It was the most poorly kept secret in Washington, DC – a city known all too well for poorly kept secrets. The country’s chief executive, supposed leader of the free world, was neither mentally nor physically up to the job. Before the very eyes of the American people, Joe Biden was deteriorating. It seemed as if every time he appeared in public, Biden said or did something bizarre. There were confusing monologues, sometimes almost unintelligible; there were episodes of paralysis; the impromptu wandering off – clearly in the wrong direction. It all played out on national television, and everyone was told not to believe their own eyes.
The pro-Democrat establishment media was all in on the attempted cover-up of Biden’s undeniable cognitive decline. But once the dust of the 2024 election settled, the journalists who swore Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack” – and that exact phrase was used repeatedly – have made great efforts to distance themselves from what has become the biggest political and media scandal in decades. Indeed, one could argue, the biggest in American history, considering the stakes and the consequences.
But the claims that they were deceived along with everyone else about Biden’s condition haven’t worked for these Fourth Estate elitists. Nobody is buying what they are now trying to sell because the cover-up was happening in real time over just the past five years. The newsreels, the articles, and the social media posts memorialized it all.
The Long and Unmissable Decline of Joe Biden
Hubris has been their undoing. These Biden-friendly journalists – many of whom in 2023 and 2024, and as far back as 2020, were openly scornful of any suggestion that Joe Biden was struggling – can’t help themselves. They now claim that either they saw the decline and reported it honestly, or they were lied to by the Biden White House and were led to believe the incumbent was as fit as a fiddle and was dealing with just a minor stutter.
The one man who unwittingly thrust the whole sordid business into the spotlight, while attempting to promote his upcoming book, is veteran journalist Jake Tapper. The book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, will be released on May 20 and is Tapper’s attempt to portray himself as a fearless reporter exposing a scandal at the very highest levels of government.
The problem is that everyone who paid attention, including Tapper, had been well-acquainted with the cover-up since at least sometime in 2023. Those watching more closely could see the signs even during the early weeks of Biden’s single presidential term, however. Then, going back to Biden’s “Basement campaign” of 2020, it was clear the man was using the pandemic as an excuse to spare himself the exertion of the traditional presidential campaign.
Even as the media painted the discussion around Joe Biden as a right-wing conspiracy theory, the chief executive’s difficulties were on full display. And Tapper himself, despite his current denials, was very much a part of the full-court press – pun intended – to convince everyone that all was well.
On October 18th, 2020, Lara Trump appeared on CNN to assert that Joe Biden, even then, was showing clear signs of what she termed a “cognitive decline.” Tapper was clearly both disgusted and angry, dismissing the claims outright.
As late into the Biden presidency as mid-May of 2025, Tapper, while interviewing Atlantic writer Franklin Foer, asserted that Joe Biden was mentally “sharp.”
In fact, there are multiple examples of Jake Tapper – along with so many of his journalist colleagues – on record dismissing questions about Biden’s mental acuity as “false claims.” They even went as far as suggesting that videos showing the then-president staring off into space or wandering away at inappropriate times during public functions were “deep fakes” or had been deceptively edited.
Democrats and the Media Doth Protest Too Much
The ridiculous lengths to which the White House, working hand-in-hand with a compliant media, made the whole thing so much more egregious.
Rather than simply insisting Joe Biden was in good health, the official narrative was that his physical and mental condition surpassed any previous president. He was portrayed as Superman and Einstein wrapped into one: a man of boundless energy whose aides could barely keep pace and a brilliant statesman with the minutia of every issue at his fingertips. The reality couldn’t have been more different.
Now, and largely thanks to Tapper’s eagerness to promote himself and his book, the floodgates have opened. Several journalists and a few elected Democrats are publicly stating they knew nothing about Biden’s decline. Some of those journalists are blaming the Biden White House for keeping them in the dark. All they really had to do was observe Joe Biden and listen to him speak. One didn’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce something wasn’t right.
This whole affair will have lasting repercussions. Every future president over a certain age will be closely scrutinized for any hint of cognitive deterioration – adding extra pressure to perhaps the world’s most high-pressure job. The Democratic Party may not pull itself out of the shadow of Joe Biden and his largely stage-managed presidency for years. As for the establishment media, already withering on the vine, this whole grand deception may be the final nail in the proverbial coffin. No rational American is unaware of the role journalists like Tapper willingly played in a scandal so big that it has shaken the very foundations of the precious democracy they claim to hold so dear.
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