{"id":2435531,"date":"2025-05-16T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/panicking-tapper-hires-crisis-pr-firm-as-everyone-sees-through-i-didnt-know-biden-was-debilitated-lie\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:57:18","slug":"panicking-tapper-hires-crisis-pr-firm-as-everyone-sees-through-i-didnt-know-biden-was-debilitated-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/panicking-tapper-hires-crisis-pr-firm-as-everyone-sees-through-i-didnt-know-biden-was-debilitated-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Panicking Tapper Hires Crisis PR Firm as Everyone Sees Through &#8216;I Didn&#8217;t Know Biden Was Debilitated&#8217; Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpanicking-tapper-hires-crisis-pr-firm-as-everyone-sees-through-i-didnt-know-biden-was-debilitated-lie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2435531&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article discusses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hutchinson-blasts-gop-for-supporting-trump-who-almost-destroyed-democracy-in-one-day\/\" title=\"Hutchinson criticizes GOP for backing Trump, who &#039;nearly shattered democracy in a single day&#039;\">upcoming book titled<\/a> &#8220;Original Sin: President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run again,&#8221; authored by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. The author expresses skepticism about the book&#8217;s intent, suggesting it will likely be a reflection of various insiders&#8217; self-serving narratives rather than a genuine exploration of the issues surrounding Biden&#8217;s presidency. The article highlights the contrasting journalistic approaches of tapper and Thompson, with Tapper frequently enough defending Biden&#8217;s fitness for office while Thompson reported on concerns about Biden&#8217;s mental state.<\/p>\n<p>there is criticism of the authors for hiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-lawyers-tell-meena-harris-to-stop-using-aunt-kamala-to-build-brand-report\/\" title=\"White House Lawyers Tell Meena Harris To Stop Using Aunt Kamala To Build Brand: Report\">public relations firm<\/a><\/a> to manage the book&#8217;s release, implying a need to mitigate fallout from perhaps negative revelations. The piece questions the motivations behind the timing of the book&#8217;s release and whether it serves to address past media complicity in portraying Biden favorably. The author asserts that rather than providing new insights, the book is expected to reiterate known concerns about Biden&#8217;s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>the article conveys a sense of disillusionment regarding the media&#8217;s role in covering Biden&#8217;s presidency and the motivations behind the forthcoming book, suggesting it serves more as a means for the authors to profit from the narrative than to provide accountability or openness.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the book &ldquo;Original Sin: President Biden&rsquo;s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again&rdquo; was announced, I was intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t because I imagined it would shed real light on the cover-up of Biden&rsquo;s decline; the cover-up was done poorly enough that anyone with eyes could see it, and most of these books tumbling out now about how it all fell apart are simply &ldquo;Rashomon&rdquo; exercises in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/former-administration-thrown-bus-bidens-decline-call-cover-simplistic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">various Biden insiders telling their self-exculpatory version(s)<\/a> of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did I believe it might identify what the &ldquo;original sin&rdquo; in Biden&rsquo;s campaign(s) was. Was it choosing to run again? Choosing to run the first time? Obama choosing Hillary over Joe in 2016, which would have meant that &mdash; had he been elected &mdash; he would have been on his way out of the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fact-check-video-show-biden-falling-asleep-event-maui-wildfire-survivors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling asleep<\/a>, drooling, in his vichyssoise &mdash; not seeking another term in it? Or Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/16\/us\/politics\/biden-obama-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picking<\/a> Biden over Tim Kaine as running mate in the first place, thus saving Uncle Joe&rsquo;s political fortunes by the deus ex machina of the vice presidency?<\/p>\n<p>None of that really matters now, and as Biden has exited stage far left, it&rsquo;s clear the original sin was probably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-compulsive-liar-fits-definition-keeps-telling-fake-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electing him to the Senate in 1972<\/a>. No, what interested me was the two authors of the book: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>To say that this was an odd couple on a book about Biden&rsquo;s decline was an understatement; it was a little bit like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/737382-we-were-somewhere-around-barstow-on-the-edge-of-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter S. Thompson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FyVz0D2vA5Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ned Flanders<\/a> going on a road trip together.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Jake Tapper, as CNN viewers and those delayed in airports over the past four years (that Venn diagram is pretty much just a single circle at this point) know, spent the Biden presidency pretending the 46th commander in chief was fit as a fiddle. Meanwhile, over at Axios, Thompson was one of the few people in Washington actually looking into Biden&rsquo;s mental state &mdash; and finding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/months-ago-reported-biden-outsmarted-aides-now-clear-cant-even-keep-world-leaders-straight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-insider-says-gotta-lock-joe-bidens-latest-miscue-threatens-hurt-harris-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alarming<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/months-ago-reported-biden-outsmarted-aides-now-clear-cant-even-keep-world-leaders-straight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, then, &ldquo;Original Sin&rdquo; could be an interesting dichotomous study in how most of the media willfully got it wrong while Thompson and a few others were actually reporting the story that was right in front of our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>From what we&rsquo;ve seen from excerpts &mdash; and from a new report indicating that a public relations firm is being dispatched to handle the book&rsquo;s rollout &mdash; it will not be that. Instead, expect more of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/no-george-clooney-dont-get-retcon-joe-bidens-legacy-make-look-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Now the Truth Can Be Told&trade;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s problematic enough that, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/biden-cover-up-authors-hire-crisis-pr-amid-maga-meltdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Beast<\/a>, the authors &ldquo;have hired a crisis PR expert as they drop revelations of Joe Biden&rsquo;s cognitive decline from their new book.