Jake Tapper: Biden coverup "maybe worse than Watergate"

[misanthrope]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jake-tapper-says-cover-biden-011048868.html

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline while he was in the White House was “maybe even worse than Watergate” in an interview with Piers Morgan on Monday.

Tapper said the reason the hiding of Biden’s health issues was a bigger deal than the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency was because Nixon “was in control of his faculties when he was not drinking.”

Biden, Tapper has said several times on his recent media tour, was showing routine signs of a man who was suffering from a cognitive decline, including forgetting the names of aides and celebrity supporters like George Clooney. A moment earlier, Morgan said he believed the secrecy around the ex-president’s health was a bigger offense than Watergate.

[Cha]

1. FO & FU Tapper... you fucking Simpleton.

Okay Die on that Bogus Bullshit hill.

[elleng]

2. WHO's worse, Tapper or Nixon????

[comradebillyboy]

37. I remember Dick Nixon. He was a better man than Jake

"The Snake" Tapper could ever be.

[2naSalit]

3. Jake Tapper...

Creates his very pwn bullshit mountain.

He can fuck all the way off until the next century.

[RockRaven]

4. Desperation. The discrediting of his hit-job threatens his reputation, and future.

If he overhypes the importance of his now-irrelevant tabloid trash, he thinks he can balance out the critiques. But he cannot. Because the ground underneath the conversation isn't what he was counting on; it is very much shifted.

It was a dumb project from the start, except to serve -- quite cynically and opportunistically -- as RWNJ fodder/justification/distraction of The Convicted Felon's cognitive derangement. But the market for that is slim when the Orange Anus spews forth weirdo verbal diarrhea daily.

If TCF could hold it together better, by comparison, maybe this Trapper trash would have more of a market. But it doesn't. He should stop trying. This shit should be embarrassing to you! Take the loss and slink away!

[agingdem]

7. Jake's nasty little screed is quickly becoming a lethal self-inflicted wound...

the sheer awfulness of Trump (a economy-crashing sadistic degenerate) occupying the White House supersedes Jake's tale of Biden's perceived cognitive decline...

Pathetic Jake Tapper suffers from delusional self importance, really bad timing, and an audience of none....

[Haggard Celine]

5. Jake Tapper might be worse than Rupert Murdoch.

At least Murdoch doesn't pretend to be something he isn't.

[brush]

6. Tapper is doubling down on his alleged 'Biden Mental Decline...

during his presidency while ignoring the orange anus in the WH now who is in obvious and steep mental decline as he and his cabal try to install fascism and wreck our democracy.

What is it, Tapper, are you blind now?

[Bookreadingliberal53]

18. He's come out and said

That trump is perfectly healthy and has no cognitive decline

[Wifes husband]

8. This is stupid

Tapper was born in 1969. Watergate started in 1972, I believe. He has only read about Watergate. A bunch of us actually watched it happen. There is a difference.
"Nixon was in charge of his facilities when he wasn't drinking" demonstrates the level of stupidity of Tapper's analysis of the situation. Nixon's being in charge of his facilities was what caused Watergate, dumb ass.
Nixon looks like a Sunday school teacher now, but at the time we had honorable congressmen who in general thought that lying to the American people, general corruption were bad things. They thought it would be a good idea to fix that. Things change

Biden should not have run for re-election. That was hubris. He was deteriorating physically, and to a lesser extent, mentally.
But honestly, on his worst day he was better than his opponent. He could express himself in complete sentences, and may have fallen off a bicycle, but at least he could ride one. Can anyone honestly believe that the chaos we live with now would have happened under Biden?

I am disappointed in Tapper. I thought better of him. I understand trying to sell a book, but I did not believe he would stoop this low.

[TnDem]

17. ?

Shouldn't he have said "In charge of his faculties". not "facilities"?

[Tom Rinaldo]

42. Time, literally, will tell

Issues Biden may or may not have had were at worst manageable in the present tense. He was finishing his four year elected term, and he had a seasoned team around him. Clearly, often at least, he was still sharp.

But four years is a long time once someone starts entering the early stages of mental decline, and the presidency is as demanding a job as exists, period. Again, worst case, a caretaker government say in 2027 with Joe Biden functioning as a figurehead (if it had come to that) would have governed infinitely better than one under Donald Trump. Or the 25th amendment could have been invoked if things got really bad.

