As Jake Tapper primps and preens while he hawks his new book with Alex Thompson, he is brazenly rewriting his own history of covering up for Joe Biden.
I didn’t know human beings were capable of the level of audacity and fraud that drives Jake Tapper’s book tour: pretending he’s the angry victim of the WH which prevented him from knowing about Biden’s cognitive decline.
Here’s what he did the day the WSJ article came out: pic.twitter.com/ODSoSxnozb
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 14, 2025
Tapper’s biggest whopper came when he brought two Wall Street Journal reporters to his show who wrote about Joe Biden’s decline. He called them heroes and commiserated with them about how poorly they were treated for simply reporting the truth.
CNN host Jake Tapper criticized Democrats for launching a “smear campaign” against two “heroic” Wall Street Journal reporters who reported on former President Joe Biden’s declining health during the 2024 election, calling the attacks “disgraceful” on Wednesday.
Introducing the reporters to his CNN show The Lead, Tapper welcomed “two of the heroic reporters that were covering this intensely during the Biden years, Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes,” who “reported on the decline of Biden’s acuity back in June of last year.”
Tapper then remarked, “I said it last year before the election, and I’ll say it again, the journalism you did was vital, and the smear campaign by Democrats against you two is disgraceful. So thanks for being here.”
Jake Tapper was among those who abused them, though, and didn’t treat them like heroes until he started on his book tour.
Call it stolen valor, if you will. Rubbing up against people he insulted just a few months ago to associate himself with their courage. When it mattered, he smeared their newspaper as a Rupert Murdoch (read: Republican) outlet.
He also claimed that the reporting in the Journal was “false,” which is a pretty definitive rejection of the now-heroic reporting back when it mattered. And since the Wall Street Journal is part of News Corp, you really shouldn’t take anything written there seriously, you know.
The game here is the media and these authors trying to isolate the biggest political cover up in American History down to just like 4 people and a dog around Joe Biden
That’s why they granted anonymity and cooperation to “cabinet secretaries”. Make the blast radius of this as… https://t.co/q7m38WSOAd
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 15, 2025
Except now, you really should. Like Tapper, these “heroic” reporters stood up to the mean, nasty, lying Democrats and their own colleagues to bravely expose Joe Biden’s decline. They did a really great job, just like Jake Tapper, you see.
If only more reporters were like Jake Tapper, the American people would be better informed!
Oh, please.
You do have to admire Tapper’s chutzpah, although the costs of brazenly rewriting history these days are very low. Tapper’s viewers will applaud him, his colleagues will call him brave for admitting mistakes, and the rest of us will roll our eyes because we already know that he is a fraud.
Far from paying a price for his lies, he was able to cash in on the lies back then, and is able to cash in on “exposing” them now because people want the inside scoop.
It’s good to be a member of the establishment.
