Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book reveals that many insiders had concerns about Joe Biden before his 2024 Presidential debate. Could reporters have pushed harder to get more of the story sooner?
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Could reporters have pushed harder to talk more about the chaos and destruction that is happening now? Yes, absolutely, but like you they’re focusing on a man who is not even President or thinking about running again.
Let the man deal with his cancer and move on to the present.
Ffs, could you please focus on what's currently happening vs shit that really doesn't pertain to the current occupier of the White House, who is destroying our country with the help of people who are very much in their right minds, but are just defunct in the empathy dept, but accel at greed.
Have you not noticed the steady cognitive decline in Donald Trump? Ronny Jackson , Donald Trump former physician 'Bullied' Subordinates and made sexual comments, he abused alcohol while on duty. Then he was kicked out as Trump personal doctor.
NAZI regime - where you will be owned and controlled by the EGO greedy power hungry Christian nationalists government - with Trump dictator at the helm 😡
I don't care. Look at it in 30 years.
There is a clear and present danger currently in the White House and he has the support of the Supreme Court a a majority in Congress. This is a threat to the republic.
How about this for your story... we don't give a fuck any more about this. Stop trying to rehash it every 48 hrs especially when we have a current President who's OBVIOUSLY way worse off than Biden was, and he's currently destroying the USA as we know it. Maybe focus on the current POTUS? U Fucks!
Seriously New Yorker, with a constitutional crisis at hand, and three western nation governments—Canada, Great Britain, France—on the verge of sanctions against Israel, this is what you are wasting print on? WTF. General Strike!
If any decline made him lose the election it was the moral decline of democrats! Allowing Israhell to carry on its genocide on Palestinian children is what cost them the election.
Jesus Christ, this changes nothing about how I would have voted or my feelings about Joe Biden as human. I do love the very serious and totally real concern about media not informing people in a timely manner.
Tapper is a novice, he should have used the comey strategy for a upcoming book release
The US uses a hyper-partisan 2 party distorted voting system so the parties must fight even over things they would otherwise agree on, so if the Rs say Joe is demented, the Ds have to totally refute. The truth is nuanced, but we'll only get to that with multi-party proportional representation.
Give us a break. A lot of gossip and misinformation and Biden snd his administration were successful in the main.
The country is falling apart in corruption and cruelty so maybe you MSM should concentrate on reporting on that instead of picking on an honourable man who did his best. Cowards!
Could the reporter's have pushed more to show Trump's corruption, dementia & sheer unsuitability for the job. I'm sure they could, & that has caused far more damage to USA than anything Biden has done
Hilarious to ask this bullshit, while (waves hands around) all of this worse shit is going on. This era is going to swallow all yall “journalists” alive.
Who really cares right now. I will never listen to Jake Tapper again. We have more pressing issues to deal with now. This sounds like something that should have been reported while it was happening. But he had to make money versus reporting the news. I hope the book sales suck.
Who's to blame for decline of America's RofLaw, Democracy, Constitution? trump w/aid of scotus, his lack of ethics/morals, pardoning J6ers who bashed, smashed, punched, kicked, stomped, sprayed DC law enforcement, forced their way into govt bldg. that was closed! JT's ratings are too low to measure!
They didn’t “miss” Joe Biden’s decline, they tried to hide it. Only when it became so obvious that it was a political liability did they push him aside.
Tapper is on tv everyday—he doesn’t need help pushing his pathetic I’m-a journalist-and-it’s-my-duty-to-cover both-sides-gotcha-Biden bullshit book. He’s low for this and he’s too arrogant to care.
You actually think it’s important to spend columns on this as America descends into fascism and loses its constitution??? Oh, how far the mighty have fallen, New Yorker. You are now an ironic New Yorker cartoon of yourselves.
Can we please worry more about whether reporters are pushing hard enough to "get more of the story" on the autocrat in office right now, who's doing everything he can to destroy our country?
Stop we dont care!!!! He is a private citizen focus on 47 and what he’s doing to our country!!reporters are useless they ask fluff question’s and if they do ask good question’s they don’t do follow up
Not sure if you guys heard, but there was a tax bill passed in the house this week that seems pretty devastating for anyone that doesn't own 5 homes and two yachts. You could maybe report on reporters not pushing harder on this story, since it kind of seems more relevant at this point in time.
Instead of writing something of relevance, we choose to focus on deflecting and running interference for the corrupt felon currently in the White House. There…fixed it for you.
