My thoughts on Jake Tapper and the efforts to "expose" Joe Biden.

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First, I much prefer MSNBC over CNN, but that has more to do with my familiarity with them rather than the station's personalities. In my view, CNN has tended to be more middle-of-the-road than MSNBC, and that's ok. I just prefer to go another route.

I will say, however, that I'm not entirely against books like Tapper's and Jonathan Allen's, though I think Allen is less trustworthy than Tapper given his previous books like the one he was so quick to get out after Hillary lost.

I don't think Tapper's motives are as bad as some here have made them out to be. Tapper's been a decent journalist in the past. That he may have latched on to a story that paints a less-than-glowing picture of Joe Biden doesn't make him evil unless it's proven he was dead wrong. I'm not sure he was completely right, but given the evidence we clearly saw at that awful debate, I don't think at least some of what he says in his book (which I admittedly have not read) won't be wrong. For those of us who aren't young (and I'm one of those folks), we know that things change as we get older. It's scary, believe me. And we all saw what happened the night of the debate. The question is how much of what we saw was just momentary.

And I think we saw in the last few months of his presidency that Joe 2024 wasn't the same as Joe 2012. But he hadn't lost everything. I loved that moment on The View recently when he made that mic drop statement about Trump.

On the other hand, there is something clearly wrong with Trump even though you'll never get one of his lackeys to agree. He has made it look like he's leading the herd, but in reality, he's been led by the nose ring and it's only going to get worse.