Jake Tapper scrambled to respond when confronted directly over his new book — written with Axios reporter Alex Thompson — and the assertion that any &#8220;cover-up&#8221; of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s obvious cognitive and physical decline would only have been possible with the help of journalists.
Tapper and Thompson&#8217;s book, &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; details Biden&#8217;s decline and his decision to run again despite that – and Tapper struggled to defend the fact that he, like many others in media, had failed to report on what was obvious to so many in Right-leaning media and to the American people.
Tapper was ultimately forced to admit that the conservative journalists — who&#8217;d been reporting on Biden&#8217;s obvious impairment for months, if not years — had been right all along.
&#8220;Alex and I are here to say the 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 percent,&#8221; he said.
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This Tapper quote goes out to everybody in conservative media who’s gotten a belligerent late night Tapper DM: “Alex and I are here to say the conservative media was right and conservative media was correct and that there should be a lot of soul-searching, not just among me, but… <a href="https://t.co/jZ1MJv2oXZ">https://t.co/jZ1MJv2oXZ</a>
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1924964444557176944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The admission came during an interview with Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly, who said Biden&#8217;s decline was &#8220;obvious&#8221; to the actually curious media.
&#8220;Over here in my ecosphere, we were covering all of these things,&#8221; Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly began. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t just falling down, it was getting lost. It was some of the stuff you report in your book, we knew and we were reporting on. Like the multi jump-cuts in the videos of him, where it was obvious he couldn&#8217;t get through a one minute take.&#8221;
&#8220;It was clear to us that he was using a teleprompter, and there was some reporting on that at the time — all of which the White House was denying,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Now, the current White House, I have some connections. With the Joe Biden White House, I had none — but you did. There was an attempted cover-up. It could only ever work if you allowed it, if the press allowed it. Some of us tried not to and some of us were complicit.&#8221;
Tapper pushed back then, saying that the Biden White House had not been terribly fond of him either — but Kelly argued that he&#8217;d gotten some 200 people in Biden&#8217;s orbit to talk to him for the book. Tapper noted that they spoke to him after the election, but Kelly said that he could have &#8220;called and worked&#8221; them before that.
&#8220;No, that&#8217;s the point, they were not being honest,&#8221; Tapper protested. &#8220;That&#8217;s the point.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, how did The Wall Street Journal get it in June of 2024?&#8221; Kelly asked. &#8220;And Jake Tapper and CNN couldn&#8217;t find sources for this story then, before he dropped out?&#8221;
Tapper noted that he&#8217;d had the reporters who broke the story for the WSJ — Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes — on his show to discuss their reporting after the debate he&#8217;d hosted alongside Dana Bash. However, he was forced to admit the fact that he didn&#8217;t have them on when the story broke – and had instead had them on after Biden&#8217;s disastrous debate performance.
Tapper claimed that he was &#8220;sure&#8221; he&#8217;d wanted to have them on when the story broke, but that he wasn&#8217;t aware of what the &#8220;booking situation&#8221; was at the time. Kelly noted that he&#8217;d instead booked a Democrat who spent the time smearing the WSJ report as propaganda from Rupert Murdoch.
&#8220;If we&#8217;re going to do this, let&#8217;s stick to the facts here, okay?&#8221; Tapper said.
&#8220;Jake, I&#8217;ve — that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing all along,&#8221; Kelly shot back. &#8220;One of us didn&#8217;t miss the story of the century when it comes to presidential politics, and one of us did.&#8221;
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&#8220;One of us didn&#8217;t miss the biggest story of the century when it comes to presidential politics, and one of us did.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MegynKelly</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeTapper</a> debate Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline and the media&#8217;s role.
FULL interview out soon:<a href="https://t.co/YJPxz5Gu8d">https://t.co/YJPxz5Gu8d</a><a href="https://t.co/F96HgI7HIW">https://t.co/F96HgI7HIW</a> <a href="https://t.co/0GBVN29mZR">pic.twitter.com/0GBVN29mZR</a>
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/MegynKellyShow/status/1924884165968769062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who resigned amid twin scandals regarding his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, is now the subject of an investigation undertaken by the U.S. Justice Department.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/andrew-cuomo-investigation-doj.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Tuesday that the investigation had begun about one month earlier, and that it stemmed from his order mandating that nursing homes in the state of New York accept patients regardless of whether or not they&#8217;d tested positive for COVID-19.
The times cited two as-yet-unnamed &#8220;sources familiar with the matter&#8221; and said, &#8220;The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of Andrew M. Cuomo, a front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, after Republicans accused him of lying to Congress about decisions he made during the coronavirus pandemic as governor.&#8221;
A Justice Department spokesperson reportedly declined to comment on the situation, citing a policy against discussing ongoing investigations either to confirm or deny their existence.
Cuomo is currently leading the Democratic field going into the next New York City mayoral election, and his spokesman Rich Azzopardi claimed that the investigation was politically motivated.
&#8220;We have never been informed of any such matter, so why would someone leak it now? The answer is obvious: This is lawfare and election interference plain and simple — something President Trump and his top Department of Justice officials say they are against,&#8221; Azzopardi said, arguing that Cuomo had &#8220;testified truthfully to the best of his recollection about events from four years earlier, and he offered to address any follow-up questions from the subcommittee — but from the beginning this was all transparently political.&#8221;
The investigation was opened by the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney’s Office when Ed Martin was still serving in the position on an interim basis. Jeanine Pirro has since been appointed to the role and her office will spearhead the investigation.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said after a hearing in June of 2024 that he had seen &#8220;overwhelming evidence&#8221; that Cuomo had been part of a 2020 audit that undercounted COVID nursing home deaths by 46%. He was referred to the Justice Department for what were termed &#8220;criminally false statements.&#8221;
The news comes just weeks after the Justice Department dropped a case against current Mayor Eric Adams — who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-back-in-nyc-mayor-race-as-an-independent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running for reelection</a> as an independent — over concerns that it had been a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-dismisses-corruption-case-against-nyc-mayor-eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">political prosecution</a> undertaken by the DOJ under former President Joe Biden.

