May 24, 2025 • 28 mins
🧠 1. Alleged Media Cover-Up of President Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline
The podcast centers first on claims that mainstream media outlets (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN) have deliberately downplayed or ignored signs of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Key points include:
- Book Reference: The commentary references a book titled Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, which reportedly reveals behind-the-scenes concerns about Biden’s health and mental acuity.
- Media Bias Allegations: The author and interviewee (Tim Graham from NewsBusters) argue that the media acted as “teammates” of the Biden administration rather than independent watchdogs, suppressing stories that could damage Biden’s image.
- Double Standards: The piece criticizes CNN and others for allegedly speculating about Donald Trump’s mental fitness while refusing to allow similar discussions about Biden.
- Jake Tapper Criticism: Tapper is accused of hypocrisy—initially suppressing discussion of Biden’s health, then profiting from a book that exposes it. Meghan Kelly’s interview with Tapper is cited as a moment of accountability.
🌍 2. Donald Trump’s Claimed Role in Russia-Ukraine Peace Negotiations
Then we shift to former President Donald Trump’s announcement that he facilitated a potential ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Highlights include:
- Trump’s Statement: Trump claims to have had a productive two-hour call with Vladimir Putin, leading to immediate negotiations toward a ceasefire, potentially hosted at the Vatican.
- Media Reaction: The commentary suggests that mainstream media is reluctant to credit Trump for this diplomatic effort, portraying him instead as stepping back.
- Putin’s Response: Russian state media reportedly described the call as “frank and substantive,” with Putin expressing openness to peace talks.
- Strategic Framing: The narrative emphasizes Trump’s past policies—sanctions, energy dominance, and military strength—as reasons why Putin is now willing to negotiate.
- Critique of Media and Political Establishment: The piece argues that Trump’s leadership is being unfairly dismissed or undermined by the press and political elites.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Biden cover up and the story of the cognitive
decline of Joe Biden number one, but also now what
could be the cover up with his medical issues is
a very big story, and this cover up is one
that is now being covered up by the mainstream media
not wanting you to talk about it, know about it,
hear anything about it at all. ABC, CBS, NBC, and
(00:24):
PBS spent a shocking combined seven minutes on the newest
Biden decline stories. Now this is put together from some
amazing work from NewsBusters, and joining me now to talk
about this is Tim Graham, the executive editor of Newsbuster. Tim,
you guys do an amazing job. We quote your stuff
(00:45):
often here. But this is one of those stories yet
again showing just how biased the media is by refusing
to talk about the cover up from this book original
Sin that's been put out there by axiosin by Jake Tapper,
a reporter, and they're not covering it, and they're certainly
not covering it the other issues as well.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well. Thank you, Ben. I think obviously the revelation started
coming out of this book with these stories, like the
Biden team was considering getting a wheelchair for the President
because he was having such trouble getting around stories like
this that they couldn't you know, they didn't want that
to come out before the election, even after he stepped down,
(01:27):
because the obvious point was he should have just resigned,
you know, when he dropped out of the race, because
if he wasn't able to run for president, why is
he able to be president? But again, everybody wanted to
accommodate the Bidens rather than serve the American people. But yeah,
what's amazing about this is, yeah, we have seven minutes
(01:47):
of coverage and almost all of it is NBC News,
like five minutes plus of the seven is NBC News,
ABC and CBS put together didn't get to a full minutes.
And PBS just didn't want to touch it at all.
So they touch it.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And I think that's one of the things that is
just incredible. If you talk about the book, and it's
called original sin, the original sin of virtually all of
these organizations is that they knew there was a massive
cognitive decline and they were held bent on making sure
that was never ever covered.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And obviously, what the book tells you is that the
Biden team would scream at you if you even asked
the questions, and so they you know, that's where you
say the idea that the national media can portray themselves
as independent bactcheckers holding the government accountable. None of that's
(02:50):
true because they're so easily intimidated by Biden White House pressure.
They weren't independent at all. They were playing. They were
They reported like they were teammates. That's their whole problem.
They're not referees, they're teammates. They want to make sure
the team wins. That's what comes first and foremost. So
(03:12):
they don't care about the truth. They're not fact checkers.
They are spin you know, spin machines, and they spin
whatever messages the Democrats want you to have.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Today, let's talk about the cover up.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Of the cover up, and this goes to Jake Tapper specifically.
It is amazing how rich it is for a guy
like Tapper to write a book now and to say, oh,
I'm going to tell you about the cover up that
I was a part of. You couldn't go on Jake
Tapper's show and talk about this, I want to be
very clear, and he would shut you down in silence
(03:47):
you if you tried to challenge him on it, including
Laura Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We saw that happen in an interview.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But when I was at SANAA as a political commentator,
we were told, when this conversation had begun about the
cognitive clinent of John Biden, we weren't allowed to talk
about it. We're not going to speculate. You're not a doctor,
you're not a neurologist. A list was on on we
will not talk about this, CNN, We're not to bring
it up.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And then now all of a.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Sudden, he's like, hey, let me be a best selling
author and tell you about the cover up that I
was a part of.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah. I mean, this is what's so funny about all
of this, when they say you're not a doctor and
you can't speculate. We sat here at NewsBusters and chronicled
many times many Brian Stelter stories, among others, where they
said Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Donald
(04:38):
Trump needs a twenty fifth Amendment quote unquote solution, he
doesn't have the mental fitness. They would bring on these psychologists, experts,
you know, on the so called reliable Sources show, and
they would say he's not fit to be president. So
(04:58):
the idea that CNN would see, on the one hand,
you can't speculate about Biden's mental health and then endlessly
speculate about Trump's just shows you what you're getting from CNN.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So let's talk about the accountability on this issue. And
I think this is a really important point that needs
to be made. You know, there was speculation now from
a lot of this reporting that's coming out that there
were five people apparently running the United States of America
acting as president of the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Their speculation on who those five may be.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Let me guess, are we seeing this be another blackout
of the media where they're not asking questions even after
what we know in this reporting?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Sure, I mean, I think they are trying to suggest
they've named some names here of the people who were
who were the palace guard around Biden, what they you know,
But a lot of these revelations are anonymously sourced. You know,
it turns upper and Thompson into Bob Woodward. And you know,
(06:03):
that's what's always bothered me about books like this. He's
got inflammatory information in it given to you by it
sources who remain anonymous. And that's because every Democrat or
Republican who's who dishes this out, wants to protect their
own future so that they can work in politics again,
(06:27):
so that you know, the reporters obviously accept this deal
of I'm going to get the bombshells and nobody's really
going to care whose name is on it. Now, there
are people in here who are brave enough to just
state on the record. I saw him. I was concerned.
