It can be argued that no one in the mainstream media took a deeper fall during Trump 2.0 than CNN’s Jake Tapper.
After losing his book deal, Tapper turned to Alex Thompson’s book, which read like a conspiracy theory or one of Tapper’s fictional novels about what he believed was Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and alleged cover-up during the 2024 campaign.
CNN has endlessly hyped the book, which had strong pre-sales then the book fell like a stone into the sea, because Biden did not have cognitive decline but instead suffered from undiagnosed cancer.
The spectacle tarnished Tapper in the eyes of many viewers, but the same CNN anchor who believed Biden was in cognitive decline because of the way the former president answered questions turned around and conducted an interview with the current president, who is showing signs of decline via text message.
The hypocrisy of this double standard did not go unnoticed by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who said, in part:
It has become more difficult to reach Donald Trump on Sunday morning, but the desperation remains and I suspect it is only growing. And so yesterday morning CNN presented an interview with CNN that they can’t even prove was Donald Trump. They called it Breaking News. They called it quote, an exclusive new interview with President Trump. That’s what they called it. Before the interviewer said this, the president answered my questions by text about his hopes for this emerging deal, which you gave him the questions in writing.
So instead of letting Trump hide in a phone conversation where we can at least know it’s him talking, Donald Trump is now allowed to hide behind the black screen of texting. We actually have no idea who sent the answers in that interview. CNN cannot prove that Donald Trump actually did that texting.
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When the history of Donald Trump’s mental decline is written, that interview yesterday will undoubtedly be a turning point in the Donald Trump White House, addressing the challenge of Donald Trump trying to answer questions during this period of apparent mental decline for Donald Trump.
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