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President Donald Trump minced no words in his response to the charges filed against Re. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) for her alleged actions during a physical confrontation between protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside a New Jersey detention facility.
The charges against McIver stemmed from a protest — at which she was joined by fellow Reps. Bonnie Watson-Coleman (D-NJ) and Rob Menendez (D-NJ) and Demcoratic Newark Mayor Ras Baraka — outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. According to the charges against her, body cam footage from the protest shows McIver physically engaging federal agents during a scuffle.
Trump was asked about the situation on Tuesday, and he made it clear that the Justice Department had his full support in pursuing the charges against McIver.
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🚨Trump on the arrest of Dem Rep. LaMonica McIver who assaulted a federal agent outside a NJ ICE facility:
&#8220;Did you see her? She was out of control&#8230;The days of that crap are OVER in this country. We&#8217;re gonna have LAW and ORDER.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/yCvmOo004t">pic.twitter.com/yCvmOo004t</a>
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&#8220;Oh, give me a break. Did you see her?&#8221; Trump asked. &#8220;She was out of control. Those days are over. The days of woke are over. That woman — I don&#8217;t — I have no idea who she is. That woman was out of control. She was shoving federal agents, she was out of control. The days of that crap are OVER in this country. We&#8217;re gonna have law and order.&#8221;
CNN Republican commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scott-jennings-defends-trump-for-charging-new-jersey-dem-cnn-host-has-wild-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Jennings</a> discussed the issue with several other panelists on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;CNN NewsNight,&#8221; and when he asked whether a &#8220;non-politician&#8221; would get away with physically confronting a federal agent, host Abby Phillip responded by deflecting and attacking President Donald Trump for pardoning those involved with the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill.
&#8220;You might get a pardon,&#8221; she said pointedly.