I mean, but you know, some of them are elected people.
(06:47):
Senator Mark Warner, who is very explicit about I talked
to Biden about the houties or whatever, and I got
no sense that he understood what I was saying. You know,
so put your name should be put on this. And again,
if you were going to be honest about what Biden said,
here's one of the reasons why you want to remain anonymous,
(07:10):
because and Tapper and Thompson do make this point. These
are people who fiercely defended Biden's sharpness at the same
time they were looking at the guy falling apart, and
that doesn't make them look like truth tellers.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So let's go to the takeaways here, and I want
to get your take on this and the work that
you guys do.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I hope everybody will check you out.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Follow you obviously on social media as well, because you
guys put up incredible stuff. We use a lot of
it here and I want people to make sure they
can find it. You guys, if you're online, you can
go to NewsBusters dot org. You can find them on
social media, on Facebook, on acts, etc. Grab it there.
But let's talk about the accountability here with the media.
(07:55):
You look and go back to your you guys analysis
of ABC, CBSNBC. There eve news and more news programs
as well as PBS News Hour. You go back to
May thirteenth through the morning of May nineteenth, y'all found
they spend a grand total of the seven minutes and
sixteen seconds on the reporting from Tapper and his co
author Alex Thompson, Like this is amazing. They don't want
(08:16):
this story to ever show up. They want to be
silent on it. They want to be quiet on it.
They want to move on as quickly as possible. Is
there going to be accountability for the media that is
basically at this point state sponsored media.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, obviously, any public opinion poll that you look at
about do you trust the press? We are at all
time lows. We've been at all time lows for a while,
and it's you can't get an all time low just
because Republicans certainly trust the press. You're at an all
time low because independents don't trust the press. Who trusts
(08:50):
the press the most, the Democrats. What does that tell you?
It tells you that when somebody talks, when Corey Booker
comes out and says we need because we need trustworthy journalism,
what they mean is they can be trusted to help
the Democrats. And so this is another story when obviously
(09:11):
it's not just a problem for the media and trustworthiness. Now,
it's been something that's been going on this entire time
that people are like, why can't you see what every
one of us sees? And you know, we would be
watching something like NBC News at home and the words
from the reporters were all like President Biden did blankety
(09:34):
blank today, and you're watching him walk the way he
walked and make faces and shake hands with the air,
and it's like, even if the reporters don't really notice
it in their words, everybody can see the picture. And
that does undermine the press. It's like, how do you
not notice that this is going on? You know, it's
not the emperor has no clothes. It's more like the
(09:56):
emperor has no you know, brain.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, it's a great point. I hope everybody will check
out what the work you guys are doing. Tell everybody
where they can find it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, we're at NewsBusters dot Org and of course NewsBusters
on Twitter and Facebook, and I'm at Tim J. Grahamgrah Am.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Tim, Always a pleasure, look forward to having you back
here real soon. And congratulations on the work you guys
are doing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
President Trump announced that the Ukraine and Russia war is
going to go into negotiations towards a ceasefire and suggested
that talks could take place at the Vatican. Donald Trump
put it this way on True Social saying quote, I
just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin
(10:42):
of Russia.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I believe it went very well.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Russian Ukraine will immediately start negotiations towards a ceasefire and
more importantly, an end to the war.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The conditions for that will.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only
be because they know details of a negotiation that nobody
else would be aware of. The tone and spirit of
the conversation we're excellent. If it wasn't, I would say
so now rather than later. Russia wants to do large
scale trade with the United States when this catastrophic bloodbath
(11:15):
is over, and I agree. There is a tremendous opportunity
for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Its potential is unlimited.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Likewise, Ukraine can be a great beneficiary on trade in
the process of rebuilding its country. Negotiations between Russia and
Ukraine will begin immediately. I have also informed President Zelensky
of Ukraine, as well as the President of the European Commission,
the President of France, President of Georgia, the President of Italy,
the Chancellor of Germany, and the President of Finland. During
(11:47):
a call with me immediately after the call with President Putin,
the Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that
it would be very interested in hosting the negotiation. So
let the process begin, the President says in his statement,
Now Russian Ukraine again will immediately start negotiations towards the ceasefire.
(12:08):
That is the big moment here that everyone has been
waiting for, and part of what the President's clearly offering is, Hey,
if you guys do this deal and stop this war.
