Jake Tapper Admits It Was All a Lie

Democrats Knew Biden Couldn’t Lead—And Didn’t Care

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have been making the media rounds to promote their new book Original Sin. Every time they speak, however, the pair have confirmed what most people in America have known for years: Joe Biden was never cognitively capable of serving as President.

Even without delving into the book itself (for a thorough review check out Holly MathNerd’s superb write-up here), what Tapper and Thompson have to say about the book, about their interviews with Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill, and about public observations of Joe Biden even before the 2020 election makes a damning case that the Democrats knew full well that Joe Biden was mentally not up to the challenge of being President, but they advanced his candidacy anyway.

While neither Tapper nor Thompson will admit the obvious, they present absolute proof Joe Biden as President was a great fraud perpetrated upon the American electorate.

Joe Biden was never capable of serving as President. There was clear evidence of his mental incapacity before 2020, yet Democrats pushed him forward as their candidate anyway, knowing all the signs and evidences of his infirmity.

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson even just in talking about their book show the Democrats were more concerned about hanging onto Presidential power than anything else, including the Joe Biden’s welfare and the interests of the American people. They also show corporate media was more than willing to play along with that charade.

Contents

• Update — No Mea Culpas

• The Signs Were There Before 2020

• Alex Names Names

• Jake Tapper Failed

• Tapper Admits There’s More

• They Knew. They Didn’t Care

• Witnesses For The Prosecution

Update — No Mea Culpas

Anyone expecting corporate media to react to Tapper and Thompson with embarrassment, shame, and humiliation, will be disappointed. Corporate media types remain blissfully unaware of how bad a look they get in Original Sin.

Mika Brzezinski chose to be skeptical about Tapper and Thompson using the term “cover-up.”

Then Ms. Brzezinski turned to Mr. Tapper and Mr. Thompson, and brought up a subject — the book’s use of “cover up” — that has been criticized elsewhere.

“I want to understand why you’re using words like ‘cover up,’ which insinuates a crime or something,” she said skeptically.

In fact, Tapper and Thompson are insinuating not just a crime, but several. Remember, if Biden was incapacitated he could not authorize the use of Autopen to sign official documents. That opens every use of the Autopen to criminal investigation and possible indictment.

Appearing on PBS “The News Hour”, Alex Thompson did his best to fasten culpability on the Democrats.

Geoff Bennett: One of the questions that I have heard in connection to this book is, why is this all coming to light now when the American public was clear, I mean, this was documented in polling throughout the campaign, that there were real questions about Joe Biden's age?

And you have heard some people, mostly on the right, say all this book does is prove that the press was complicit, that the press had a role to play in this perceived, this alleged cover-up.

Alex Thompson: I mean, if we knew all the things in the book, we would have definitely reported it before the election. The problem was that, if you're doing reporting, you need sources to be honest.

And a lot of Democrats basically did not want to speak up because they feared it would hurt Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris and help Donald Trump. We didn't start this book until November 6, the day after the election. And, finally, people that we have been trying to reach out to for years started talking to us, people that had previously not been candid started becoming more candid.

And I think it also speaks to the fact that members of the Democratic Party, beyond just the politburo and the White House, they saw non-functioning Biden in the months before and they didn't speak out.

However, that will be difficult, given what Jake Tapper himself is on record has having reported during Joe Biden’s term of office.

Even Congressional Democrats are, for now, sticking to their original script that Joe Biden was fine while he was in office, and that Robert Hur’s report was a disgrace.

But there was no such public rethinking of attacks on Hur among congressional Democrats this week. “When a prosecutor decides against bringing charges, generally, there’s no public announcement,” Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told The Dispatch. Blumenthal called Hur’s comments “gratuitous and unnecessary” back in February 2024.

“Whether [Hur is] telling the truth or not, there are things prosecutors don’t get to say,” Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island told The Dispatch this week. “I think it was out of line.”