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Trump Unloads On New Jersey Dem Charged In ICE Dust-Up: ‘The Days Of That Crap Are OVER’

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In a moment that recalled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s frustrated exclamation during the Benghazi hearings, &#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at everyone who has been questioning former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive and physical fitness for the job he held until January 20.
&#8220;Why is this important to know now?&#8221; she demanded to know during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast — the same day that &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; the book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s obvious decline, hit bookstores everywhere.
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Whoopi decries the American people learning Democrats lied to them about Biden&#8217;s health: 
&#8220;Why is this important to know now?!&#8221; 
Joy Behar tries to distract from the fact she and the cast took part in the coverup by manically ranting about &#8220;Trump&#8217;s atrocities.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/VLhiOV2Oa7">pic.twitter.com/VLhiOV2Oa7</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924847259490943363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Golberg began by attacking the authors&#8217; reliance on &#8220;anonymous sources&#8221; to write the book — and wondered why those people, if they were willing to provide such damning information after the fact, had not been willing to speak up earlier.
&#8220;But my question is, why is this important to know now?&#8221; Goldberg asked — sounding much like Clinton, who during the Benghazi hearings had asked, &#8220;What difference, at this point, does it make?&#8221;
&#8220;It just seems to me, you know, we got a lot of stuff to be concerned about at the moment,&#8221; she continued, suggesting that it no longer mattered that Biden&#8217;s decline was hidden from the American people even thought many of the people responsible for hiding it were still in positions of influence and power.
Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back on the rest of her cohosts, saying that if they wanted to claim they were supportive of a free press, they couldn&#8217;t attack the press when it reported things they didn&#8217;t like.
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Sara Haines actually acknowledges the audio of Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden where he forgets major moments of his life. 
Whoopi defends, arguing that sure he&#8217;s &#8220;83 and &#8220;a little stumbly, a little rumbly&#8221; but &#8220;I can&#8217;t point to anything that he&#8217;s done as president [that&#8217;s evidence of… <a href="https://t.co/mkLQ6aa8j0">pic.twitter.com/mkLQ6aa8j0</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924853941956673744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines mentioned the recently-released audio from former Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden, acknowledging how damaging that was to Biden — but Goldberg pushed back and dismissed Biden&#8217;s failure to recall important events as him being just &#8220;a little stumble, a little rumbly.&#8221;

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that the Defense Department was preparing to convene a Special Review Panel to fully and thoroughly investigate the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August of 2021.
Hegseth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/full-accountability-hegseth-promises-review-of-bidens-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal">promised</a> early on that the DoD would review every bit of available information and deliver accountability after the previous administration, under President Joe Biden, presided over the chaotic evacuation of civilians and troops through Hamid Karzai International Airport — which resulted in the deaths of 13 American service members and grievous injuries to dozens more. Tuesday&#8217;s announcement made good on that promise.
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The Defense Department also posted a press release on Tuesday detailing the plans for the panel and noting that the deeper investigation would be spearheaded by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs — and Army Ranger veteran — Sean Parnell.
&#8220;Three and a half years ago the Biden Administration&#8217;s disastrous and embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and 170 civilians in a suicide bombing at the Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate. President Trump promised accountability for what transpired during that military withdrawal, and I am committed to delivering on that promise,&#8221; the release from Hegseth&#8217;s office read.
&#8220;We have an obligation to the American people and to the warfighters who fought in Afghanistan to get the truth &#8211; and we will. Today, I am directing the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Senior Advisor Sean Parnell to convene a Special Review Panel for the Department into the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Sean Parnell spent 485 days serving in Afghanistan. Sean was wounded in action along with 85% of his platoon and lost countless friends to the War on Terror. It is fitting that he will lead the effort to reexamine previous Abbey Gate investigations conducted by U.S. Central Command during the Biden Administration.&#8221;
Hegseth also noted several others who would be included in the investigative team: &#8220;In addition, Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, a combat-decorated Marine officer who spoke out about the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Jerry Dunleavy, an author, journalist, and investigator who helped lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s investigation into the Afghanistan withdraw, will serve on the Special Review Panel. Sean and his team will look at the facts, examine the sources, interview witnesses, analyze the decision making, and post-mortem the chain of events that led to one of America’s darkest moments. Sean and his team will provide updates at appropriate times to keep the American people informed of our findings and any directed actions resulting from our review.&#8221;
Previous investigations have determined that Biden&#8217;s firm insistence on reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan on his timeline had forced the military to accommodate a withdrawal through HKIA in Kabul rather than the more easily-defended <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-matter-the-cost-biden-harris-admin-pushed-afghanistan-withdrawal-despite-warnings-committee-finds">Bagram Air Base</a> — and that the chaos of attempting evacuations amid a busy urban environment had resulted in assets and allies being abandoned in addition to setting the stage for the terror attack at Abbey Gate.

