Jake Tapper of CNN wrote a book.
This news was not surprising. After all, members of the media write books all the time.
What WAS surprising was the subject of the book:
Actually, using the word “surprised” is putting it lightly.
I was stunned. Gobsmacked. Incredulous. I sat with my mouth open so long my jaw started to hurt.
The book talks about how senior White House aides seriously considered placing Biden in a wheelchair; how they took great pains to make sure he didn’t fall down in public, and how they worked hard to hide the extent of his decline.
And that’s just the senior White House aides. Let’s not forget the person closest to him: his wife, Jill.
Loving wife; loving enabler. She didn’t just help him keep it together—she helped them keep the illusion together.
You just KNOW they stopped for an ice cream treat on the way home from the debate.
And after seeing this book, and pondering what I know about the author, I wondered if, perhaps, there was another “Jake Tapper” somewhere, an author with the same name as the CNN journalist who not only refused to acknowledge the former President’s decline, but berated anyone who did.
Or maybe the publisher got it all mixed up and it was really JAKE from “Sixteen Candles.”
Or Jake, from State Farm.
Or literally anyone else who wasn’t on national TV defending Biden’s mental sharpness for the past four years.
Take the interview with Nikki Haley in September 2023, when Tapper stated, without blinking, that Joe Biden was mentally “sharp.” The dude brushed off concerns, framing the issue as purely about Biden’s physical fitness.
Or this little beauty between Jake Tapper and Laura Trump.
But wait! There’s MORE!
Honestly, ladies, if you want to feel truly loved, you need to find yourself a man who defends you the way Jake Tapper defends Joe Biden. You’ll feel warm all the way down to your… to your… you know…you know…the things.
Fast forward to today and ol’ Jake is dropping bombshells in book form about the very decline he used to pretend didn’t exist.
PICK A LANE, JAKE.
Now, dear readers, in light of this story, we have two choices:
1. Jake Tapper KNEW Biden was slipping and helped cover it up—berating anyone dared point it out
2. Jake Tapper genuinely didn’t see it.
If it’s the first, then Tapper is complicit in one of the most shameful propaganda campaigns in modern political journalism.
If it’s the second…then the question must be asked…WHAT ELSE IS JAKE NOT SEEING?
’Cause Jake Tapper is either complicit or incompetent.
And I’m not sure which is more disqualifying for a journalist.
So many people denied what was happening because people like Jake insisted everything was fine. It’s frightening to see that happen.
Or both.