The question was never: Is Joe Biden still fit to serve? At any point during his first term as President, including the final months, I would have said, given his wisdom and experience, yes. The question was: How will Joe Biden hold up during four more years in office? Joe Biden is in private life now, but no doubt there will be some indications of how his health is doing that will come out. Bill Clinton is the same age as Donald Trump now; 78. Maybe Bill has lost a step or two over when he was in office but his knowledge is intact. Bernie Sanders is two years older than Joe Biden, and he still has it.

But if Joe Biden does go into a rapid serious cognitive decline, it will be seen as a scandal by many that the Democratic Party was on the verge of running him for another four year term as President.

[PCIntern]

46. Tapper is a shallow fucking idiot whose only

Redeeming quality is that he’s a Philadelphia Eagles fan.

Know-nothing sanctimonious POS pretender. Probably near the bottom of his class at Akiba Hebrew Academy where he was undoubtedly outclassed by many. Talk about deficits. 🥺

[msongs]

9. his book sales are bad are they? nt

[Kaleva]

16. The book has climbed to #3 on the Amazon best seller list

[yardwork]

22. That's been manipulated, I'm sure.

All the Trump type books get bought up by organizations like the Heritage Foundation in order to manipulate the sales numbers. They sit in a warehouse for a few months and then get resold at big discounts.

[Kaleva]

25. Maybe but so far there is no proof of that happening

[yardwork]

60. True, and the problem remains, either way.

Tapper's lies are all over the media and the internet. I doubt many people are actually reading his book but in some ways it's even worse. Millions of people are just accepting the lies as truth.

[Kaleva]

65. That's quite possible

[GoodRaisin]

10. Tapper was CNN's loudest mouthpiece spinning up all the lying stink about the Afghanistan

withdrawal being “bad” in order to tank Biden’s approval ratings. Now he’s doing it with his “Biden cognitive decline cover up” bullshit. Guess he didn’t think he was getting enough attention so he had to say “it’s bigger than Watergate”. Tapper is an expert at taking lies and blowing them up out of proportion.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Tapper isn't a big student of American history or the Presidency.

Watergate? That was corruption.

Perhaps when Woodrow Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke after his trip for the Paris peace talks/Versailles Treaty. He was incapacitated and his Cabinet ran the government, unbeknownst to the public. That was before the 25th Amendment.

In any case, Joe Biden was in charge until TSF took his Oath of Office.

If Joe Biden weren't concentrated on his health these days, I'd say he has a potentially good case for defamation.

[IcyPeas]

12. Heres the entire episode from YouTube: (1 hour 8 minutes)

The panel on the 2nd half of Piers' show included Benny Johnson, Lindy Li who used to be a DNC fundraiser and Jillian Michaels and also Adam Mockler of the Meidas Touch network. He brought them on after the interview with Tapper to discuss.

Watergate is brought up at 27 minutes in.

Tapper says he apologized to Lara Trump after they had a disagreement on his show where Jake was talking about Bidens stutter but Lara was saying it was cognitive decline (see clip at 28:00 minutes into video). He seems to want to get on Trumps good side.... wonder why? Is tapper scared? They mention how Hunters laptop story was covered up too!!! JFC

[EndlessWire]

13. I don't understand

why anyone continues to flame on the ex President. To sell a book?

A lot of times, when you are under pressure, such as the Presidency, you function. As soon as you are not, like retired, you let down and don't function as well. Or, differently. People are different after they retire.

I think that Joe is just fine. He could have mets to the brain, but I don't think so. I'd much rather have him, even now, as the President. He is still viable. People are right. It would have worked, even if Kamala had to take over. We wouldn't be looking at Civil War 2.0.

I don't know what people wanted from him. Now that he's sick, they're acting like he was always sick. I don't know when he started with the mets to the bone, but I suspect that's why we got told. I hate people tearing him down. If he dies soon, I hope that rump is excluded from the funeral.

[Tree Lady]

38. I think its more to tear the democrats down

saying we are the liars look at what a cover up we did. That is what they are trying to do.

Poor Joe is just the fall guy for them lying about democrats again.

[Hugin]

14. Give it a rest, Tapper.

I watched the entire fateful debate and what I saw was a tired old guy with a cold. No more, no less.

[raging moderate]

48. Yes! And I think Biden's microphone needed some adjustment.

Trump's microphone was adjusted perfectly to his voice. Biden clearly needed to have his microphone amplified. I suspect somebody deliberately had it down too low. His voice was weak, obviously due to the fact that he was tired, with a cold. I have good hearing, and I was a speech therapist, so I could tell he was speaking clearly and coherently.

[Hugin]

56. I also took note of the fact...

Former President Biden’s replies were on topic and in context with the questions presented by the debate facilitators.