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A CNN panel discussion went off the rails on Monday as Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky refused to address a question about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s obvious cognitive and physical decline — and the lengths to which his White House went to cover that up — without pivoting to complain about current President Donald Trump.
As the panel discussed Biden&#8217;s term in the White House — in the context of &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; the book written by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson — Roginsky repeatedly interrupted to shoehorn in her issues with President Trump, demanding several times that he should be made to submit to a cognitive test in spite of the fact that he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-got-every-answer-right-trump-swipes-at-biden-after-annual-physical" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already has</a>.
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ME: The Biden cover-up is pretty bad.
DEM: bUt TrUmP!
ME: Ok but the story is the Biden cover up, right?
DEM: tRuMp cOgNiTiVe TeSt!
ME: &lt;Ron Burgundy voice&gt; We are laughing! <a href="https://t.co/XPhQluYek5">pic.twitter.com/XPhQluYek5</a>
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Republican commentator Scott Jennings sparked a reaction from her when he asked whether she was defending Biden&#8217;s time in the White House and saying that he was &#8220;fine&#8221; during that time.
&#8220;Are you arguing the Joe Biden was fine during his term?&#8221; Jennings asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not arguing that he was fine, I&#8217;m arguing that Donald Trump —&#8221; Roginsky said.
&#8220;You keep pivoting back to Trump, who&#8217;s clearly fine,&#8221; Jennings pushed back. &#8220;I&#8217;m just asking you if you&#8217;re arguing that something was not wrong with Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;But let me ask you — let me ask you a question,&#8221; Roginsky continued. &#8220;Scott, I&#8217;m so glad you asked that question. Because Joe Biden&#8217;s no longer the president.&#8221;
&#8220;But he was, and that&#8217;s the story tonight,&#8221; Jennings pointed out.
&#8220;Donald Trump — Donald Trump —&#8221; Roginsky protested. &#8220;Well, no, actually, stop. Stop! Stop! Let me finish, let me finish what I&#8217;m saying. Let me finish something. Donald Trump is the President of the United States. I would dearly love to see a cognitive test from him, because as somebody who&#8217;s lived in the New York media market for the last forty years, I can tell you, that the Donald Trump that I knew in the 80s is not the Donald Trump that I hear today.&#8221;
&#8220;So your answer to the cover-up is &#8216;Trump,'&#8221; Jennings prompted.
&#8220;My answer is —&#8221; Roginsky began.
From Jennings: &#8220;No, your answer to every question is &#8216;Trump.&#8217; The cover-up is the story tonight.&#8221;
&#8220;My answer is the president — yes, the cover-up is also the President of the United States, who happens to be Donald J. Trump today, is not – yeah, you could laugh all you want — you know why you&#8217;re laughing? Because you don&#8217;t —&#8221;
At that point, Jennings spliced in a clip of actor Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy for effect: &#8220;We are laughing!&#8221;
&#8220;No, no, no, we&#8217;re not laughing. You don&#8217;t want to answer the question, Scott,&#8221; she complained.