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To promote the book, which is out May 20, the two have signed up crisis communications expert Risa Heller and her firm Heller Co. to help navigate the rollout, according to an article on Breaker Media, co-written by former Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Cartwright,&rdquo; the outlet reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Heller has represented controversial figures across media and politics, including former CNN chief Jeff Zucker, convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was ousted twice from public life over sexting young women and a minor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Why on earth, given one of the hottest nonfiction titles of the summer reading months, would you hire a&nbsp;<em>crisis<\/em> PR firm to help navigate things?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SUPERCUT!<\/p>\n<p>Before profiting off the media conspiracy to hide Biden&rsquo;s decline, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper?\">@jaketapper<\/a> helped run it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j5m7h4JVA3\">pic.twitter.com\/j5m7h4JVA3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1895052586249531798?\">February 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, that&rsquo;s why. But don&rsquo;t worry &mdash; he looks back on this sort of thing &ldquo;with humility.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&ldquo;Now Biden&rsquo;s out, CNN anchor admits he covered up ex-Pres&rsquo; &lsquo;non-functioning&rsquo; side<\/p>\n<p>Jake Tapper says criticism aimed at him &lsquo;FAIR&rsquo; adding: &lsquo;I look back on it with humility&rsquo;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YEosYH5F4T\">pic.twitter.com\/YEosYH5F4T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; D. Scott @eclipsethis2003 (@eclipsethis2003) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eclipsethis2003\/status\/1923027526437179685?\">May 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As, I&rsquo;m sure, did Elizabeth Holmes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fbi-ignored-weiner-probe-for-a-month-to-prioritize-russia-witch-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Weiner<\/a>, and Jeff Zucker. And, to be fair, it&rsquo;s not like Tapper was the only one who was doing this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joe Biden is sharp as a tact supercut.<\/p>\n<p>None of these people should still have a job on TV. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nd856DI1yi\">pic.twitter.com\/nd856DI1yi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefiyantlyFree\/status\/1923000949921976741?\">May 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Tapper is taking the most heat from this; as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/14\/media\/jake-tapper-slammed-for-rewriting-history-to-cash-in-on-book-covering-bidens-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> reported, even Fox News was lambasting him, with John Roberts and Joe Concha saying Tapper and his network &ldquo;tied itself in knots in trying to either dismiss this or cover it up&rdquo; during Biden&rsquo;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is just patently insulting that Jake Tapper is trying to rewrite history while lining his own pockets in the process. He was very much a part of the media cabal who defended Biden,&rdquo; Concha said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He blamed a stutter. He called Lara Trump a conspiracy theorist when she appeared on his show for simply pointing out the obvious that Joe Biden had no business being anywhere near the Oval Office years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But now that Joe Biden is expendable in the eyes of Democrats, and you know the books are going to come, the leaks are going to come, it&rsquo;s all a CYA for everybody involved,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Now people are trying to profit off of it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And make no mistake, from what we&rsquo;ve seen from the book, there&rsquo;s no mea culpa; it&rsquo;s out May 20, but the excerpts basically say what we all knew. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/13\/biden-book-wheelchair-2024-campaign-original-sin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> aides noting Biden may need a wheelchair for a second term; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-political-scene\/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another<\/a> said he didn&rsquo;t even recognize who George Clooney was at that infamous fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&rsquo;t know this was probably what the situation was, you are blind and deaf and probably not American. Or Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>An advance book review from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/13\/books\/review\/originial-sin-jake-tapper-alex-thompson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> is hardly any more exonerative:<\/p>\n<p><em>Tapper is an anchor for CNN (and also served as a moderator for the presidential debate); Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios. In an authors&rsquo; note, they explain that they interviewed approximately 200 people, including high-level insiders, &ldquo;some of whom may never acknowledge speaking to us but all of whom know the truth within these pages.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The result is a damning, step-by-step account of how the people closest to a stubborn, aging president enabled his quixotic resolve to run for a second term. The authors trace the deluge of trouble that flowed from Biden&rsquo;s original sin: the sidelining of Vice President Kamala Harris; the attacks on journalists (like Thompson) who deigned to report on worries about Biden&rsquo;s apparent fatigue and mental state; an American public lacking clear communication from the president and left to twist in the wind. &ldquo;It was an abomination,&rdquo; one source told the authors. &ldquo;He stole an election from the Democratic Party; he stole it from the American people.