NCS’s Jake Tapper is reflecting on what he may’ve executed in a different way along with his protection of former President Joe Biden — and the way it led him to modify up his protection of President Donald Trump’s second time period within the White House.
Appearing on Monday’s episode of the “Pod Save America” podcast, Tapper, who co-wrote the e-book “Original Sin” alongside Axios’ Alex Thompson, admitted that they “didn’t ask as many questions” about Biden’s reported cognitive decline as they may have.
In the e-book, which was launched in May, Tapper and Thompson claimed to uncover particulars about Biden aides’ efforts to cover the politician’s ailing well being from the general public. In May, Biden was additionally identified with prostate most cancers. He is at present undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment.
The subject arose after host and former President Barack Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor requested Tapper, “How do you think the media is handling these growing instances of Trump falling asleep in meetings or maybe seeming like he’s losing a step? Like, when is it a critical mass that it becomes book-worthy?”
“It’s a great question,” Tapper responded earlier than saying of Trump’s well being and cognitive state, “We cover it all the time on my show, all the time.”
He then defined what he now sees as his missteps in his reporting on Biden.
“I think that is, to a large degree, because we saw what happened with Biden, and while we covered it, we didn’t cover it maybe — we didn’t ask as many questions as we should have at the time.”
Tapper added, “I think it is a legitimate question for any president of any age, but particularly anybody who is in the range of being an octogenarian, right?”
The NCS host instructed Vietor he and Thompson “didn’t write a book about Joe Biden’s missteps,” however as a substitute “wrote a book about an unprecedented event happening, which was Joe Biden having such a horrible performance at a presidential debate where his only job was to convince people he was up to the task of being president for another four years.”
Biden dropped his reelection bid in late July 2024 after a highly criticized debate efficiency towards Trump that June, leaving his chosen successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, with mere months to kickstart a marketing campaign to defeat Trump.
Wrapping up his feedback, Tapper pointed to his protection of Trump’s most up-to-date conduct.
“Literally yesterday, I covered that crazy Truth Social rant, when he was mad at The New York Times for covering his aging, and he called it sedition or treasonous.”
“After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,’” Trump wrote in a Dec. 9 Truth Social submit.
Watch Tapper’s look on “Pod Save America” beneath.