Atlantic editor doesn't 'understand' the narrative that media covered for Biden's health

The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic says helium doesn’t "understand" the "narrative" that the media covered for erstwhile President Joe Biden’s health. 

"I don’t recognize however this communicative is developed that the media was covering for Biden," The Atlantic exertion Jeffrey Goldberg said Friday successful an interrogation helium did with CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson’s publication pursuing the merchandise of their book, "Original Sin." The publication looks into the efforts made by apical Biden aides and allies to fell the information astir Biden’s intelligence and carnal health, providing a depiction of a president who was routinely confused and disorientated during his term.

"I deliberation what mightiness beryllium going connected present is the deficiency of knowing astir however reporting works," Goldberg said. "In bid to beryllium that he's diminished, you person to person people, sources wrong telling you this."

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President Joe Biden listens during a sojourn to the D.C. Emergency Operations Center, connected Tuesday, July 2, successful Washington.  (AP/Evan Vucci)

In response, Tapper pointed to the sources helium and Thompson spoke to. 

"What Alex and I person been capable to do, which is aft the election, each those Democrats, we talked to much than 200 sources for this book, astir each of them Democrats, astir each of them aft the election, who were telling america what was truly going connected down the scenes," Tapper said. "And the anecdotes and the concerns that we bring guardant successful this publication is investigative journalism, and that is antithetic from observational punditry."

Thompson besides mentioned the bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal astir however immoderate lawmakers began questioning Biden's health, which was met with fierce disapproval by Democrats and immoderate successful the media. 

"I mean, look astatine the absorption to The Wall Street Journal communicative successful June of 2024, conscionable weeks earlier the debate," Thompson said. "There are a batch of reporters that benignant of threw shadiness astatine that story. There was not arsenic overmuch solidarity." 

Thompson, arsenic good arsenic Goldberg, pointed to The Atlantic's June 2022 story titled, "Why Biden Shouldn’t Run successful 2024," which said, "Biden is by nary means the much eloquent quality helium was successful his younger days. It tin beryllium achy to ticker him springiness prepared speeches. His code tin beryllium tentative, and definite sentences tin go hopscotching journeys. His aides successful the country look visibly tense astatine times."

Goldberg said helium is not trying to marque "excuses" for the media, nevertheless said journalists tin lone bash truthful overmuch aft they constitute a story. 

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The Atlantic editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg said that "Well, you tin pb radical to stories that you write, but you can't marque them work them."  ( Jemal Countess/Getty Images for The Atlantic)

"Well, you tin pb radical to stories that you write, but you can't marque them work them," Goldberg said. "And I deliberation that's portion of the issue. I'm not trying to marque excuses. You've been precise forthright astir your critique of softness connected the portion of the media connected the question."

He besides asked Tapper astir the sentiment from Biden’s unit that helium would beryllium physically capable to instrumentality connected exigency situations astatine 3:00 A.M. 

"We person furniture secretaries successful the book, arsenic you know, who are telling america that by 2024, they bash not person religion that Joe Biden could beryllium relied upon for that 3:00 A.M. telephone call, and that's chilling, chilling," Tapper said. 

Tapper besides said President Donald Trump is not being transparent astir his wellness records. 

"I don't deliberation that the property should screen immoderate president going forward, A, without demanding afloat and implicit transparency astir wellness records, which we're not getting from Trump," Tapper said. "We inactive don't cognize wherefore helium went to Walter Reed successful 2019. And I deliberation that we request to beryllium skeptical of everything that we are told by radical successful power."

Axios writer Alex Thompson said, "there are tens of millions of radical successful this state that would similar Joe Biden astatine 100 years aged to Donald Trump close now."  (Getty Images)

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