Democratic strategist James Carville went on Fox News to pan the book as not having anything original to say.

Democratic Party strategist James Carville said that former President Joe Biden's decline was clearly apparent to him and most of the voting public prior to the 2024 election, reacting to CNN anchor Jake Tapper's recent book he co-authored on the cover-up.

"And I think that Jake [Tapper], in that book, I mean, it was a good book, but to me it was a ‘water is wet’ book," Carville told Fox News' Will Cain of Tapper's book, "Original Sin," which came out this week.

Ironically, Carville is both right and wrong. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson do not report anything new about Joe Biden’s cognitive state, if only because conservative and alternative media outlets have reported much of it previously.

Yet by confirming what has been previously derided by corporate media outlets as “conspiracy theory”, Tapper and Thompson present a damning indictment of corporate media’s complicity with the Democrats’ charade regarding Joe Biden’s fitness for office.

The corporate media establishment can choose to be seen as completely clueless and incompetent, or as completely compromised and conflicted.

The corporate media establishment cannot claim to be professional journalists after this. Whether through stupidity or malice, their role in the Biden Charade disqualifies them from ever being seen as serious journalists ever again.

The Signs Were There Before 2020

By far the most damning statement Tapper makes in his appearance on Megyn Kelly’s podcast is that there were clear signs Biden was in decline as far back as 2015—and that people noticed.

Megyn Kelly wastes no time in hitting Tapper hard on his role in attempting to conceal Biden’s cognitive issues from voters. In defending himself, however, Tapper confirmed that Biden’s issues existed well before 2020.

Megyn Kelly: Let's go right to the controversy around the book, and then we'll get to the contents of the book, which I definitely want to spend time on. As you know, this book, it's right in the subtitle. It involves coverage of the so-called coverup.

But Jake, the criticism has been that you're complaining about a cover up about Joe Biden's mental acuity that failed, that right wing pundits saw, the right wing in general saw, that independent media saw and reported on. And that was no mystery even to left wing and so-called mainstream reporters who were not fooled, but chose willful blindness instead of honest reporting and that you were part of it. How do you respond?

Jake Tapper: It's a tough and fair question. I would say that Alex and I, after Election Day, interviewed more than 200 people, 200 mostly Democratic insiders, and almost all of these interviews were after the election. They justified to themselves what they had done in terms of misrepresenting how the president was, not just to me and Alex and other reporters, but also just to each other and to the world and to Democrats and to the cabinet, et cetera, by saying that there was this existential threat of Donald Trump and only Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump. And that justified everything in their minds.

After that existential threat was over because the election was over and Donald

Trump won, they were, we found, Alex and myself, remarkably willing to talk to us either off the record or on background or in some cases on the record about what they saw. One of the things that emerged was that there were two Bidens. One was the fine Biden, serviceable, adequate. And the other one is a non-functioning Biden. And that's the one we saw the night of the debate. And that's the one we saw some clips of here and there that you just showed. And that non-functioning Biden, the one that lost his train of thought, in a significant way, not in the way just that every human loses their train of thought, but in a way that shows that he's having trouble articulating his very views. And the one who forgot the name of close aides, who was not able to come up with George Clooney's name, didn't seem to recognize him, all that sort of thing.

That non-functioning Biden was, according to our reporting, showed up as far back as 2015, after the death of Beau, where one top aide said that that tragedy, the loss of Beau, was like watching somebody pour water on sand. That was the effect on his psyche. And there were other moments, 2017, 2018, you hear some, the Hur Report, one of the reasons he came to that conclusion was because of the recordings they heard of Joe Biden in 2017 talking to his ghostwriter, in which he was similarly inclined. Obviously, in 2019, 2020, there were other moments like that. Most of his campaign staff and others would say, look, he's 78, he's 79, he has senior moments, but he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. Well, he wasn't fine.