Unlike the continual off-topic rally style rant coming from the other side of the stage that had absolutely nothing to do with the questions shown in clear text at the bottom of the screen.

[Mike Nelson]

15. Huh?

... wouldn't the better comparison be to Reagan? I think Jake Tapper must know more about Watergate than I... how old is Jake? Maybe he's experiencing some cognition problems?

[dalton99a]

19. "Buy my book! Buy my book!"

Despicable piece of shit

[Wingus Dingus]

20. Oh for god's sake. I thought Biden was too old to run even back in 2020, and I didn't want him to

run again in 2024. Too old, clearly losing steam. But he and his team managed OK till the end of his term. This is just stupid.

[yardwork]

21. Little men desperately trying to be relevant.

[spanone]

23. Tapper can fuck right off.

[Baitball Blogger]

24. LOL! Tapper is more out of it than Biden ever was.

[Alice B.]

26. JFC, Jake. Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen.

I would absolutely throw Tapper into a volcano if it meant going back to the stability of the Biden administration and the competent, ethical, sane people surrounding that president.

[kacekwl]

27. No, trumps crime family corruption

and fascist administration is worse than Watergate by x100. And they don't even try to cover it up so Tapper get busy reporting that it should be easy.

[karynnj]

28. For those of us of age then, the issue re Watergate was NOT Nixon's competence

In fact, even the drinking too much was something learned only as Watergate was exposed. My guess is that the rampant Republican corruption since Watergate has made it harder for people to understand why Watergate was a big deal.

My first question is does he see the coverup of Reagan's genuine incompetence a similar problem? If not, why not? There is more likelihood that major decisions were made without Reagan. No one has yet claimed that any Biden position or decision were made by anyone but him ... as always after getting input from those around him. ( Tapper actually turns the fact that Biden created a very good, smooth running staff into something suspicious.)

Even in the wake of the terrible debate, Biden did a few public press conferences, that he had to know would be parsed for any error or misstatement. His foreign policy press conference was impressive in the nuanced, depth and insight of his comments on complex issues. That and the fact that he was personally involved with many world leaders is really more significant than the fact that he didn't recognize George Clooney! Famous as he is, isn't not recognizing a picture of a former wife AND identifying her as a woman accusing Trump of rape far worse! I would also be more concerned if he didn't recognize Harris, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, Obama, John Kerry or long term Senators .... Which has not been accused. Listen to what John Kerry, who I trust as very honest had to say - https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/john-kerry-defends-biden-and-calls?fbclid=IwY2xjawKioEdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrfNhaK-sTPq8Qk32TJIc6znlRJAKUF3_RX325Ughb859N8r5L_1mCRTewcc_aem_oseTN-d3ZZP_LqGfCofODA

[JohnSJ]

29. Worse than Watergate? If anyone has cognitive decline it is jake tapper. It has to be one of the most

insane statements ever.

This guy is no journalist or reporter, and he should be ignored.

[FalloutShelter]

30. Know what is "Worse than Watergate", Jake?

The CRIMINAL CARTEL currently running this nation into the ground.

So STFU about Joe Biden.

[Rebl2]

41. Exactly!

[SamKnause]

31. Fucking piece of trash.

[marble falls]

32. Seriously, fuck Jake Tapper. I think he's a MAGA plant.

[Johonny]

33. Holy crap, this dude is a moron

Just flush him and move on.

[Bev54]

34. He is trying his damndest to make his book interesting thus the outrageous rhetoric.

Could we all just quit talking about Tapper, he is not worth a minute of our time.

[Rebl2]

43. Book must

really be doing poorly regarding sales.

[librechik]

35. So Tapper is finally dying of both-sider-ism.

He needs to go to a nice nursing home that Congress is about to close.

[karynnj]

47. Not both sides, he is clearly openly hostile to our side

His goal seems to be to smear every well connected Democrat in the Biden years. Without any REAL proof, he starts with assumption that Biden was unable to function as President. He ignores that the SOTU and Biden's press conferences, in addition to public actions as President some with foreign leaders show an elderly President relying on his insight and knowledge of many many complicated issues.

What I see is the media not going out of its way to address that question. A friend posted a John Kerry interview with Christine Ananpour on Facebook that appeared to be only on her pod cast, Twitter and X. As a person close to Biden for over 50 years, certainly his comments should be more newsworthy than letting Jake Tapper spew. https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/john-kerry-defends-biden-and-calls?fbclid=IwY2xjawKioEdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrfNhaK-sTPq8Qk32TJIc6znlRJAKUF3_RX325Ughb859N8r5L_1mCRTewcc_aem_oseTN-d3ZZP_LqGfCofODA

[mcar]

36. Tapper is going down with his sinking ship

What an idiot.