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A new policy rolled out on Tuesday will limit recommendations for an annual COVID-19 booster shot to the elderly and to children and younger adults who have at least one health condition that puts them at greater risk for developing severe disease.
According to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fda-kennedy-covid-shots-rfk-trump-bb4de15b6ff955d6cd0b406aaec3cdc5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Tuesday morning by The Associated Press, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would recommend annual booster shots for adults over the age of 65 in addition to younger adults and children whose pre-existing conditions or health concerns put them at greater risk of hospitalization or death from contracting COVID-19.
An <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> published on Tuesday by the New England Journal of Medicine provides a framework for developing and testing annual vaccines that might eventually be offered to generally healthy people who don&#8217;t fall into the currently recommended age and risk categories.
&#8220;For all healthy persons — those with no risk factors for severe Covid-19 — between the ages of 6 months and 64 years, the FDA anticipates the need for randomized, controlled trial data evaluating clinical outcomes before Biologics License Applications can be granted,&#8221; the article read. &#8220;Insofar as possible, when approving a Covid-19 vaccine for high-risk groups, the FDA will encourage manufacturers to conduct randomized, controlled trials in the population of healthy adults as part of their postmarketing commitment.&#8221;
The article, titled &#8220;An Evidence-Based Approach to COVID-19 Vaccination&#8221; and written by FDA Commissioner Marty Makari and Dr. Vinay Prasad, noted that COVID vaccine recommendations in European nations already reflected a move toward protecting the elderly and those at greatest risk rather than blanket coverage of the entire population, and their goal was to shift the United States to a similar standard.
&#8220;The FDA’s new Covid-19 philosophy represents a balance of regulatory flexibility and a commitment to gold-standard science. The FDA will approve vaccines for high-risk persons and, at the same time, demand robust, gold-standard data on persons at low risk. These clinical trials will inform future directions for the FDA, but more important, they will provide information that is desperately craved by health care providers and the American people.&#8221;

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings defended President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration for moving forward with charges against one of the House Democrats involved in a physical scuffle with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside a New Jersey detention facility — but CNN host Abby Phillip tried her level best to make the conversation about President Donald Trump instead.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-charge-new-jersey-democrat-over-clash-with-agents-at-ice-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver</a> (D-NJ) stemmed from a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newark-mayor-arrested-after-dem-reps-storm-new-jersey-ice-facility-charge-past-security-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dust-up</a> outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, where she was allegedly caught on body-cam video getting physical with federal agents during a protest that also involved two other House Democrats — New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson-Coleman and Rob Menendez — and Democratic Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Jennings argued during a Monday panel discussion that Trump&#8217;s Justice Department was well within its rights to level charges against McIver for her actions — but Phillip jumped in to run interference.
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Feds well within rights to charge Rep. McIver for assaulting law enforcement at ICE facility in Newark.
The video doesn’t lie &#8211; it ain’t no cheap fake! Amazing how much energy Dems put into illegal aliens. Week after week. They’d never fight that hard for the American people. <a href="https://t.co/yjP0GiJSdr">pic.twitter.com/yjP0GiJSdr</a>
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Mayor Baraka began the discussion by claiming that he believed the videos would ultimately clear McIver of any wrongdoing, but Jennings was not buying it.
&#8220;I mean, the videos are pretty clear, are they not?&#8221; Jennings asked. &#8220;I mean, she&#8217;s shoving — elbows — pushing, I mean, this is violent activity against law enforcement, is it not?&#8221;
Barak attempted to downplay the scene, saying simply, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of pushing and shoving. I don&#8217;t know if —&#8221;
&#8220;Would a regular person, if they came and did that to a federal officer, get away with it?&#8221; Jennings pressed.
&#8220;A regular person —?&#8221; Baraka asked.
&#8220;Just a regular person, a non-politician,&#8221; Jennings clarified.
&#8220;They might get pardoned,&#8221; Phillip interjected, clearly referencing the people Trump pardoned for their involvement in the riots on January 6th, 2021.
&#8220;If they showed up at a federal facility —&#8221; Jennings continued.
&#8220;They might get pardoned,&#8221; Phillip repeated. &#8220;By this president.&#8221;
&#8220;But were they charged?&#8221; Jennings pressed. &#8220;Were they charged? Were they convicted in court? Would a regular person get away with it?&#8221;
Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky then tried to convince Jennings that the video of McIver was not clear, and that he&#8217;d be able to see that if he took off his &#8220;MAGA goggle glasses.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not a &#8216;cheap fake,&#8217; I can tell you that,&#8221; Jennings said of the body cam footage.

