If the presumption was that Jake Tapper’s “Original Sin” book on Joe Biden would net him a huge ratings jump, that didn’t happen. Instead he’s experiencing the Biden Buzzkill.
CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest-rated month in nearly a decade in May despite a whirlwind publicity tour giving him an onslaught of attention.
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“The Lead with Jake Tapper” averaged 525,000 total viewers from April 28 through May 25, shedding 25% of CNN’s audience in its timeslot from the same period last year in the process.
By comparison, Fox News offerings “The Five” and “Special Report with Bret Baier” averaged 3.3 million viewers from April 28 through May 25, trouncing Tapper.
Even MSNBC beat Jake’s show – which is quite a feat!
That said, I’m sure I know the reason why Jake along with Alex Thompson have run straight into the Biden Buzzkill. Their book lays out what we ALL already knew, and yet both of them have spent the last four months gaslighting us. They just…didn’t know and none of their sources were talking. The plethora of excuses they are peddling aren’t holding water and Jake’s ratings slump is just one of the consequences.
He’s on record on his own show slamming Lara Trump in 2020 for pointing out the obvious. Evidently his apology was half-assed.
Jake Tapper called me about two months ago, actually,” Lara, the wife of Eric Trump, recounted on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
“And he said, ‘I have this book coming out. And I know everybody is saying that I should apologize to you. I plan, whenever the book comes out, to go on TV and I will say you were right and I was wrong.’ And I guess to Jake’s credit, he did that.”
Well, yes. That was an insincere attempt at an apology. I mean, seriously Jake. Could your nose be more out of joint?
That said, as more info comes out from the book, his viewers are obviously VERY unhappy with Jake. Some because he’s being mean about their favorite Joe, but others because “Original Sin” is Jake’s way of finally telling the truth, sort of. And we are seeing that he’s still trying to weasel his way out of the mess that he was part of.
SURE, he’s telling us now that this scandal is likely worse than Watergate ever was (which I agree with BTW), but where the hell has he been for the last five years??!!
In 2023 and 2024, there were many things that were unsayable. Perhaps the most unsayable—at least in legacy media circles—was this: The President of the United States was not capable of being president because he was no longer mentally fit.
Those people who did break the taboo—who dared to notice Biden’s countless gaffes and stiff gait, those who recognized the reality of old age—including special counsel Robert Hur—were written off or smeared. Videos of the president—clips of Biden tripping and misspeaking—were rebranded by The New York Times as “cheap fakes.” People were told to disbelieve their eyes and ears.
Bari? Let me tell you something. We knew in 2020 that there was a very, and I mean VERY, big problem with Joe’s cognitive abilities. We knew THEN.
In their book, there’s at least one world leader who had concerns.
I bought a 2nd hand copy of #OriginalSin (so Tapper didn’t get any money) and on page 29 he tells the tale of an unnamed world leader meeting Biden in 2022 and believing he was “clearly” out of it. This is so dangerous, my God… THEY ALL KNEW. GLOBALLY. pic.twitter.com/oSe63kr4do
— P𝕠𝐔𝔫Ⓒ𝓔г (@bloodless_coup) May 27, 2025
He or she (and I have ideas as to whom) aren’t named.
To cap it all off, Jake is insistent that he isn’t in this for the money. They only wanted to write this book.
‘In terms of the left it’s a money grab, I mean that’s not the case. It’s not – this is, I don’t want to get into where my money comes from. You know, CNN is my main job and that’s where my main source of income, by far… Very few people write books to make money,’ he babbled on.
‘You write a book because you want to say something. You want to have a legacy, you want to uncover something, you have a message you want to get out there,’ Tapper stated, adding ‘I don’t think people write books about Joe Biden to make money’ as Thompson smiled.
Which is utter horseshit and we all know it.
It’s fascinating that they are hyping their investigative journalism chops here for the book while claiming they were told obvious fabrications at the time and golly what else could they do. https://t.co/o9vAkupDFS
— Boo (@IzaBooboo) May 29, 2025
The excuses are hip-deep and climbing right now. Especially since both of them also told Bari that they didn’t push harder these last years nor since the summer of 2024 when they presumably started writing the book because they didn’t want people mad at them, and they didn’t want to lose their sources.
He’s not supposed to admit this part out loud. https://t.co/R6zgcEVLhb
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 29, 2025
Keep in mind, not ONE SINGLE SOURCE has been named in their book. NOT ONE.
Matt Taibbi lays it all out. It’s an entertaining and enraging book all in one. Enraging given they literally show everyone that they ALL knew and did nothing.
CNN’s @JakeTapper: Those smeared as right-wing conspiracists were “100% right” about Biden’s mental decline.
“We all should, in retrospect, have been much quicker to label what we saw.
There was a reluctance to say, ‘He seems addled. He seems like maybe he can’t do the job,’… pic.twitter.com/0NX453lwoC
— Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) May 29, 2025
Entertaining given all the rationalization and excuses for covering up a President’s very serious health issues for FIVE YEARS.
Meanwhile the authors never address the monstrous ethical/legal issues that should be at issue in a book whose apparent revelations are about Biden’s incapacity being more extensive than known. Who was making decisions in that case, not just about who should be Run Against Trump (all these people seem to care about), but everything?
The fact is, Jake nor Alex needed any sources. There was boatloads of video evidence, plus Jake’s OWN interviews showing that Joe was a vegetable. But since it didn’t fit their narrative, all of that was ignored. Given that, is it any wonder that Jake’s excuses are moving to the neck deep stage while his ratings continue to tank?
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