Victor Davis Hanson: Jake Tapper’s Own Original Sin

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

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CNN’s Jake Tapper helped promulgate one of the greatest cover-ups in American history. Just because he decided to write a book four years later saying everything to the contrary doesn’t change that. Nothing will, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “For the last four years, again and again and again, if anybody questioned the obvious mental decline of Joe Biden—his cognitive difficulties—Jake Tapper, and went on CNN, Jake Tapper tore them apart. “The locus classicus was Lara Trump, who said that he's obviously—as early as 2020—in decline. And he suggested that she was berating him for a childhood stutter, which was absolutely ridiculous. “Why didn't Jake Tapper write this a year ago? Because he knows what would've happened. Somebody in the White House would've called up and said, ‘Tapper, no one from CNN is gonna get a seat at a press conference. There's not gonna be any CNN interview.’ “So, he backed down. And now in a very cowardly fashion, now he comes out and he is blaming the White House cover-up. But what he doesn't tell us is the White House cover-up would have been impossible had not CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NBC, ABC, CBS all conspired with the White House staff to downplay—not just downplay Biden's cognitive decline but attack people.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1… 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/victordavishanson7273… 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	A book came out recently by Jake Tapper of CNN called Original Sin. It's about the cover-up,
0:36.6	decline of Joe Biden. We all have problems with this.
0:39.3	Why did he write a book now? Jake Tapper is a CNN grandee, seven-figure salary, kind of an iconic
0:45.9	figure in this left-wing media outlook. If anybody went on CNN, question the obvious mental
0:52.1	decline of Joe Biden. Jake Tapper tore them apart. The Locust
0:55.8	Classicus was Laura Trump. He suggested that she was berating him for a childhood stutter, which
1:01.6	was absolutely ridiculous. Jake Tapper tore apart anybody who suggested that Joe Biden was
1:07.8	as cognitive in decline as they saw with their own eyes and heard him.
1:12.2	Why didn't Jake Tapper write this a year ago? Because he knows what would have happened.
1:30.5	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.
1:38.4	There's a book that came out recently by Jake Tapper of CNN and Axios Alex Alex Thompson called Original Sin. It's about the cover-up, decline of Joe Biden, and the disastrous choice of him choosing to run in
1:47.3	2024 until he was forcibly ejected from the ticket.
1:52.0	We all have problems with this, and it's essentially Jake Tapper.
1:56.9	It's a co-authored book, but it's Jake Tapper.
1:59.6	Jake Tapper is a CNN grandee, seven-figure salary, kind of an iconic figure in this left-wing media outlet.
2:07.6	But my point is this, for the last four years, again and again and again, if anybody question the obvious mental decline of Joe Biden, his cognitive difficulties,
2:21.3	Jake Tapper, and went on CNN, Jake Tapper tore them apart. The Locus classicist was Laura
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