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LisaM

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14. What did Jake Tapper seriously hope to accomplish with this book?

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Fri May 23, 2025, 11:14 AM

May 23

He already sandbagged Biden at the debate right out of the gate with a loaded and slanted question (if you can call it that) while ignoring Trump's apparent insanity, spent the next two weeks leading the charge to drum Biden out of the race, at which he (unfortunately) succeeded, again ignoring Trump's rampages, and then even that wasn't enough, then he demanded to know why the Democrats let our own highly capable Vice President be nominated at our convention.

Having got everything he apparently wanted to settle his petty feud with the Bidens, culminating in this disaster of an administration, he then proceeds to pat himself on the back and assume that we now all want to congratulate him for this spurious book based on a bunch of fabricated evidence.

When Biden is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that most experts agree was very not diagnosed until very recently, what does Tapper do? Does he show empathy, or at the very least, does he tamp down flogging his book?

Why, no! He doubles down. It's all very strange, I am not a huge Jake Tapper fan anyway, and have not been since his treatment of Al Gore in his book about the 2000 election, but I never expected him to go completely off the rails like this.

In the meantime, Project 2025 grinds on, trampling on everything we hold dear in this country.

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