It's one of those things that is usually inevitable. A group of bullies gang up on the innocent and have a grand time at the innocent's expense. But then, something happens. For various reasons, the bullies turn on each other and forget all about their original target. For said original target, it is a glorious dose of karma. That utterly delicious scenario is now beginning to play out between elected Democrats and the mainstream legacy media. Now, as if there wasn't enough wrong with all of them, the finger-pointing over who knew what, and when, about Joe Biden's cognitive slide is heating up.
No self-reflection from @JakeTapper about cover-up by him or the rest of the news media. Instead, this morning he chastised Democrats for enabling Trump to win: Top Democrats “were convinced that they were saving the country from the existential threat of Donald Trump as they saw… pic.twitter.com/yar9QjDjpm
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) May 18, 2025
Authors of the book, "Original Sin," Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, appeared in the friendly (for them) confines of CNN to promote the book, which was released on Tuesday. In an amazing bit of irony, Thompson called out Democrats who had previously tripped over each other trying to get to a camera to proclaim Biden's fitness for office, and that he was perfectly fine to run for reelection, are now suddenly singing a very different tune. Thompson began by saying to host John Berman:
“A lot of these same Democrats who are now admitting that Joe Biden should not have run again, that he had cognitive decline, there’s a lot of tape and posts and tweets attesting that he was up to this job. Not just at the time in 2024, but for four more years, which was a job he was going to do. So you are seeing some basically try to reverse themselves, some try to navigate it, and some just dodging the question all together. You saw Chuck Schumer on [CNN host] Kasie [Hunt’s] show just last week basically just say ‘we’re looking forward, we’re looking forward.'”
House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), like Schumer, was also recently pressed by Wolf Blitzer and gave the same non-answer: that Democrats are "looking forward" and would not answer any questions about what he might have seen regarding Biden's mental abilities.
After saying the GOP “weaponized” the obviously mental decline of Biden as late as June 2023, Alex goes on to condescendingly scold the media at the WHCD two years later for not reporting on Biden’s obvious decline. Incredible. Enjoy the ratio. https://t.co/frqsUuZjaV
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) April 28, 2025
It's interesting how Tapper and Thompson do not include themselves in the conga line of legacy media "journalists" who told the American people for four years, as we watched Joe Biden fall up stairs, off bikes, and slur his speech, that he was running circles around his much younger aides. Tapper was all too happy to summarily shut down Lara Trump, who questioned Biden's fitness as early as 2020, accusing her of attempting to "diagnose" Biden's cognitive abilities and mocking his stutter.
Then, there was Tapper's partner in crime, Axios political correspondent Alex Thompson, who most recently scolded his fellow journos at the White House Correspondence dinner about "missing" the story. Missing the story? They didn't miss the story, they ignored it. Tapper, Thompson, and the rest of the wretched crew that is the legacy media, along with the people closest to Joe Biden, all covered up his shriveling brain for one reason: it would help Donald Trump. And now they have the nerve to point fingers at each other and demand that everyone answer questions? How about the rest of us point fingers at you, the Biden administration for zero transparency, and the media for journalistic malpractice? Tapper also added that former Harris campaign aide David Plouffe said, "Democrats must 'never again' try to tell voters that they 'are not actually seeing what they are witnessing.'” Ya think? Too bad it will be at least one election cycle before Democrats can try that new strategy out.
In the end, the longer the Democrats and the media claw at each other, the better it is for us. That means they have less time to scrutinize every word and deed of Donald Trump, and less time to focus on the fact that they have no leader, no ideas, and no plan for 2026.
The first excerpts of the Jake Tapper-Alex Thompson book on denying former President Biden’s obvious mental decline have been posted, and you can already sense Democrats don’t want to deal with what they have done:@TimJGraham https://t.co/EoJ1322UAq
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) May 18, 2025
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