Jake Tapper Details Joe Bidens Alleged Ducks in “Original Sin”: NPR

On June 13, 2024, Joe Biden will take part in the G7 World Leaders Summit in Italy on June 13, 2024.

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Jake Tapper from CNN calls his new book a tragedy. Original sin: The decline of President Biden, his cover -up and his catastrophic decision to run againWhat was co -summarized with Alex Thompson with Axios by Tapper describes two Joe Biodes.

“The first is the one that everyone got to know during their vice presidency,” says Tapper. “And the second was a kind of not functioning Joe Biden.

The book describes a president who did not recognize the long -term political allies, lost his train of thought in important conversations and forgot important data, including the death of his son Beau: “We would see some of them in front of the cameras … but we had no idea how bad it was,” says Tapper.

According to Tapper, a source described a president who was supported by adjutants: “A person told us that the presidency was at best a board with a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman of the board.”

The problem became part of a broader conversation during the debate about bidens June 2024 with the then presidential candidate Donald Trump. Biden spoke calmly and tried to articulate why he should be re -elected to the office. Tapper, who moderated the debate, remembers that he asked himself whether he would be able to do every 90 minutes of the event. A month later, Biden withdrew from the presidential race.

If Tapper looked back now, Tapper regrets that he did not treat Biden’s decline more aggressively. “I can indicate times when I asked him, or I asked her … but I knew what I know now, I hardly scratched the surface,” he says. “I have to run more on the discomfort of questions about health because they are so important and are so subjected to Washington.”

On Sunday, BIDEN’s office made an explanation in which he announced that the former president was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer in which metastasized on the bones.

“It is very sad what happens to us when we are lucky enough to grow old. Only a few of us keep our sharpness to death during sleep at the age of 99,” says Tapper. “It is the human condition, and that makes it difficult to report about it. But from the same token we have the right to believe and to expect that a president will be sharp and amazing.”

Interview highlights

The recent cancer diagnosis about the time of his book and bids

My heart goes to him. My prayers are with him. I hope hormone therapy for cancer work. This is part of Joe Biden’s story. … the book was written as a tragedy: here is a person who has gone through so much in his life. So many terrible things that fate has thrown on his life from the start – and that gave him a spirit that so many people love what the type is who gets up after the depressed knock. And it also created a kind of theology about bidges where he could do everything. And that led to the situation in which we are in when they take a step back: Donald Trump, the President, the Republicans who control the house and the Senate.

About the argument that the white house hid bidens decline

Some of the possibilities, as they contributed to hiding their deterioration, started innocent enough. I mean, every employee wants a president, a senator or a governor as much as possible. And if he wants note cards if he wants a teleprompter if he wants to carry out events in the middle of the day instead of early morning or late in the evening, all of this is completely understandable. But then all of these things were really to crutch and infiltrate his presidency in a serious manner to the point that even cabinet meetings, even after the cameras had left, were strongly written.

Then I think that the actual part of the cover-up is not only associated with the fact that it uses a teleprompter with a teleprompter in a teleprompter. There is the fact that they held it from people in 2023. The members of the congress, who went to the Christmas party of the White House in December 2022, did not see him back in the meat until December 2023, and they were shocked by what they saw.

To the aggressive reaction of the bida team to critical reporting

It happened to me when I reported critically about Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. This is only politics in America today. White houses, parties, legions of influencers and bots and activists and journalists who agree with them, and these people, half the time that you don’t even have to give you an order will simply follow someone. It is only par for the course. We quoted it not to justify anything, but only to explain the site on which journalists tried to report something about President Biden. … The White House calls its story a lie or someone from the White House, threatens to record and calls its story a lie that could be really intimidating. … It also serves as a warning for other journalists not to pursue a story because they see how someone else is torn over the coals, and they may not want to experience it.

To the reaction of the democratic party to bidens debate performance

Democrats were shocked. They were only absolutely stunned. And I think there were really two camps. There was the biden camp, that was: “Ok, how do we get from this? How do we crawl back?” Because Joe Biden, as I said, cannot be defeated as a compliment. That is his big attitude. This tragedy will not be defeated by this tragedy. …

You do not have to be a brilliant political consultant to know that the obvious means of remedying what he had just done was to go out and to run 15 interviews and 20 town halls and five press conferences and to simply show people that he was as keen as a hack as they said. And the problem was that he couldn’t, and so his survey ultimately came to the conclusion that there was no way to get out. This was a disaster and it would make itself worse and worse until the election day.

To the democratic reaction to George Clooney’s New York Times OP-EDWhat demanded that bids could die out of the presidential race

They were shocked. After the debate, everyone spoke about it: “Who will say it?” Because very few people made public in front of them, although the voters were clear and many media members were clear, many democratic civil servants went calm. … (The OP-ED) had a great influence because here a type (Clooney) that organized the most successful democratic fundraising campaign in presidential history. Collected thirty million in one night. Here is a beloved figure that would only make enemies. You can only make enemies from something like that. And he came out and he was well received here, then most senators and governors and members of the house.

About the lack of trust in the public in Legacy Media

The news media are in a crisis. … Reporter in general, CNN, NPR, ABC, CBS, we all, people don’t trust. One of the reasons why they don’t trust us is what happens to Joe Biden and his sharpness and the fact that we were quite late in the media in the media. I should (say) that we were too late in the Legacy media because conservative media were not too late. And I think we are in an existential struggle for a free press. Not that it will be taken away, but there is certainly a risk of not thriving as it did. And that only asks us to be as good and professional as possible.

Sam Briger and Thea Chaloner produced and worked on this interview for the show. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan have adjusted it for the web.