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Um, Jake: You are aware those people could have been talked to&nbsp;<em>before<\/em> the election, right? Either one?<\/p>\n<p>They may not have been as forthcoming, because of course they wouldn&rsquo;t have been. That&rsquo;s why it&rsquo;s called &ldquo;journalism.&rdquo; Now, it&rsquo;s just people minimizing their role in the trainwreck &mdash; and naturally, they&rsquo;re going to be chatty about it.<\/p>\n<p>As pundit Caitlin Sinclair very recently noted in a (too accurate) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DJpxdGAt_Ij\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viral video<\/a>, Washington, D.C., is not a town so much as &ldquo;a LinkedIn page with a drinking problem.&rdquo; Of course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-called-trump-concede-reaction-stunned-staff-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these Biden functionaries<\/a> are willing to tell Tapper and Thompson <em>everything<\/em> &mdash; and much more &ndash;now, and probably not in entirely accurate terms, because they&rsquo;re going about securing their next job &mdash; and even if someone is an &ldquo;anonymous source,&rdquo; it&rsquo;s probably not hard to guess who it is.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jake-tapper-wants-praise-exposing-biden-cover-look-just-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tapper<\/a> pressing them four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/was-kamalas-ancestor-a-notorious-slave-owner-this-resurfaced-family-discovery-could-ruin-her\/\" title=\"Was Kamala&#039;s Ancestor a Notorious Slave Owner? This Resurfaced Family Discovery Could Ruin Her\">years ago &#038;mdash<\/a>; like his co-author was busy doing, and getting ostracized for it because few journalists dared to do it &mdash; would have gone a long way to ending this charade. Not only did he do the opposite, he had the audacity to pretend he did as much as Thompson to expose this mess when he created it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Oh what a tangled web we weave, Mr. Tapper , when first we practice to &hellip; cover up for a sham of a president, so the only politician to stand for the American people in two generations doesn&rsquo;t win the election &hellip; and then get around to &ldquo;deceive.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Forget crisis PR. 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My curiosity wasn&#8217;t due to expectations of uncovering new insights about Biden&#8217;s decline; the cover-up was so poorly executed that it was evident to anyone paying attention. Many recent books discussing how things unraveled are merely various insiders&#8217; self-serving narratives. I also didn&#8217;t think it would pinpoint what the &#8220;original sin&#8221; of Biden&#8217;s campaigns might be-whether it was his decision to run again, his initial candidacy, or Obama&#8217;s choice of Hillary over him in 2016. Ultimately, none of that is particularly relevant now; with Biden having exited stage left, it&#8217;s likely that the original sin was electing him to the Senate back in 1972. What truly piqued my interest were the authors: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Their collaboration on a book about Biden&#8217;s decline seemed like an unusual pairing-akin to Hunter S. Thompson and Ned Flanders embarking on a road trip together.<\/p>\n<p>As CNN viewers and those stuck in airports over recent years know well, Tapper spent much of Biden&#8217;s presidency portraying him as completely fit for office. In contrast, Thompson at Axios stood out as one of the few journalists investigating concerns regarding Biden&#8217;s mental fitness-and discovering troubling findings along the way. Thus, &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; could have been an intriguing exploration contrasting how most media outlets misrepresented reality while Thompson reported on what was plainly visible.<\/p>\n<p>However, based on excerpts we&#8217;ve seen-and reports indicating a public relations firm has been hired for its launch-it seems this won&#8217;t be the case after all. Instead of revealing truths about Biden&#8217;s cognitive issues as expected from such a significant title set for release on May 20th (and which has already prompted hiring crisis PR expert Risa Heller), we can anticipate more attempts at damage control rather than genuine revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Why would they need crisis PR for such a highly anticipated nonfiction book? The answer lies in their past actions during Biden&#8217;s presidency when they downplayed serious concerns regarding his capabilities-a fact Tapper himself later acknowledged with some humility amidst criticism aimed at him for previously covering up these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being part of this media narrative defending an increasingly unfit president during his time in office-where even Fox News criticized them-Tapper now appears ready to profit from revelations he once helped suppress while attempting to rewrite history without taking full responsibility for his role in enabling this situation.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming book promises no real accountability; instead, it reiterates what many already suspected: aides noted potential mobility issues for another term and instances where he failed to recognize prominent figures like George Clooney at events-all information readily apparent if one had been paying attention throughout these years.<\/p>\n<p>In their authors&#8217; note detailing interviews with around 200 sources-including high-ranking insiders-the result is described as a damning account illustrating how those closest enabled an aging president&#8217;s misguided ambition while sidelining others like Vice President Kamala Harris amid widespread public confusion stemming from unclear communication from leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately though-as pundits have pointed out-the willingness now shown by former aides eager to share their stories reflects not just regret but also self-preservation instincts within Washington D.C., where reputations are often salvaged through selective storytelling after political fallout occurs post-election cycles rather than proactive journalism addressing critical issues beforehand when they mattered most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jake-Tapper-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[55387,37534,55388],"class_list":["post-2435531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-crisis-pr","tag-media-response","tag-political-spin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jake-Tapper-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435535,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435531\/revisions\/2435535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}