Stephen A. Smith slammed Jake Tapper and others in the media for the cover-up of former President Joe Biden's mental decline and said it "makes Trump look right" about lawfare against him and the fake news.

During the "Stephen A. Smith" podcast, the ESPN host talked about the revelations of the Biden coverup in Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson's book "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, It's Coverup, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” He said it's hard for Americans to know who to believe.

Smith said he warned Democrats two years ago because he could see Biden's deterioration and was "vilified for it" and "excoriated" for suggesting Biden wasn't going to make it to the Democratic National Convention or shouldn’t be the Democratic presidential nominee.

"I wouldn't feel so vexed, I wouldn't feel so insecure, I wouldn't feel so nervous if I thought we had a government that was committed to doing what's right, instead of supporting somebody for their own purposes or going against them for their own individual purposes,” Smith said. “As opposed to being objective and neutral enough to just give us the information."

"My point to you is that we saw it; how did Jay Tapper not see it?" he added about Biden's decline. "And as he [Tapper] continues to speak about all of this. Where's his mea culpa, because I don't see it."

"The hatred for [President Donald] Trump was so deep that folks didn't want to report on his competition in any kind of negative way," Smith continued. "Then if the hatred for Trump was so deep that you were willing to compromise your own professional integrity, whether you're a journalist, whether you're a pundit, a commentator, a politician etc., I mean damn, who are we to believe now?"

The ESPN host said he agrees with his pal, NewsNation's Chris Cuomo, who said that the "Original Sin" referenced in the book is not hiding Biden's mental and physical decline, but hiding the media's preference to downplay it.

"But you know what the bigger problem is? It makes Trump look right," Smith said. "Because that hatred for him that led people to compromise their own professional principles just to ensure that he didn't win the presidency — well, if you were willing to do that, then all of a sudden, does it not buffer his arguments about lawfare being exercised against him?" 

"Does it not buffer his arguments about fake news, fake news, fake news?" he added. "Does it not buffer the credibility that comes to his arguments that it was a witch hunt?"

The sports commentator has slammed Democrats numerous times following former Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Trump, going so far as to say that he just might throw his hat in the ring for the job in four years. Though as RedState has reported, he's been all over the map on that claim, too.

Smith recently hit back at sportscaster and NBA legend Charles Barkley's brutal comment about his presidential aspirations and said, "I believe I could win."

I have no desire to run for office," he added. "I have no desire to be a politician. I love talking about politics. I love talking about social, giving social commentary on social issues. And I love talking about sports. And if that somehow, someway, translates into me being in the mix and people talking to me about a potential political position, so be it."

"It's not where my interest lies, but I don't rule it out because I believe I could win, and I'll be damned if anybody, especially my friend and my brother who did nothing for years other than play basketball, yet repeatedly announced his desires to one day run for the governor of Alabama is going to sit here and tell me it's a bit too much," Smith continued. 

However, during another one of his podcasts, the host said he has "no intention" of running for president.

I have no desire whatsoever to compromise my quality of life for this," Smith said. "But I'll say this much about myself, I don't blame millions of Americans if they want me to. Because what the hell is the alternative? Look at you all … I'm talking to the Dems specifically."