CNN host Jake Tapper mentioned throughout an interview with Piers Morgan on Monday that the cover-up of former President Biden’s decline was “worse” than the Watergate scandal throughout Richard Nixon’s presidency.
“‘Joe Biden is not Richard Nixon, and the hiding and cover-up of his deterioration is not Watergate.’ I am not entirely sure I agree, Jake with that conclusion,” Morgan mentioned, quoting the e book, throughout his present, “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson launched a e book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which particulars the cover-up of Biden’s decline and his option to run for re-election.
“The next line is, ‘It is an entirely separate scandal’. It is a scandal. It is without question, and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways. Because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn’t drinking, so the idea that, we don’t mean to exonerate,” Tapper mentioned.
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Jake Tapper mentioned throughout an interview with Piers Morgan that the cover-up of former President Biden’s decline was worse than Watergate. (Left: (Picture by ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP by way of Getty Pictures), Proper: (Picture by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Pictures), Proper: (Picture by Jason Mendez/Getty Pictures))
“The only reason that we have the Watergate thing in there is because we quote Archibald Cox, who was a Watergate investigator, talking about how powerful the presidency is and how presidents get surrounded by people who have a vested interest in keeping that president propped up,” the CNN host added. “So that’s the only reason we invoke Watergate is just to make clear like, it’s not Watergate this is an entirely separate scandal, maybe even worse.”
The Watergate scandal is named the Nixon administration’s cover-up of a break-in on the Democratic Nationwide Committee headquarters through the 1972 election. The scandal was investigated and in the end led to Nixon resigning in 1974.
Morgan agreed that the cover-up of Biden’s decline was worse than the Watergate scandal, earlier than urgent Tapper on his protection of the previous president.
Morgan requested Tapper if he felt he owed the American folks an apology “for slightly dropping the ball with this.” Morgan additionally performed a clip of Tapper’s 2020 interview with Lara Trump, who labored for President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign on the time, spotlighting some of his previous protection of the previous president’s decline.

Richard Nixon provides the thumbs up after his resignation because the thirty seventh President of the US. (Gene Forte/Consolidated Information Footage/Getty Pictures)
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“I feel like I owe the American people an acknowledgment that I wish I had covered the story better,” Tapper responded. “Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she [Lara Trump] was right and I was wrong. I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline.”
Tapper mentioned he would attempt to do higher with regard to his protection through the dialogue.
The CNN host acknowledged feeling “humility” when confronted about his previous protection, however has nonetheless been criticized for the e book about Biden.
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MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski insisted throughout an interview with Tapper and Thompson earlier this month that they lined the dialogue about Biden’s age in real-time, taking concern with the authors’ allegation of a cover-up.
“Nobody agrees with me, but we debated this, and we covered this, and my point is that we did this in real time. There is definitely new information in this book, great reporting, but I want to understand why you’re using words like cover up, which insinuates a crime or something. Was there a crime committed? Because we’re in an environment where we are covering an administration that is actually in office right now, that is pushing the limits of the law in every way,” Brzezinski mentioned.
Liberal co-host of “The View” Pleasure Behar complained throughout their present that Tapper was “hawking” the e book on CNN, demanding to know when the CNN host would write a e book about Trump’s decline.