And throughout his presidency, that non-functioning Biden… would show up more and more and more, and he was worse and worse and worse, really deteriorating tremendously the next time there was a really horrible family incident, which was when Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart in the summer of 2023. And then obviously in June, he was convicted. And the thought, the fear, of losing his son, not to jail, but maybe to another, to a relapse, to an overdose, to suicide, who knows, was a very real fear. And the threat of losing a third child really just diminished him tremendously according to top aides. So all of which is to say that this was a deterioration, this was a progression.

And look, knowing what I know now, obviously i feel tremendous humility about my coverage uh that Lara Trump interview for example etc she saw some she saw something that i did not see at the time a hundred percent and i own that i did ask Joe Biden to be transparent about his health records in an interview in 2020 I did ask him about the fact that voters back then thought that he was not transparent at all.

As Tapper noted, Robert Hur had also commented in his Special Counsel report on Biden’s difficulties in speaking with the ghostwriter for his book.

In addition. Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires.

Tapper not only confirms that Joe Biden was in serious cognitive decline by the end of his Presidency, he establishes that the noticeable decline predated his Presidency by at least five years. Joe Biden’s inner circle knew about his decline and chose to push him forward as Presidential timber anyway.

Alex Names Names

For his part, Alex Thompson on “Morning Joe” names who he believes were the unelected cabal of puppet masters pulling Joe Biden’s puppet strings.

Alex Thompson: Well, I think a lot of these things started innocently enough to your point. You know, the speech writing team early on realized that he couldn't give the speech speeches the way he used to. And so the vocabulary shrunk, the sentences shrunk, the paragraph shrunk.

But by the end of 2023, I think it becomes clear that there is a bigger issue than just him struggling in ways beyond a normal principal, that there's actually a decline in his ability to do the job. And I think there is a point when loyalty, there's always a tension between loyalty to the principal and loyalty to the larger institution. And I think it was at that point that there was that tension. And I think they chose loyalty to the

Joe Scarborough: And who is they? And this is what I really, again, because, again, I know so many of the people that I'm sure you all talk to off the record who, again, in real time, we were sort of trying to sort through and figure this out. But who is the who in this conspiracy? I mean, is it the inner circle?

Alex Thompson: Yeah, the people that were in charge were Mike Donilon, Steve Reschetti, Bruce Reed, Anthony Bernal, the First Lady's Chief of Staff, the First Lady, and Annie Tomasini. Those are the people that saw him the most and that had the most control over what he was doing and his day-to-day.

Jake Tapper: One other thing, just to your point, Jonathan, is that… there is a difference between making sure that the principal, the President, has a teleprompter for when he's giving remarks in the East Room and having a teleprompter when he is doing private remarks in a 40-person fundraiser in Chicago, right? I mean, you would admit that, like, or you would acknowledge that, that that's one of them, sure, understandably, you want to, like, have your remarks ready to go in front of the American people because you want to make sure that you're saying the right thing and you're being presidential. A private event… with 40 or 50 people in Chicago that you have to have a teleprompter? Why do you have to have a teleprompter at that?

Jonathan Lemire: I mean, to that point, we did, though, Mika, what you said earlier, we covered in real time. I was in the presidential... I was in the pool for one of these fundraisers. It was in New York City. And President Biden, at the time, he gave us... He told a story. He kind of lost his way in his notes. He told the story again. And we wrote about...

Jake Tapper: The Charlottesville story.

Jonathan Lemire: So we wrote about it at the time, and we covered it here as well.

Mika Brzezinski: You are absolutely right. And since it was widely covered, and there are new things in the book, but they are… Two things. There were things that we covered, similar to what we covered, and also Joe Biden, the way he is.

Jake Tapper: The Biden-ness, as we call it in the book.

Mika Brzezinski: Yeah, where he called the guy fat in New Hampshire. Or if people came after him, people still like, they're like, hey, get off our guy. We love Joe Biden.