Then we're going to trade with you again, and there's
very good chance that many of the sanctions that are
hurting your economy will disappear as long as you are
a peaceful nation. After Trump talked with Putin, he spoke
(12:29):
with the Ukrainian President Zelenski as well as these other
leaders to let them know what they had talked about,
because it was, in fact, a very long conversation. Now,
one other thing about this story that I want you
to know is what the President actually had to say
in his own words. I want you to take a
listen to this from President Trump talking about what happened
(12:49):
on this call.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Well, I want to thank everybody. We just spent two
and a half hours talking to Vladimir Putin, and I
think some progress has been made. It's a terrible sit
going on over there. Five thousand young people every single
week of being killed, so hopefully we did something. We
also spoke to the heads of most of the European
(13:12):
nations and we're trying to get that whole thing wrapped up.
What a shame that it ever started in the first place.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Now, of course, the media is trying to find some
way to say that Donald Trump is bailing on these
negotiations after having a more than two hour conversation with
Vadimir Putin, Right, because you can't give credit for real
leadership if you're in the media. So the press asked
the president this question about are you guys now taking
a quote back seat and walking away?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Listen to the present response.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I'm called with President Kuton today. You'd mentioned that the
Pope would like to take a role potentially and immediating
these tasks.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Does that mean that you.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
As is taking a step back from No.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
No, No, I think it would be great to have it.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
At the Vatican.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Maybe you would have some extra significance so that it
was discussed yesterday, so I thought, and people told me
that they'd be on there to do it, I would
imagine they would be. So No, I think it would
be maybe helpful. This tremendous bitterness anger, and I think
maybe that could help some of that anger. So having
(14:17):
it that the Vatican would be in Rome would be
a very I think it would be a great idea.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Now, even the media is kind of shocked by the
President's leadership on this one. And I say kind of shocked,
and I roll my eyes because they shouldn't be. This
is part of what the President of the United States
of America said he was going to do. He said,
if you elect him, he's going to stop these wars.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
No one should.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Have doubted him when he said I Am going to
stop these wars, and CNN says Russia State News Agency
is also reporting that this was a very effective call.
I'm sure that was hard for them to admit.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Take a listen, We're told that the phone call between
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended. That's
according to a White House official. I'm going to get
straight to our chief International Security correspondent, Nick Peyton Walsh, Nick,
what are you learning?
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Yeah, this is according to Russian States News Agency tasks
who are giving us the first read out based on
comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who emerged from
this phone call that he took it a music school
in the southern resort town of Tsachi, to say that
it lasted for two hours. He described it as frank
and substantive. He noted that he said that Trump noted
that Russia stands for a peaceful settlement of the crisis
(15:36):
in Ukraine. He said, Russia is in favor of stopping
the fighting, but it's unnecessary to develop the most effective
paths to peace. He also said that a ceasefire is
possible upon reaching the corresponding agreements, and that indeed a
memorandum between Russia and Ukraine may address that particular point.
He said also that the meeting in Istanbul we saw
(15:57):
last week on Friday, low level Russia sent there, suggests
that quote, they're generally on the right track. Al He
said he was very appreciative of a conversation with Trump
and indeed that Russia is ready to work on a
memorandum of a future peace agreement, and that Russia and
Ukraine must find compromises that suit both.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Sides, that suit both sides.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So you step back from this for just a second,
and let's just go to what Donald Trump said, Vote
for me and I'm going to bring peace, not world
War three. Right, That's what Democrats always wanted to say.
Vote for me and I'm going to bring peace. That
is exactly what he's offering here. And the last Trump administration,
(16:40):
by the way, hit Russia where it hurt. Sanctions, energy dominance,
and direct military action when necessary. That's what's gotten them
to the table now because Putin remembers, he also knows
that Trump isn't bluffing. That's why he didn't move on
Ukraine during Trump's first term. This is exactly why the
(17:01):
president United States of America now has the upper hand.
This has also talked about today on TV as well,
just reminding people the truth about the past.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
The one strategic mistake that mister Putin has made was
another brazen attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure. I think
that that awakens some in the White House. And it's
the United States that holds holds all the tools here,
both economic and military. The last thing Vladimir Putin wants
(17:33):
to do is a return to the first Trump administration,
when his economy was broken by sanctions and a low
price for oil. He pegged his economy to one hundred
dollars a barrel. When Trump finally unleashes the energy power
of the United States, we're going to see oil come
back down again. And Putin will also know that Trump
(17:57):
can turn off the spigots to his banks and isolate
him in that regard.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And do you think, I mean you just have to
stop there, and you hear this Vladimir Putin knows what
happens when you screw with Donald Trump. He also knows
what happened the last time he was president, and it
absolutely did dismantle, straight up dismantle his economy. Why do
you think he's come to the table now, It's because
(18:23):
of you go back to Ronald Reagan, power through strength,
and that's exactly what he's doing right now. Jake Tapper
sat down with Meghan Kelly to talk about this new book,
and let me just tell you, it was hysterical to
watch him squirm when Meghan Kelly nailed him to the
(18:46):
wall about his participation and complicity in the Biden cover up.
The same guy now making money off of a book
about the big lie, right, this massive lie that was told,
And it's like, dude, you are literally a part of it.