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Naomi Biden lashed out at the forthcoming book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson — which explores the extent of her grandfather&#8217;s obvious cognitive and physical decline while in the White House — and claimed it amounted to little more than &#8220;uninspired lies.&#8221;
Naomi, whose father is Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden, responded to a post on X that claimed Tapper and Thompson were publishing the book in an effort to make themselves the &#8220;center of attention&#8221; — and that they would be better served to focus on President Donald Trump and his &#8220;daily assaults on our constitution.&#8221;
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&#8220;Tapper and Thompson want to be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books. But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the WH, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/RPleruhgwI">https://t.co/RPleruhgwI</a>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1924490418760130704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Just read a copy of this silly book, and if anyone is curious for a review from someone who lived it first-hand: this book is political fairy smut for the permanent, professional chattering class,&#8221; Naomi Biden wrote in response. &#8220;The ones who rarely enter the arena, but profit from the spectacle of those that do.&#8221;
&#8220;Put simply, it amounts to a bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies written by irresponsible self promoting journalists out to make a quick buck,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;It relies on unnamed, anonymous sources pushing a self-serving false narrative that absolves them of any responsibility for our current national nightmare. All of this at the expense of a man so completely good and honest that it is impossible for these people to ever understand the why or how of it all. There are real stories to be told and one day they will be. I suspect history will reward the truth.&#8221;
The book, set for release on May 20, will hit shelves just two days after the former president&#8217;s office announced that he was diagnosed with an &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had already metastasized to his bones. That announcement led to some — even some who had been critical of Biden&#8217;s fitness and his decision to run again in 2024 — to say that perhaps he should be left alone.
David Axelrod, who served as chief campaign strategist to former President Barack Obama, said that the conversation about Biden&#8217;s cognitive fitness &#8220;should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidaxelrod</a>: Conversations about Biden’s mental acuity “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.”<a href="https://t.co/ULDkqRS9O9">https://t.co/ULDkqRS9O9</a>
— Adam Wren (@adamwren) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1924250863373083055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Naomi Biden Trashes Book On Her Grandfather’s Cognitive Decline: ‘Uninspired Lies’

Naomi Biden Trashes Book On Her Grandfather's Cognitive Decline: 'Uninspired Lies'

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s latest dig at Republican women made it clear that she has learned absolutely nothing from the massive wave of backlash that hit her after her 2016 comment referring to President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters as a &#8220;basket of deplorables.&#8221;
Clinton sat down with Margaret Hoover for an interview in early May, and Hoover used the opportunity to ask the twice-failed Democratic presidential candidate what advice she might have for the first female President of the United States.
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🚨NEW: Hillary Clinton appears to have learned nothing from her 2016 “basket of deplorables” remark — she just smeared nearly *all* Republican women as “HANDMAIDEN[S] TO THE PATRIARCHY”🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/9rrFjDdO12">pic.twitter.com/9rrFjDdO12</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1924121589555007755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Well,&#8221; Clinton began, and then there was a long pause before she added, &#8220;First of all, don’t be a handmaiden to the patriarchy, which kind of eliminates every woman on the other side of the aisle, except for very few.&#8221;
She named Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) as one example of a Republican woman who did not fit that particular description. Hoover suggested that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) would be another.
&#8220;Yep, there&#8217;s a few,&#8221; Clinton continued. &#8220;Look, first we have to get there, and it is, you know, obviously so much harder than it should be. So, you know, if a woman runs who I think would be a good president, as I thought Kamala Harris would be and as I knew I would be, I will support that woman.&#8221;
Lily Tang Williams, Republican candidate for New Hampshire&#8217;s 2nd House District, fired back via X: &#8220;Hillary Clinton called Republican women &#8216;Handmaidens for the patriarchy.&#8217; What does she call her own party which supports men competing with women in women’s sports, hurting women &amp; invading their private spaces? Hypocrites!&#8221;
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Hillary Clinton called Republican women &#8220;Handmaidens for the patriarchy.&#8221;
What does she call her own party which supports men competing with women in women’s sports, hurting women &amp; invading their private spaces? Hypocrites! 
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— Lily Tang Williams (@Lily4Liberty) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lily4Liberty/status/1924525967529136412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hillary Clinton Says GOP Women Are 'Handmaidens To The Patriarchy' — Except Two