Jake Tapper: I think everybody would agree that we all saw him aging.

Mika Brzezinski: Yes.

Jake Tapper: 2019, 2019.

Mika Brzezinski: That happens to people.

Not only are Tapper and Thompson quite willing to name the unelected cabal manipulating Joe Biden, they are also willing to reveal corporate media’s participation.

Not only did Thompson and Tapper share vignettes about Biden’s incapacity, but the roundtable discussion prompted “Morning Joe” co-hosts Jonathan Lamire and Mika Brzezinski to share their own anecdotal experiences of a senile and addled Joe Biden—which the entire “Morning Joe” panel admit to seeing, even as they gloss over their refusal to report those experiences accurately.

With James Comer ramping up an Oversight Committee investigation into how the Biden Administration used the Autopen device, he should subpoena the official recordings and transcripts from this particular show. That so many corporate media personalities will publicly admit to seeing an incapacitated Joe Biden even before 2020 demands further scrutiny.

Jake Tapper Failed

While Jake Tapper clearly intends Original Sin as a defense of his own journalistic conduct, it unavoidably presents as confirmation of his journalistic malfeasance. Megyn Kelly made that clear when she skewered him for his treatment of Lara Trump in 2020, after Lara Trump (accurately) called out Biden’s cognitive issues.

Megyn Kelly: You know, you know, as well as I do, that there's a way of you can say, hey, there's this poll on your age. Or you could say you just forgot that Jackie Wolorski was dead. You you asked where she was moments after watching a videotape. tribute to her. You lowered the flags at the White House after she died. This happened 13 days before you sat with him. There is a way of pressing a man like that on the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and to the audience, and you didn't do it.

Jake Tapper: That's correct, I didn't. And like I said, I feel humility about my coverage. I mean, it's not like I was asking him his favorite movie or his favorite color. We were talking about Putin. We were talking about other issues of national importance. But yeah, I mean, of course, I've said I look back at my coverage with humility.

And I wish I did cover the issues of age and acuity, but I wish I had covered them much more. And I wish, I mean, of course, in… It's May 2025. Do I wish that in that… 10, 15-minute interview I had with Biden in October 2022, that this had been the only subject because I had then what I know now.

Megyn Kelly: Well, it wasn't just that, though, Jake. It wasn't just that. I mean, you sat with him a couple of times in the course of his presidency, and these issues were not pressed. Well, there was at least that time, and then there was the time at the beginning. But separate and apart from that, you covered the Biden's presidency.

Jake Tapper: No, no, no. Let me just finish my point. I'm just saying I had one interview with him during his presidency. And it was 13 days after the Jackie Walorsky thing.

Megyn Kelly: But you covered the Biden presidency aggressively throughout the four years. And you didn't cover mental acuity hardly at all. I mean, time and time again, when issues came up, you seem to be running cover for the president.

Jake Tapper: I don't think that's true.

Megyn Kelly: Well, I mean, we'll start with the Lara Trump issue that you referred. Here it is. This happened in 2020.

Jake Tapper: Joe Biden, as we all know, has worked to overcome a stutter. How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that?

Lara Trump: First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable to watch somebody on stage search for questions. You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was a stuttering. I have no idea, Joe Biden.

Jake Tapper: I think you were mocking his stutter, and I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.

Lara Trump: And it's very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world. That is all I'm saying. I genuinely feel sorry for Joe.

Jake Tapper: I appreciate it. I'm sure it was from a place of concern. We all we all believe that. Lara Trump, thank you so much.

Megyn Kelly: Do you want to apologize to Lara Trump now?

Jake Tapper: I've already apologized to her. I called her months ago.

Megyn Kelly: And what did she say?

Jake Tapper: I mean, I don't want to disclose the contents of a private conversation, but I thought the conversation went well. And she has said this publicly, so I feel fine sharing it. She said that she would never mock anybody's stutter. But I mean, after we did the research for this book and I realized how bad his acuity issues were, I called Lara Trump and I said, you were right.