You shut down people when they brought up the cognitive
decline of Joe Biden, and you're now trying to act
(19:08):
like you're a truth teller after the guy's already out
of office. I'm going to play for you longer segments
because I want you to hear this conversation and I
want you to understand something about Jake, And I think
This is the part that you that I do want
you to have context for as you're listening. Jake Tapper
is extremely sanctimonious. When I worked with him for seven
years at CNN, he thinks he's some sort of God's
(19:30):
gift to journalism, that he's above reproach, he's better than
everybody else, And when he gets nailed on these issues,
he's like, well, I've already I've already asked for I've
already apologized for this, I've already talked to Laura Trump
for the way that I talked to her on my show,
and I'm just here trying to get out the facts
now with my book Original Sins like it is just.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Like like I could, I could throw.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Up over the self righteousness in this interview, but I
want you to hear it because this is how the
media gets away with it. They rewrite history of what
they actually did for years as a state sponsored media
individual and they sold you any lie. The White House
seed them to sell, and then when the house comes
crashing down, they're like, let's do real reporting now. So
(20:13):
with that being set, take a listener, Megan Kelly Jake
Tapper talking on this issue.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Jake the criticism has been that you're complaining about a
cover up about Joe Biden's mental acuity that failed that
right wing pundits saw, the right wing in general saw,
that independent media saw and reported on, and that was
no mystery even to left wing and so called mainstream
reporters who were not fooled but chose willful blindness instead
(20:43):
of honest reporting, and that you were part of it.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
How do you respond.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
It's a tough and fair question.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
I would say that Alex and I after election day
interviewed more than two hundred people, two hundred mostly Democratic insiders,
and all these interviews where almost all of these interviews
were after the election, and they justified to themselves what
they had done in terms of misrepresenting how the president
(21:16):
was not just to me and Alex and other reporters,
but also just to each other and to the world
and to Democrats into the cabinet, etc. By saying that
there was this existential threat of Donald Trump and only
Joe Biden could be Donald Trump, and that justified everything
in their minds. After that existential threat was over, because
the election was over and Donald Trump one they were.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
We found Alex and myself.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Remarkably willing to talk to us, either off the record
or on background, or in some cases on the record
about what they saw. One of the things that emerged
was that there were two Bidens. One was the fine Biden, serviceable, adequate,
and the other one was a non functioning Biden. One
we saw the night of the debate, and that's the
(22:02):
one we saw some clips of here and there that
you just showed. And that non functioning Biden, the one
that lost his train of thought in a significant way,
not in the way just that every human loses their
train of thought, but in a way that shows that
he's having trouble articulating his very views.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
And the one who forgot the name.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Of close aids, who was not able to come up
with George Clooney's name, didn't seem to recognize him. All
that sort of thing that non functioning Biden was, according
to our reporting, showed up as far back as twenty fifteen,
after the death of Bow, where one top aid said
that that tragedy, the loss of Bow, was like watching
(22:45):
somebody pour water on sand. That was the effect on
his psyche. And there were other moments twenty seventeen, twenty
eighteen you hear some her report. One of the reasons
he came to that conclusion was because of the recordings
they heard of Joe Biden in twenty seventeen talking to
his ghostwriter, in which he was similarly inclined. Obviously, in
twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, there were other moments like that.
(23:05):
Most of his campaign staff and others would say that
he's you look, he's seventy eight, he's seventy nine, he
has senior moments, but he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. Well,
he wasn't fine, And throughout his presidency, that non functioning
Biden would show up more and more and more, and
he was worse and worse and worse, really deteriorating tremendously.
(23:29):
The next time there was a really horrible family incident,
which was when Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart in
the summer of twenty twenty three, and then obviously in
June he was convicted, and the thought the fear of
losing his son, not to jail, but maybe to another,
to a relapse, to an overdose, to a suicide, who knows,
was a very real fear, and the threat of losing
(23:52):
a third child really just diminished him tremendously, according to
top ads. So all of which is to say that
this was a deterioration, this was a progression. And look,
knowing what I know now, obviously I feel tremendous humility
about my coverage that Laura Trump interviewed, for example, et cetera.
(24:16):
She saw something, She saw something that I did not
see at the time, one hundred percent, and I own that.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I did ask Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
By the way, just pause there.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
This is the sanctimonious Jake Tapper that is just exhausting
to me. He's like, she saw something that at the
time that I did not see. What are you joking?
Everybody saw it, You just didn't want to believe it.
In fact, I don't. There's one thing about Jake Tapper
that I want to be queer about. I actually think
Jake Tapper is extremely smart. I think he's a really
(24:49):
good at lying to you about this one. And the
idea that he didn't see the Cogniti decline, it would
mean that he's an incredibly stupid person, because only a
dumb person would not be able to see it. He
saw it, but he didn't want Donald Trump to win,
and so he decided I'm going to look the other way.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
And now he's like, well, she saw something that I
didn't see. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Like, like, give me a break, Like that is total crap.
Jake Tapper, by the way, way too sanctimonious to actually
believe this, and.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
This is his out right. Well, it wasn't that I
was covering it up.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It's just that I didn't see it, right, it was
just that I didn't notice it.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Part No, you noticed it. I don't believe that you didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I think you're lying to us, and now you're trying
to profit and make a and sell books off of
a lie that you were a part of.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Keep listening.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
To be transparent about his health records.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
In an interview in twenty twenty, I did ask him
about the fact that voters then he was thought that he.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
He was not transparent at all.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
No, he promised you that he would be transparent about
his health records.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And then he wasn't.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
And when you sat with him again at all, including
one including one month after the Jackie Willorski thing, you
didn't ask him about it. You didn't follow up on
the fact that he was falling up the stairs, that
he was losing his train of thought regularly, that he
was slurring, that he was incomprehensible, that he was getting
lost on the White House lawn. You sat right across
from him, and you asked none of that, notwithstanding the
(26:18):
fact that he had promised you he would be fully
transparent about his health issues.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
By the way, this is Megan Kelly, which he just
says exactly what I was saying, like, you had an
opportunity after you saw this, and you still didn't do
jack crap about it. You saw it all and you
chose not to do it, and then listen to this
BS answer from Jake.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
That's true.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
But I did ask him about his age and the
fact that the American people had concluded that even though
he said whenever anybody brought up the subject of his age,
watched me, and I said, yes, they're watching you, and
they are concerned that.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
You get too old for this job.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
You know as well as I do.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
That.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
There's a way of you can say, hey, there's this
poll on your age, or you could say you just
forgot that Jackie Willerski was dead.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You asked where she.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Was moments after watching a videotape tribute to her. You
lowered the flags at the White House after she died.