[Blue Owl]

58. Let 'em all drown in their scummy, toxic cesspool of propaganda

I'll gladly toss a brick to any of them trying to stay afloat

[Rebl2]

39. F you

tapper and cnn

[travelingthrulife]

51. Make sure to tell CNN. They have a contact page.

[doc03]

40. A-hole what about the cognative decline of Orange Jesus? Trump is totally

insane to start with.

[Ritabert]

44. Hey Tapper it seems we lived quite nicely through Biden's purported "decline"

Record-setting economy, low unemployment, reduced drug prices, student loan relief, sleeping soundly at night. It's history and we fared quite well. And no I wouldn't buy your book.

[Solly Mack]

45. That's someone who will easily swallow the historical revisions now going on under Trump.

Also -

Mike Johnson says corruption can't be corruption if it is done in the open.

Tapper is telling us the corruption isn't all that bad as long as the person involved is in control of their faculties. Also, apparently, it was only ever an issue of concern when Nixon was drunk - because he wasn't in control of faculties during those times. (since not being in control of your faculties is the real crime in Tapper's mind)


Alrighty then.

[travelingthrulife]

49. Awww...poor Jake... trying to hide the mental illness of Trump.

[Aristus]

50. Benghazi 2.0.

These assholes never change their tune. But they don't have to. This shit always works on the screaming, shit-flinging monkeys.

[Clouds Passing]

52. STFU Jake Tap-dances-around-the-truth

[Paladin]

53. Fuck you where you breathe, Jake Tapper.

On his very worst day, Joe Biden was 100 times better a President than trump.

And Tapper: Don't forget to bring a replacement pair of kneepads with you on your next visit to the White House. The ones you've been using are bound to be worn out by now.

[Walleye]

54. There was no goddamn cover-up. Biden did everything in full view. Tapper could've questioned it then.

I’m really tired of these postmortems. Any 10-year-old can tell you what you should’ve done after everything is over.

[travelingthrulife]

55. CNN has a contact page. Tell CNN what you think about Jake Tapper's phony book

and CNN pushing this nonsense instead of reporting about Trump's insanity.

[Torchlight]

57. I can see why Tapper and his allies want to push this narrative

Trump has been floundering this month, and there's little he can point to as a success. So, the loyalists and useful idiots are trying to shift attention to irrelevant stories in hopes of distracting from the far more serious and erratic behavior of the truly unfit man currently in office.

And a few extra "OMG! The Sky Is Falling" from him certainly helps his pockets and provides solid ground for the apparatchiks.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

59. As long as we are still electing humans there will always be a story to be written about some aspect...

...of their time in office: too young; too old; too smart or dumb; too whatever.... And as long as those stories make money there will always be a Tapper or Wolff to cash the checks.

Given the leaps forward in computing power even among rival countries--see Zuchongzhi 3.0--we are fairly rapidly approaching the day when the cognitive abilities of mere humans in office will be a quaint notion. For that matter, the concept of "human" reporters will be a quaint notion.

How can we possibly see the road ahead when we constantly look in the rearview mirror?

It is modern medicine that has allowed the two oldest political candidates in history to battle it out over the last decade, but it will be modern computing power that will define the last half of this century's political battles. I hope Democrats are preparing for that reality now.

[Scubamatt]

61. So Jake just doubles down on his story

- just like his favorite god-king. Boy, you think he might want to do some journalism on the current occupant - but he wouldn't want to offend him . . . .

[William769]

62. In order to have a cover up, You need a crime. What's the crime?

I forget shit all the time. Am I going to be thrown in jail?. Stupid is as stupid does.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

63. Get over yourself Tapper

Speaking as one who was in high school during the Watergate scandal, Tapper just shot down any credibility he had left.

Sorry your book isn't doing well asshole.

[themaguffin]

64. Oh ffs. how fucking ridiculous of him to say that.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

66. Tapper is spending all of his time pimping this book instead of covering trump

[LetMyPeopleVote]

67. Jon Stewart erupts over CNN's promotion of Jake Tapper's book on Biden's mental health.

Link to tweet

[milestogo]

68. And what, pray tell, is the national security impact of forgetting George Clooney's name?

It's not like he was the VP or something.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

69. Fmr DNC Chair Jaime Harrrison dubbed this book a A BOLD FACED LIE

This book is full of bald face lies

Link to tweet