Megyn Kelly: She was totally right. That's the thing, because when I watched that clip, and I'm giving voice to what a lot of people watching the show are feeling, Jake, I feel angry because she was right. And not only did you not allow her to make her comments, but you seemed to try to humiliate her. You had a hostility toward the position, but she was totally right. And then you lecture her on how she was in no position to diagnose cognitive decline. Which you guys do at length, including on page four of your book. You describe at length his cognitive decline, which is all she tried to do with you. But you had such a visceral reaction to her. And my feeling is that's because you didn't want to hear it.

Jake Tapper’s insurmountable problem with his 2020 interview with Lara Trump is that, as the clip Megyn Kelly played shows, Tapper was undeniably partisan. He criticized Lara Trump for even suggesting that Joe Biden might be facing cognitive issues in 2020. He was condescending, he was smug—and he was wrong.

So egregiously was he wrong in 2020 that he had no alternative but to admit he was wrong in his appearance on Megyn Kelly’s podcast.

That admission creates a larger issue for Tapper, for the corporate media, and for the entire Democrat establishment. Jake Tapper admits that Lara Trump was right in 2020 about Joe Biden having clear cognitive issues even then. If Lara Trump could see that, Jake Tapper should have been able to see it as well. Biden staffers and Democrat leaders had to have seen that.

Tapper even admits he should have seen those cognitive issues in 2020. Jake Tapper is conceding that Joe Biden was cognitively impaired in 2020, long before he won the White House.

Tapper Admits There’s More

On “Morning Joe", Tapper proceeded to dig his grave even deeper, by conceding there was much, much more to Joe Biden’s cognitive decline than his repeatedly tripping and falling in public.

Jake Tapper: The question is, what else was going on? Because I would argue that there's a difference between learning, as we reveal in the book, that he didn't recognize George Clooney at that fundraiser or that he couldn't come up with the name of Jake Sullivan behind the scenes.

Mika Brzezinski: I saw that. That's Biden.

Jake Tapper: Not being able to recognize George Clooney?

Mika Brzezinski: Yeah, I mean, I saw George Clooney. Fine, okay.

Jake Tapper: Anyway, or not being able to come up with the name of his national security advisor, Jake Sullivan. There's a difference between that or people, senators that we refer to in the book, having serious questions about how much President Biden is actually running things. That's different and I would argue more significant than Biden tripping on a commencement stage.

Jake Tapper is asking the right question, although far too late to help his reputation: What else was going on?

Was Biden’s inner circle using the Autopen to sign Joe Biden’s name to official documents even though Biden lacked the legal competence to authorize the Autopen’s use?

Were people inside the Biden White House using the Autopen to put an “official” imprimatur on their own notions of what Presidential policy “should” be?

If Biden did not or could not legally authorize the use of the Autopen, then every such use of the device constitutes at a minimum some level of forgery. It might even constitute perpetrating a fraud against the United States¹.

If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Readers will recall that fraud against the United States was the first count of Jack Smith’s “J6” indictment against Donald Trump. The offense Smith said Trump committed was quite likely committed by the Biden White House.

Irony abounds.

What else might there be? We don’t know, and we need to find out.

They Knew. They Didn’t Care

Tapper and Thompson drive home one point beyond any and all doubt: Democrats knew Joe Biden could not function as President, and they did not care.

Jake Tapper: I think the question is, Why did people who had serious questions about whether or not Joe Biden should run for reelection? Why were they so quiet?

Joe Scarborough: And who were those people, people inside the White House.

Jake Tapper: We have Anita Dunn saying in 2023, you know, are we sure this is a good idea?

Jeff Zients becomes the chief of staff and he's surprised that, you know, having come from Bain Capital, he's surprised there's been no stress testing. of this idea.

