Jake Tapper concedes ‘conservative media was right’ about Joe Biden's cognitive decline to Megyn Kelly

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: CNN anchor Jake Tapper admitted on 'The Megyn Kelly Show' that “conservative media was right” about Joe Biden’s fading health — and that the “legacy media” needed to do some serious “soul-searching” over how they handled Biden’s presidency.

Former Fox star turned podcaster Megyn Kelly grilled Tapper on his network’s coverage (or lack thereof) leading up to the now-infamous 2024 debate, which Tapper co-moderated, Mediaite reported.

“When we got to leading up to the debate, which you anchored, that June 27 debate, 2024, there was a ton of news leading into that debate and that month, and we looked back at your coverage and found that you ignored it,” she told him.

Megyn Kelly goes scorched earth on Jake Tapper 

Kelly laid out a timeline of what she said Tapper’s team skipped. “Not only did you ignore the Jackie Walorski moment when you had him 13 days later, but you ignored the freeze-up that he had at the Juneteenth celebration. You ignored what happened at the G7 when he wandered off and Giorgia Meloni, prime minister of Italy, had to go find him,” she said.

She continued, “You ignored the freeze-up at the George Clooney LA fundraiser. You didn’t cover it. You only covered it after the debate, after George Clooney wrote his op-ed.”

Kelly then accused CNN of being part of the problem. “Jake, nobody made you do that. Your network at every turn was telling us those were, quote, ‘cheap fakes,’ and you were not combatting that narrative. CNN was actively misleading us on what our very eyes were showing us. That’s the truth, that’s the record,” she declared.

Tapper took the heat. “I will acknowledge that after I was named moderator, co-moderator of the debate, I tried to make sure that my coverage was fairly vanilla, both about Trump and about Biden, because I just wanted to get to the debate,” he said, admitting he was “frankly, surprised that either one of them agreed to have me as a moderator because both sides disliked me so much."

Tapper continued, "But yeah, I remember that moment, and I remember that moment, the glitch at the immigration event, not getting much attention outside of conservative media at all. And Alex and I are here to say that conservative media was right and conservative media was correct, and that there should be a lot of soul-searching, not just among me, but among the legacy media to begin with, all of us, for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently. 100%."

He added, “I’m not here to defend coverage that I’ve already acknowledged I wish I could do differently.”

Jake Tapper on apology to Lara Trump, Dem insiders hiding Biden's condition

In one of the most personal confessions of the interview, Tapper revealed he called up President Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump to apologize.

Kelly asked him flat-out if he had ever apologized for blaming Biden’s issues on his lifelong stutter. Tapper answered, “I already apologized to her. I called her months ago.”

He said their conversation “went well,” and that Lara told him she “never meant to mock Biden’s stutter.”

Tapper told Kelly that he reached out after digging into the research for his book. “After we did the research for this book and I realized how bad his acuity issues were, I called Lara Trump and I said, ‘You were right,’” he said.

But Tapper didn’t just pin this on the press. According to him, the real cover-up went deeper into the heart of the Democratic Party. He and his co-author, Axios reporter Alex Thompson, interviewed over 200 Democratic insiders—and the picture they painted was startling.

“They justified everything in their minds,” Tapper said. “After the election, they were remarkably willing to talk to us.”

According to Tapper, many of these insiders were fully aware of Biden’s cognitive decline — but kept quiet out of fear that Trump would win. Behind the scenes, they described “two Bidens” — one who seemed capable, and another who was clearly not.

Tapper noted that signs of Biden’s decline had been surfacing as far back as 2015, after the death of his son Beau. He said things only got worse after Hunter Biden’s legal troubles came to light, the New York Post reported.

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