This happened thirteen days before you sat with him. There
is a way of pressing a man like that on
the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and
to the audience.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And you didn't do it, and you didn't do it,
and she's exactly right. And that's exactly why Jake Tapper
deserves this type of criticism for again now making money
off of a book that he is saying, Oh, well,
I didn't see it beforehand. You didn't see it beforehand, Like,
what the hell are you talking about? You didn't see
it before No, I just didn't see it. I just
didn't see it at all. I had no idea this
(27:46):
was going on. And she saw it before I saw it,
referring to Laura Trump, and so you know, I called
and apologized to her. So everything's good. Now, Everything's totally
fine now. Nothing to see here, nothing wrong here? Are
you kidding? Make sure you share this podcast with your
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and we appreciate you listening every day.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
We'll see you back here tomorrow.
The Biden cover up and the story of the cognitive
decline of Joe Biden number one, but also now what
could be the cover up with his medical issues is
a very big story, and this cover up is one
that is now being covered up by the mainstream media
not wanting you to talk about it, know about it,
hear anything about it at all. ABC, CBS, NBC, and
(00:24):
PBS spent a shocking combined seven minutes on the newest
Biden decline stories. Now this is put together from some
amazing work from NewsBusters, and joining me now to talk
about this is Tim Graham, the executive editor of Newsbuster. Tim,
you guys do an amazing job. We quote your stuff
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often here. But this is one of those stories yet
again showing just how biased the media is by refusing
to talk about the cover up from this book original
Sin that's been put out there by axiosin by Jake Tapper,
a reporter, and they're not covering it, and they're certainly
not covering it the other issues as well.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well. Thank you, Ben. I think obviously the revelation started
coming out of this book with these stories, like the
Biden team was considering getting a wheelchair for the President
because he was having such trouble getting around stories like
this that they couldn't you know, they didn't want that
to come out before the election, even after he stepped down,
(01:27):
because the obvious point was he should have just resigned,
you know, when he dropped out of the race, because
if he wasn't able to run for president, why is
he able to be president? But again, everybody wanted to
accommodate the Bidens rather than serve the American people. But yeah,
what's amazing about this is, yeah, we have seven minutes
(01:47):
of coverage and almost all of it is NBC News,
like five minutes plus of the seven is NBC News,
ABC and CBS put together didn't get to a full minutes.
And PBS just didn't want to touch it at all.
So they touch it.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And I think that's one of the things that is
just incredible. If you talk about the book, and it's
called original sin, the original sin of virtually all of
these organizations is that they knew there was a massive
cognitive decline and they were held bent on making sure
that was never ever covered.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And obviously, what the book tells you is that the
Biden team would scream at you if you even asked
the questions, and so they you know, that's where you
say the idea that the national media can portray themselves
as independent bactcheckers holding the government accountable. None of that's
(02:50):
true because they're so easily intimidated by Biden White House pressure.
They weren't independent at all. They were playing. They were
They reported like they were teammates. That's their whole problem.
They're not referees, they're teammates. They want to make sure
the team wins. That's what comes first and foremost. So
(03:12):
they don't care about the truth. They're not fact checkers.
They are spin you know, spin machines, and they spin
whatever messages the Democrats want you to have.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Today, let's talk about the cover up.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Of the cover up, and this goes to Jake Tapper specifically.
It is amazing how rich it is for a guy
like Tapper to write a book now and to say, oh,
I'm going to tell you about the cover up that
I was a part of. You couldn't go on Jake
Tapper's show and talk about this, I want to be
very clear, and he would shut you down in silence
(03:47):
you if you tried to challenge him on it, including
Laura Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We saw that happen in an interview.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But when I was at SANAA as a political commentator,
we were told, when this conversation had begun about the
cognitive clinent of John Biden, we weren't allowed to talk
about it. We're not going to speculate. You're not a doctor,
you're not a neurologist. A list was on on we
will not talk about this, CNN, We're not to bring
it up.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And then now all of a.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Sudden, he's like, hey, let me be a best selling
author and tell you about the cover up that I
was a part of.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah. I mean, this is what's so funny about all
of this, when they say you're not a doctor and
you can't speculate. We sat here at NewsBusters and chronicled
many times many Brian Stelter stories, among others, where they
said Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Donald
(04:38):
Trump needs a twenty fifth Amendment quote unquote solution, he
doesn't have the mental fitness. They would bring on these psychologists, experts,
you know, on the so called reliable Sources show, and
they would say he's not fit to be president. So
(04:58):
the idea that CNN would see, on the one hand,
you can't speculate about Biden's mental health and then endlessly
speculate about Trump's just shows you what you're getting from CNN.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So let's talk about the accountability on this issue. And
I think this is a really important point that needs
to be made. You know, there was speculation now from
a lot of this reporting that's coming out that there
were five people apparently running the United States of America
acting as president of the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Their speculation on who those five may be.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Let me guess, are we seeing this be another blackout
of the media where they're not asking questions even after
what we know in this reporting?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Sure, I mean, I think they are trying to suggest
they've named some names here of the people who were
who were the palace guard around Biden, what they you know,
But a lot of these revelations are anonymously sourced. You know,
it turns upper and Thompson into Bob Woodward. And you know,
(06:03):
that's what's always bothered me about books like this. He's
got inflammatory information in it given to you by it
sources who remain anonymous. And that's because every Democrat or
Republican who's who dishes this out, wants to protect their
own future so that they can work in politics again,
(06:27):
so that you know, the reporters obviously accept this deal
of I'm going to get the bombshells and nobody's really
going to care whose name is on it. Now, there
are people in here who are brave enough to just
state on the record. I saw him. I was concerned.
