{"id":129,"date":"2025-05-22T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:37:19","slug":"cnns-jake-tapper-on-his-failures-in-covering-bidens-mental-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on his failures in covering Biden&#8217;s mental state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to like Tapper when he was on ABC and would appear on Imus.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#39;s on the interview tour as he promotes the book he co-authored&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Original-Sin-President-Cover-Up-Disastrous\/dp\/B0DTYKCJC9\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3Q1CAFYQZ5KPX&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xZGdTibr_D7c10gTasTVFAi8yAyq3NY0tRuh_sb-J-db2A87WZBciCNcKKYdYZTm_ZqZbUQl3VFZmizgUbMpQLE6kFMDTdbxr7fU6m8iYkvtgGDCKloVrjajjkcDOsFCUxgQFCNADO7PWU2h98Q11twvJZb2ChpSY0Mn2swMtdvBydAZ0yvb_1cHvOaELmmROQbMiwWoiicfJJNKCFY6f3uHxd2jcU4pfp898_T9zqo.e8KZiwGzZdiNitRkPKe_N105MvGubC9yWw8MmQpbMaM&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=original+sin&amp;qid=1747887231&amp;sprefix=origia%2Caps%2C842&amp;sr=8-2\">Original Sin. President Biden&#39;s Decline, the Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s four minutes of part of an interview with Meghan Kelly. Best line about one minute in; Biden&#39;s aides justified to themselves &quot;the existential threat of Donald Trump and only Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump, and that justified everything.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Tapper has admitted he made mistakes and says he had apologized to Lara Trump for saying &quot;you&#39;re not&#0160; doctor&quot; when on his CNN show she pointed out Biden&#39;s metal deficiencies several years ago. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2lBTx2TfomY?si=sPTXy8O9fSB6gqux\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to like Tapper when he was on ABC and would appear on Imus. Now he&#39;s on the interview tour as he promotes the book he co-authored&#0160; Original Sin. President Biden&#39;s Decline, the Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Here&#39;s four minutes of part of an interview with Meghan Kelly. Best line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}