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; complained during Monday&#8217;s broadcast about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis and people who might bring politics into it — immediately after which they injected their own politics by trying to make it about President Donald Trump.
Whoopi Goldberg started the ball rolling, reacting on the show to the news that Biden — who had just appeared on the show a little over a week earlier — had been diagnosed with an advanced and &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.
Goldberg laughed off claims that there was any cover-up regarding Biden&#8217;s health or cognitive fitness, and then used a clip from his recent appearance — where former First Lady Jill Biden had been forced to step in and help him answer a question — as proof that he was fine.
She then complained that the new revelation regarding his cancer diagnosis would only &#8220;add fuel to the fire&#8221; for those who already believed that the Bidens had not been telling the truth about his condition. Her assessment was that it was time for everyone to simply &#8220;put politics aside.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin makes Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis about Trump: 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics. But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research&#8230;cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think… <a href="https://t.co/EfcosBBvBN">pic.twitter.com/EfcosBBvBN</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924508534714061167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin started off in agreement with Goldberg, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics.&#8221;
She then immediately pivoted to make it political — and use it to attack President Donald Trump — adding, &#8220;But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research &#8230; cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think that&#8217;s so despicable and so disdainful.&#8221;
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin brought the topic back around to Biden, saying that there was a way to have the conversation without making it solely about the politics, arguing that the latter would not be &#8220;helpful to anyone.&#8221;
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Goldberg claims &#8220;there&#8217;s no way&#8221; Biden had cancer during his presidency and hid it from the voters: 
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was… <a href="https://t.co/S0Egee6YbR">pic.twitter.com/S0Egee6YbR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924512513980354828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg jumped back in to insist it was impossible for Biden to have had cancer while he was president because he would not have been able to hide the treatments from the public.
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was carrying around or that he was hiding,&#8221; she said.

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‘The View’ Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

'The View' Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden's Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

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Michael LaRosa — who once worked as former First Lady Jill Biden&#8217;s press secretary — went scorched earth on his ex-employer during a recent Fox News appearance, saying that President Joe Biden and his family were &#8220;allergic to transparency.&#8221;
LaRosa joined &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends: Weekend&#8221; on Sunday to discuss the recently-released audio of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s interview with then-Special Counsel Robert Hur, and he commented specifically on how difficult it was for even those working for the Bidens in the White House — like himself — to get a &#8220;straight answer&#8221; out of anyone.
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&quot;ALLERGIC TO TRANSPARENCY&quot;: Jill Biden&#39;s former press secretary slams the Biden administration for its lack of openness <a href="https://t.co/SthIfnW9k1">pic.twitter.com/SthIfnW9k1</a>
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Host Rachel Campos Duffy asked LaRosa about the Hur interview audio, specifically questioning him on how things might have changed if the Bidens had been unsuccessful in keeping the audio out of the public square even after the transcripts were released.
&#8220;If you only knew how hard it was — I mean, this was a group in the White House who were allergic to transparency,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I go back to my — and I&#8217;m just talking about like just in the East Wing [the First Lady&#8217;s office]. I mean, the very first day walking into the White House, the usher was fired and I couldn&#8217;t get reporters straight answers because nobody would give me straight answers.&#8221;
&#8220;It was not intuitive to them, it was not their style, to be transparent about anything,&#8221; LaRosa continued. &#8220;They took days and months to be deliberative, and I&#8217;m talking about the small things. About when the dog bites occurred, or about the wedding with the grandkids. They got caught lying to the press about press coverage because they were so scared to be transparent about anything.&#8221;
LaRosa said he eventually got to the point where he had to consider the possibility that if they were unwilling to be even the slightest bit transparent on the little things, &#8220;My God, what would happen if there were big things?&#8221;
LaRosa&#8217;s comments came just two days ahead of the release of &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; — the book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s obvious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-book-promises-to-deliver-bombshells-but-are-they-bombshells-if-everyone-already-knew" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cognitive and physical decline</a> — and hours before Biden&#8217;s office revealed that he had an &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive form</a>&#8221; of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.

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Jill Biden’s Former Press Sec Goes Scorched Earth On Ex-Employer: ‘Allergic To Transparency’

Jill Biden's Former Press Sec Goes Scorched Earth On Ex-Employer: 'Allergic To Transparency'

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