I mean, but you know, some of them are elected people.
(06:47):
Senator Mark Warner, who is very explicit about I talked
to Biden about the houties or whatever, and I got
no sense that he understood what I was saying. You know,
so put your name should be put on this. And again,
if you were going to be honest about what Biden said,
here's one of the reasons why you want to remain anonymous,
(07:10):
because and Tapper and Thompson do make this point. These
are people who fiercely defended Biden's sharpness at the same
time they were looking at the guy falling apart, and
that doesn't make them look like truth tellers.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So let's go to the takeaways here, and I want
to get your take on this and the work that
you guys do.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I hope everybody will check you out.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Follow you obviously on social media as well, because you
guys put up incredible stuff. We use a lot of
it here and I want people to make sure they
can find it. You guys, if you're online, you can
go to NewsBusters dot org. You can find them on
social media, on Facebook, on acts, etc. Grab it there.
But let's talk about the accountability here with the media.
(07:55):
You look and go back to your you guys analysis
of ABC, CBSNBC. There eve news and more news programs
as well as PBS News Hour. You go back to
May thirteenth through the morning of May nineteenth, y'all found
they spend a grand total of the seven minutes and
sixteen seconds on the reporting from Tapper and his co
author Alex Thompson, Like this is amazing. They don't want
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this story to ever show up. They want to be
silent on it. They want to be quiet on it.
They want to move on as quickly as possible. Is
there going to be accountability for the media that is
basically at this point state sponsored media.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, obviously, any public opinion poll that you look at
about do you trust the press? We are at all
time lows. We've been at all time lows for a while,
and it's you can't get an all time low just
because Republicans certainly trust the press. You're at an all
time low because independents don't trust the press. Who trusts
(08:50):
the press the most, the Democrats. What does that tell you?
It tells you that when somebody talks, when Corey Booker
comes out and says we need because we need trustworthy journalism,
what they mean is they can be trusted to help
the Democrats. And so this is another story when obviously
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it's not just a problem for the media and trustworthiness. Now,
it's been something that's been going on this entire time
that people are like, why can't you see what every
one of us sees? And you know, we would be
watching something like NBC News at home and the words
from the reporters were all like President Biden did blankety
(09:34):
blank today, and you're watching him walk the way he
walked and make faces and shake hands with the air,
and it's like, even if the reporters don't really notice
it in their words, everybody can see the picture. And
that does undermine the press. It's like, how do you
not notice that this is going on? You know, it's
not the emperor has no clothes. It's more like the
(09:56):
emperor has no you know, brain.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, it's a great point. I hope everybody will check
out what the work you guys are doing. Tell everybody
where they can find it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, we're at NewsBusters dot Org and of course NewsBusters
on Twitter and Facebook, and I'm at Tim J. Grahamgrah Am.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Tim, Always a pleasure, look forward to having you back
here real soon. And congratulations on the work you guys
are doing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
President Trump announced that the Ukraine and Russia war is
going to go into negotiations towards a ceasefire and suggested
that talks could take place at the Vatican. Donald Trump
put it this way on True Social saying quote, I
just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin
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of Russia.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I believe it went very well.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Russian Ukraine will immediately start negotiations towards a ceasefire and
more importantly, an end to the war.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The conditions for that will.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only
be because they know details of a negotiation that nobody
else would be aware of. The tone and spirit of
the conversation we're excellent. If it wasn't, I would say
so now rather than later. Russia wants to do large
scale trade with the United States when this catastrophic bloodbath
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is over, and I agree. There is a tremendous opportunity
for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Its potential is unlimited.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Likewise, Ukraine can be a great beneficiary on trade in
the process of rebuilding its country. Negotiations between Russia and
Ukraine will begin immediately. I have also informed President Zelensky
of Ukraine, as well as the President of the European Commission,
the President of France, President of Georgia, the President of Italy,
the Chancellor of Germany, and the President of Finland. During
(11:47):
a call with me immediately after the call with President Putin,
the Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that
it would be very interested in hosting the negotiation. So
let the process begin, the President says in his statement,
Now Russian Ukraine again will immediately start negotiations towards the ceasefire.
(12:08):
That is the big moment here that everyone has been
waiting for, and part of what the President's clearly offering is, Hey,
if you guys do this deal and stop this war.
Then we're going to trade with you again, and there's
very good chance that many of the sanctions that are
hurting your economy will disappear as long as you are
a peaceful nation. After Trump talked with Putin, he spoke
(12:29):
with the Ukrainian President Zelenski as well as these other
leaders to let them know what they had talked about,
because it was, in fact, a very long conversation. Now,
one other thing about this story that I want you
to know is what the President actually had to say
in his own words. I want you to take a
listen to this from President Trump talking about what happened
(12:49):
on this call.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Well, I want to thank everybody. We just spent two
and a half hours talking to Vladimir Putin, and I
think some progress has been made. It's a terrible sit
going on over there. Five thousand young people every single
week of being killed, so hopefully we did something. We
also spoke to the heads of most of the European
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nations and we're trying to get that whole thing wrapped up.
