Tapper reveals Democratic sources felt no remorse about covering up Biden decline in interviews for book

CNN's Jake Tapper said during an interrogation connected Wednesday that the galore Democratic sources helium and Axios newsman Alex Thompson spoke to for their publication astir the cover-up of erstwhile President Biden's diminution didn't truly explicit remorse oregon acknowledgment that a mistake was made. 

"We ne'er got idiosyncratic that said, 'We should ne'er person done this. I can't judge we did it. In retrospect, it was a mistake. How arrogant we were.' I mean, even, you know, determination was a apical aide, a apical White House aide, who acknowledged to maine that this abbreviated 10-15 infinitesimal interrogation I did with Joe Biden successful October 2022, helium would not person been susceptible of doing successful October 2023. That admittance was stunning to me," Tapper said connected The Stephen A. Smith Show.

He added, "But it did not travel with, 'And we truly made a mistake, we shouldn't person tally him. What an error. I can't judge we did it.' It didn't travel with that." 

Tapper and Thompson's book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," has elaborate the magnitude astatine which those closest to Biden went to screen up his limitations portion successful office. The CNN big precocious said the ungraded whitethorn adjacent be "worse than Watergate."

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CNN's Jake Tapper told Stephen A. Smith connected Wednesday that nary of the Democratic sources helium spoke to for the publication felt remorse astir moving erstwhile President Biden for reelection. (Left: (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images))

Tapper said the sources said they thought Biden was the lone 1 who could bushed President Donald Trump.

"So I deliberation that astir were telling the truth, arsenic overmuch arsenic they had travel to presumption with it themselves, but I bash wonderment wherever they volition beryllium successful a year, due to the fact that I heard from 1 of the people, 1 of the Democrats I interviewed for the book, who gave maine 1 of the astir shocking revelations, and I checked in, ‘How are you doing,’ they're upset. But they're not upset astatine us, not upset astatine the book, they're conscionable upset that it happened and present everybody is talking astir it," helium added. "They're inactive moving done a lot."

Thompson besides discussed 1 interrogation helium did that occurred earlier the predetermination for the book, who helium described arsenic saying that each the erstwhile president had to bash was triumph and "occasionally amusement impervious of beingness and the radical astir him would tally the country."

"And their justification was erstwhile you, archetypal of all, you're not bringing backmost Trump. And erstwhile radical ballot for president, they're besides voting for the radical astir them, and immoderate radical successful the Biden world, that is however they justified keeping this going," Thompson added. 

Tapper added that presumption was "crazy."

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ESPN's Stephen A. Smith spoke to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson astir their caller publication connected "The Stephen A. Smith Show" connected Wednesday. (Fox News)

"That was idiosyncratic who worked for the White House earlier the election, earlier Biden dropped out, saying like, it's nary large deal, helium conscionable needs to amusement impervious of life. That was the term, impervious of life.' I mean, that's truthful offensive," Tapper said.

The CNN big besides accused the erstwhile president, and those astir him, of being anti-democratic.

"And similar the thought that Biden thought lone helium could bushed Trump and that helium could beryllium president for different 4 years, some of those are not facts and they some look unusual to me. But the thought that helium would contradict the Democratic Party an accidental to person a superior strategy that would produce, among imaginable candidates, whether you oregon Gretchen Whitmer oregon Josh Shapiro oregon Gavin Newsom oregon whoever, that helium would contradict that to the party, truthful that this tiny radical of people, including him, and 1 furniture caput said to america that it was, astatine best, helium was a elder subordinate of a committee that ran the country. It's anti-democratic, really," helium said, speaking to Smith, who has suggested that he was open to a imaginable bid for the presidency.

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Former President Joe Biden spoke astatine a quality league connected the last time of the NATO acme successful Washington, July 11, 2024.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Tapper has admitted that helium didn't screen Biden's diminution extensively capable since the book's merchandise and has said helium looks backmost connected it with "humility."