John Anzalone, a pollster for Biden, who's been with him since the 1988 campaign, or 1987, I guess he never made it to 88, comes in and says, let's do some polling on this. Let's find out whether or not this is a good idea, what the advantages and disadvantages are. And Anita Dunn says to him, there's no polling. The decision's been made.

I mean, why was this decision with very little process or conversation allowed to continue?

And then when people saw moments behind the scenes, and we have one very compelling one. You were in Ireland when President Biden was in Ireland in April 2023.

There's a very compelling scene with Congressman Quigley seeing Joe Biden behind the scenes, melting away, unable to really function. And it reminds him in a very moving way, because this is a tragedy. Let's remember that. This is a tragedy. This is sad. It reminds him of his dad, who died of Parkinson's.

Why were the why was there so little incentive for anybody to say anything about? I don't know that this guy is up for the job at the very least of running for reelection, not to mention, can he be President in January twenty twenty nine?

Is there anybody at this table who thinks that he could be functioning President until January twenty twenty nine?

To ask the question, however, is to acknowledge the answer.

Why were those people closest to Joe Biden so quiet on the question of him running in 2024? Because they did not give one tinker’s damn about Joe Biden. They did not give one tinker’s damn about what is in the best interests of the United States. Their only consideration was continuing their own access to Presidential power.

Witnesses For The Prosecution

How damning is the case Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson present in Original Sin?

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson show themselves star prosecution witnesses against the Democratic Party as well as the corporate media establishment. Everything they have to say proves Democrats knew before 2020 that Joe Biden was not capable of serving as President. Everything they say reveals just how supine and complicit the corporate media was in furthering the Democrat lie that Joe Biden was competent when the evidence clearly shows that he was not.

Holly MathNerd’s assessment of Original Sin applies equally to what Tapper and Thompson have to say about the book:

What it reveals about Biden’s condition as far back as 2019 is so alarming that if I were a district attorney, I’d be filing elder abuse charges against nearly every named insider in this book who was close to him during the 2020 campaign.

And if I worked in the Trump administration, I’d be flipping through the U.S. Code looking for a statute that lets you charge campaign operatives with treason by omission. That’s how bad it is.

There is no moment being discussed where those people closest to Joe Biden can plausibly claim not to realize the extent of Joe Biden’s decline.

There is no moment being discussed where those in corporate media can plausibly claim not to realize the extent of Joe Biden’s decline. The signs were there, and corporate media chose to ignore them. That Tapper and Thompson can discuss so many of those signs off the cuff now is a grim demonstration of how patently obvious those signs were.

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson just in talking about their book prove Democrats knowingly installed as President a man they knew was in cognitive decline. They prove that Democrats were prepared to keep Biden in the Oval Office for a second term knowing his dementia had become so severe he was simply not functioning on any level.

Tapper and Thompson prove that corporate media journalists—Jake Tapper among them—willfully went along with the Democrat charade that Joe Biden was competent, knowing full well he was anything but.

The only way this could not be true is for Tapper and Thompson to be lying.

Yet just in talking about their book, Tapper and Thompson are proving their own journalistic malfeasance. They admit they saw the signs and chose not to ask the obvious questions. They admit they saw the signs and chose not to do the obvious due diligence.

Because they are damning witnesses against themselves, we must conclude that Tapper and Thompson are not lying. If they are not lying, then, in addition to Robert Hur’s Special Counsel Report from 2024, in addition to the recordings of Robert Hur’s interview with Joe Biden in 2023, we now have the compiled record of Original Sin that Joe Biden was mentally incapacitated even in 2020.

America is faced with mounting evidence confirming an entire Presidency was nothing short of a huge criminal conspiracy against the United States, and against the American people. A man demonstrably unable to be President—a man unable to legally authorize even a single use of the Autopen—was installed as President by people who knew he was incapacitated, and did not care.

That it is not an exaggeration. Tapper and Thompson have proven that in abundance.

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1. 18 U.S. Code §371