What a shame that it ever started in the first place.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Now, of course, the media is trying to find some
way to say that Donald Trump is bailing on these
negotiations after having a more than two hour conversation with
Vadimir Putin, Right, because you can't give credit for real
leadership if you're in the media. So the press asked
the president this question about are you guys now taking
a quote back seat and walking away?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Listen to the present response.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I'm called with President Kuton today. You'd mentioned that the
Pope would like to take a role potentially and immediating
these tasks.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Does that mean that you.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
As is taking a step back from No.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
No, No, I think it would be great to have it.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
At the Vatican.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Maybe you would have some extra significance so that it
was discussed yesterday, so I thought, and people told me
that they'd be on there to do it, I would
imagine they would be. So No, I think it would
be maybe helpful. This tremendous bitterness anger, and I think
maybe that could help some of that anger. So having
(14:17):
it that the Vatican would be in Rome would be
a very I think it would be a great idea.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Now, even the media is kind of shocked by the
President's leadership on this one. And I say kind of shocked,
and I roll my eyes because they shouldn't be. This
is part of what the President of the United States
of America said he was going to do. He said,
if you elect him, he's going to stop these wars.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
No one should.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Have doubted him when he said I Am going to
stop these wars, and CNN says Russia State News Agency
is also reporting that this was a very effective call.
I'm sure that was hard for them to admit.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Take a listen, We're told that the phone call between
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended. That's
according to a White House official. I'm going to get
straight to our chief International Security correspondent, Nick Peyton Walsh, Nick,
what are you learning?
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Yeah, this is according to Russian States News Agency tasks
who are giving us the first read out based on
comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who emerged from
this phone call that he took it a music school
in the southern resort town of Tsachi, to say that
it lasted for two hours. He described it as frank
and substantive. He noted that he said that Trump noted
that Russia stands for a peaceful settlement of the crisis
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in Ukraine. He said, Russia is in favor of stopping
the fighting, but it's unnecessary to develop the most effective
paths to peace. He also said that a ceasefire is
possible upon reaching the corresponding agreements, and that indeed a
memorandum between Russia and Ukraine may address that particular point.
He said also that the meeting in Istanbul we saw
(15:57):
last week on Friday, low level Russia sent there, suggests
that quote, they're generally on the right track. Al He
said he was very appreciative of a conversation with Trump
and indeed that Russia is ready to work on a
memorandum of a future peace agreement, and that Russia and
Ukraine must find compromises that suit both.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Sides, that suit both sides.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So you step back from this for just a second,
and let's just go to what Donald Trump said, Vote
for me and I'm going to bring peace, not world
War three. Right, That's what Democrats always wanted to say.
Vote for me and I'm going to bring peace. That
is exactly what he's offering here. And the last Trump administration,
(16:40):
by the way, hit Russia where it hurt. Sanctions, energy dominance,
and direct military action when necessary. That's what's gotten them
to the table now because Putin remembers, he also knows
that Trump isn't bluffing. That's why he didn't move on
Ukraine during Trump's first term. This is exactly why the
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president United States of America now has the upper hand.
This has also talked about today on TV as well,
just reminding people the truth about the past.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
The one strategic mistake that mister Putin has made was
another brazen attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure. I think
that that awakens some in the White House. And it's
the United States that holds holds all the tools here,
both economic and military. The last thing Vladimir Putin wants
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to do is a return to the first Trump administration,
when his economy was broken by sanctions and a low
price for oil. He pegged his economy to one hundred
dollars a barrel. When Trump finally unleashes the energy power
of the United States, we're going to see oil come
back down again. And Putin will also know that Trump
(17:57):
can turn off the spigots to his banks and isolate
him in that regard.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And do you think, I mean you just have to
stop there, and you hear this Vladimir Putin knows what
happens when you screw with Donald Trump. He also knows
what happened the last time he was president, and it
absolutely did dismantle, straight up dismantle his economy. Why do
you think he's come to the table now, It's because
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of you go back to Ronald Reagan, power through strength,
and that's exactly what he's doing right now. Jake Tapper
sat down with Meghan Kelly to talk about this new book,
and let me just tell you, it was hysterical to
watch him squirm when Meghan Kelly nailed him to the
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wall about his participation and complicity in the Biden cover up.
The same guy now making money off of a book
about the big lie, right, this massive lie that was told,
And it's like, dude, you are literally a part of it.
You shut down people when they brought up the cognitive
decline of Joe Biden, and you're now trying to act
(19:08):
like you're a truth teller after the guy's already out
of office. I'm going to play for you longer segments
because I want you to hear this conversation and I
want you to understand something about Jake, And I think
This is the part that you that I do want
you to have context for as you're listening. Jake Tapper
is extremely sanctimonious. When I worked with him for seven
years at CNN, he thinks he's some sort of God's
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gift to journalism, that he's above reproach, he's better than
everybody else, And when he gets nailed on these issues,
he's like, well, I've already I've already asked for I've
already apologized for this, I've already talked to Laura Trump
for the way that I talked to her on my show,
and I'm just here trying to get out the facts
now with my book Original Sins like it is just.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Like like I could, I could throw.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Up over the self righteousness in this interview, but I
want you to hear it because this is how the
media gets away with it. They rewrite history of what
they actually did for years as a state sponsored media
individual and they sold you any lie. The White House
seed them to sell, and then when the house comes
crashing down, they're like, let's do real reporting now. So
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with that being set, take a listener, Megan Kelly Jake
Tapper talking on this issue.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Jake the criticism has been that you're complaining about a
cover up about Joe Biden's mental acuity that failed that
right wing pundits saw, the right wing in general saw,
that independent media saw and reported on, and that was
no mystery even to left wing and so called mainstream
reporters who were not fooled but chose willful blindness instead
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of honest reporting, and that you were part of it.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
How do you respond.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
It's a tough and fair question.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
I would say that Alex and I after election day
interviewed more than two hundred people, two hundred mostly Democratic insiders,
and all these interviews where almost all of these interviews
were after the election, and they justified to themselves what
they had done in terms of misrepresenting how the president
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was not just to me and Alex and other reporters,
but also just to each other and to the world
and to Democrats into the cabinet, etc. By saying that
there was this existential threat of Donald Trump and only
Joe Biden could be Donald Trump, and that justified everything
in their minds. After that existential threat was over, because
the election was over and Donald Trump one they were.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
We found Alex and myself.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Remarkably willing to talk to us, either off the record
or on background, or in some cases on the record
about what they saw. One of the things that emerged
was that there were two Bidens. One was the fine Biden, serviceable, adequate,
and the other one was a non functioning Biden. One
we saw the night of the debate, and that's the
(22:02):
one we saw some clips of here and there that
you just showed. And that non functioning Biden, the one
that lost his train of thought in a significant way,
not in the way just that every human loses their
train of thought, but in a way that shows that
he's having trouble articulating his very views.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
And the one who forgot the name.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Of close aids, who was not able to come up
with George Clooney's name, didn't seem to recognize him. All
that sort of thing that non functioning Biden was, according
to our reporting, showed up as far back as twenty fifteen,
after the death of Bow, where one top aid said
that that tragedy, the loss of Bow, was like watching
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somebody pour water on sand. That was the effect on
his psyche. And there were other moments twenty seventeen, twenty
eighteen you hear some her report. One of the reasons
he came to that conclusion was because of the recordings
they heard of Joe Biden in twenty seventeen talking to
his ghostwriter, in which he was similarly inclined. Obviously, in
twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, there were other moments like that.
