just possibly, some press members had seen the gentle. Perhaps they’d realized a useful lesson from their intentional obfuscation of Joe Biden’s clear mental and bodily decline, which left Americans with eyes and ears pondering who was really even working the nation. 

Well, did they? Of course not. As predictable as the solar rising was the inevitable publicity of the grift surrounding Tapper and Thompson’s sudden post-election revelation that a man who could not bear in mind the names of his cupboard members and once referred to as out for a deceased congresswoman during a speech may need been senile. Biden’s latest cancer diagnosis, which was virtually definitely identified about for years prior, merely accelerated the timeline. 

You see, “Original Sin” was never about having a time of true introspection surrounding the press’ position in willfully protecting up Biden’s harmful decline. In truth, the position of journalists in the scandal will not be actually talked about in the e book, with the blame as a substitute being put on a half dozen or so conveniently unnamed White House officers. That’s not to say those officers weren’t accountable, because they had been, but to ignore the culpability of Tapper, CNN, and the relaxation of the mainstream media was a laughably clear choice.

Sure enough, the pivot is already underway. Unwilling to lose their seats on the Washington cocktail circuit, Tapper and Thompson are shifting the narrative away from Biden toward, you guessed it, Donald Trump. As RedState reported, the former confirmed up on CNN to renew his vows with the left.

SEE: Jake Tapper’s ‘Predictable Pivot’ From Biden Exposé Begins

Jake Tapper, who lined up for Biden’s health issues and mental decline for 4 years then pretended he was shocked that no one reported on it, is now claiming that Trump isn’t trustworthy about his health and abruptly needs transparency from presidents on their health.

Unreal pic.twitter.com/ThoERiOYoa

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 23, 2025

Tapper later went on the BBC to parrot the similar line, but just in case anybody thought there wasn’t a broader strategy right here, Thompson is now saying the similar factor. During an interview on MSNBC, he sidestepped the scandal surrounding Biden to declare “we know even less about Donald Trump’s health.”

Axios’ @AlexThomp: “While we didn’t know much about Joe Biden’s health, we know even less about Donald Trump’s health” pic.twitter.com/li3MVlf1M4

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) MaDuy 26, 2025

The level of “Original Sin” was never to maintain anybody accountable for the worst presidential cover-up in American historical past, a cover-up that had extremely damaging results on the nation. On the opposite, the e book goes out of its manner to maintain no one accountable, granting anonymity like sweet or just outright ignoring main gamers in the scandal. Karine Jean-Pierre, who spent virtually three years repeatedly mendacity to the faces of the American public about Biden’s situation, only garnered two passing mentions. 

So what was the level of the e book? It permits Tapper, Thompson, and the relaxation of the press to declare they lined Biden’s decline even though they waited until it no longer mattered politically, and it units up the next 4 years of them claiming to have the credibility mandatory to obsess over Trump’s health. That’s the grift, and regardless of what fascinating confirmations got here from “Original Sin,” it was the plan all along.

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