CNN anchor Jake Tapper revealed that he had not extensively covered Joe Biden’s cognitive decline when he interviewed the former president in previous years, at a time when there was speculation regarding Biden’s mental acuity.

This disclosure came during a probing discussion with Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show, in which Tapper was discussing his recently published exposé, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.

‘Knowing what I know now, obviously I feel tremendous humility about my coverage,’ Tapper told Kelly.

During the conversation with the podcast host and former Fox News anchor, Tapper was questioned about why he did not press Biden on his cognitive abilities in a 2022 interview, particularly after the president had made a comment referring to a deceased colleague from just a week prior.

‘There is a way of pressing a man like that on the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and to the audience and you didn’t do it,” Kelly said.

‘That’s correct. I didn’t,’ Tapper confessed. ‘And like I said, I feel humility about my coverage.

Kelly also brought up a now-infamous 2020 exchange between Tapper and Lara Trump, during which Tapper shamed her for mentioning Biden’s ‘cognitive decline.’

‘That Lara Trump interview, for example, she saw something that I did not see at the time 100 percent and I own that,’ Tapper explained of the tense interview with Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law.

Megyn Kelly clashed with CNN star Jake Tapper on Tuesday after he admitted being complicit in the cover-up over Joe Biden’s declining abilities 

In it, Tapper had shamed her for bringing up Biden’s tendency to stutter during a conversation about the then-candidate’s ‘cognitive decline’.

‘I did ask Joe Biden to be transparent about his health records in an interview in 2020,’ Tapper told Kelly this time around.

‘But then he wasn’t,’ Kelly quipped.

‘No, he wasn’t transparent at all,’ Tapper quickly admitted – before pointing to other instances of reporting he framed as more above board.

‘He promised you that he would be transparent about his health records and then he wasn’t,’ Kelly first said, before bringing up how Tapper had a second sitdown with Biden in October 2022.

‘And when you sat with him again… 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,’ Kelly recounted. ‘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,’ Kelly reiterated. ‘[He] promised you he would be fully transparent about his health issues.’

‘That Laura Trump interview for example, she saw some she saw something that I did not see at the time 100 percent and I own that,’ Tapper said, referring to the tense interview with Trump’s daughter-in-law aired on State of the Union in 2020

‘That’s true,’ Tapper  said, before a brief pause. 

He went on to tout how he had asked the then-president about his age and the fact that Americans were ‘concerned’ about it – a tidbit Kelly seemingly deemed as soft.

Kelly responded by questioning Tapper’s desire to confront the former president about his infirmity.

Devastatingly, Tapper also spoke of how there were two Joe Bidens during his time in office – a ‘functioning Biden’ and a ‘non-functioning Biden.  

The CNN host said the collapse of a plea deal offered to Biden’s son Hunter over gun charges in 2023 dramatically worsened the 82 year-old’s mental state. 

Tapper’s new book Original Sin, written with fellow journalist Alex Thompson, details the industrial scale of the cover-up surrounding Biden’s health.

The ruse was finally blown during a disastrous presidential debate against Donald Trump in June 2024, which later saw Biden drop out of the race.  

On Sunday, the former president announced he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

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