(23:05):
Most of his campaign staff and others would say that
he's you look, he's seventy eight, he's seventy nine, he
has senior moments, but he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. Well,
he wasn't fine, And throughout his presidency, that non functioning
Biden would show up more and more and more, and
he was worse and worse and worse, really deteriorating tremendously.
(23:29):
The next time there was a really horrible family incident,
which was when Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart in
the summer of twenty twenty three, and then obviously in
June he was convicted, and the thought the fear of
losing his son, not to jail, but maybe to another,
to a relapse, to an overdose, to a suicide, who knows,
was a very real fear, and the threat of losing
(23:52):
a third child really just diminished him tremendously, according to
top ads. So all of which is to say that
this was a deterioration, this was a progression. And look,
knowing what I know now, obviously I feel tremendous humility
about my coverage that Laura Trump interviewed, for example, et cetera.
(24:16):
She saw something, She saw something that I did not
see at the time, one hundred percent, and I own that.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I did ask Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
By the way, just pause there.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
This is the sanctimonious Jake Tapper that is just exhausting
to me. He's like, she saw something that at the
time that I did not see. What are you joking?
Everybody saw it, You just didn't want to believe it.
In fact, I don't. There's one thing about Jake Tapper
that I want to be queer about. I actually think
Jake Tapper is extremely smart. I think he's a really
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good at lying to you about this one. And the
idea that he didn't see the Cogniti decline, it would
mean that he's an incredibly stupid person, because only a
dumb person would not be able to see it. He
saw it, but he didn't want Donald Trump to win,
and so he decided I'm going to look the other way.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
And now he's like, well, she saw something that I
didn't see. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Like, like, give me a break, Like that is total crap.
Jake Tapper, by the way, way too sanctimonious to actually
believe this, and.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
This is his out right. Well, it wasn't that I
was covering it up.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It's just that I didn't see it, right, it was
just that I didn't notice it.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Part No, you noticed it. I don't believe that you didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I think you're lying to us, and now you're trying
to profit and make a and sell books off of
a lie that you were a part of.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Keep listening.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
To be transparent about his health records.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
In an interview in twenty twenty, I did ask him
about the fact that voters then he was thought that he.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
He was not transparent at all.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
No, he promised you that he would be transparent about
his health records.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And then he wasn't.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
And when you sat with him again at all, including
one including one month after the Jackie Willorski thing, you
didn't ask him about it. You didn't follow up on
the fact that he was falling up the stairs, that
he was losing his train of thought regularly, that he
was slurring, that he was incomprehensible, that he was getting
lost on the White House lawn. You sat right across
from him, and you asked none of that, notwithstanding the
(26:18):
fact that he had promised you he would be fully
transparent about his health issues.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
By the way, this is Megan Kelly, which he just
says exactly what I was saying, like, you had an
opportunity after you saw this, and you still didn't do
jack crap about it. You saw it all and you
chose not to do it, and then listen to this
BS answer from Jake.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
That's true.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
But I did ask him about his age and the
fact that the American people had concluded that even though
he said whenever anybody brought up the subject of his age,
watched me, and I said, yes, they're watching you, and
they are concerned that.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
You get too old for this job.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
You know as well as I do.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
That.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
There's a way of you can say, hey, there's this
poll on your age, or you could say you just
forgot that Jackie Willerski was dead.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You asked where she.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Was moments after watching a videotape tribute to her. You
lowered the flags at the White House after she died.
This happened thirteen days before you sat with him. There
is a way of pressing a man like that on
the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and
to the audience.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And you didn't do it, and you didn't do it,
and she's exactly right. And that's exactly why Jake Tapper
deserves this type of criticism for again now making money
off of a book that he is saying, Oh, well,
I didn't see it beforehand. You didn't see it beforehand, Like,
what the hell are you talking about? You didn't see
it before No, I just didn't see it. I just
didn't see it at all. I had no idea this
(27:46):
was going on. And she saw it before I saw it,
referring to Laura Trump, and so you know, I called
and apologized to her. So everything's good. Now, Everything's totally
fine now. Nothing to see here, nothing wrong here? Are
you kidding? Make sure you share this podcast with your
family and friends, put up on social media wherever you are,
and we appreciate you listening every day.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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