How about reporters push harder in everything involving the government. Is it important that we understand what was happening with Biden, sure. A more pressing issue is actually holding the current fascist group up to massive questions and instead of laying down for future favors.
Apparently no one who felt it was relevant/important? Glad y’all weren’t covering FDR.
Right now, from Trump on down, list the high level members of the Trump administration whose judgment on important issues of the day you would take over Joe Biden’s. Any?
Wishful alternatives are just that
Stop this now. Biden watched as GOPers ramrodded legal charges against his surviving son. Another son died of cancer after serving our country. Then voters turned against him and all he did to recover from Trump v. 1 while T.2 is clearly incapacitated. It's destroying MY brain just writing this.
Didn’t your editor just do a sit-down interview with Tapper—guessing you have something of a vested interest in legitimizing him. What an incestuous media world we live in.
Enough already. You could devote an entire year of issues to the real problems being caused by the clown show in the WH and Congress, rather than rehashing what's in the past.
Here's a place where I opine that hindsight is not doing any good. It is making a story. This would be a story to tell when we get the cure for maga cancer.
Okay, can we just move past this? He didn’t continue to run, he’s dying now. Leave him be and focus on the CURRENT presidents corruption and lawlessness.
WTAF!?? Why are you talking about this still? The GOP house passed a cruel and anti-American budget that will harm all Americans and kill millions, and you are blathering about some bullshit? Seriously? Pull your head out of whatever crevice it is in and help Americans understand what is happening
Not you too with this crap. Maybe you should focus on why all the reporters now are not pushing harder to warn the American public that our Constitution is being burned to the ground by the current occupant of the White House.
I don’t give a fuh-huh-huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck about “Biden’s decline”. Between this and yday’s “maybe RFK has a point” headline, I’m this close to cancelling my subscription. Get it together.
Stop it, New Yorker. Just fucking stop it! This isn't the time for this kind of navel gazing. We have a legit Constitutional crisis happening, with a President showing more profound signs of cognitive decline than Biden did. It's like you want my subscription money to go elsewhere, you bastards.
@newyorker.com did you mean to post this on X or do you not understand that the audience on this platform cares about more pressing issues affecting the world?
One problem with a stupid ear press core is that from the outside, it is truly obvious that Biden was in decline, but those people had said something wrong at some point, and we left them by the wayside.
In other news trump and his minions are trying to destroy our country.
*Maybe* reporters need to push harder to get more of the democratic decline story sooner? After all, it's your democracy too @newyorker.com
Here’s a thought- why don’t YOU do some journalism & look into Tappers anonymous sources & the ethical ramifications of writing a hit piece on one candidate when moderating a debate in which you do no fact checking on the other candidate allowing them to spew a torrent of lies.
Well I remember watching David Remnick offering an extensive diagnosis of Biden based on his years of being a practicing journalist. PS: WHY is are you still pushing this story?
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But Joe Biden is old!!!!
They just never know when to give it a fucking rest
Let the man deal with his cancer and move on to the present.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-aging-slurring-trump-lives-in-fear-of-dads-dementia/
There is a clear and present danger currently in the White House and he has the support of the Supreme Court a a majority in Congress. This is a threat to the republic.
He cant be trusted. He may hold from the public his next big story for another book.
That's not journalism.
Tapper is a novice, he should have used the comey strategy for a upcoming book release
How about: “Should reporters be pushing harder to learn who the puppet master is to this orange buffoon?”
The country is falling apart in corruption and cruelty so maybe you MSM should concentrate on reporting on that instead of picking on an honourable man who did his best. Cowards!
I cancelled the NY Times and the Washington Post already. Don't fucking do this.
The media continues to this day to ignore Trump’s demonstrable insanity.
Because if not, this is bad faith journalism.
The SITTING POTUS is talking about 5-6 TRILLION in tariffs collected…
Literally making up numbers and journalists lapping it up.
The guy is dishonest as hell.
Right now, from Trump on down, list the high level members of the Trump administration whose judgment on important issues of the day you would take over Joe Biden’s. Any?
Wishful alternatives are just that
The logic being that Biden had more potential to become an 8-year term president than any new incumbent.
The Dems knew very well that if Trump got in again we'd be fucked.
Leave Joe Biden alone. He was a wonderful president.
For a magazine that should be more aware, you sure can’t read a room. Or, a nation.
Read my lips, New Yorker.
You all are scared of Trump, and know that covering Biden is “easy” on you!
COWARDS!
Helen Keller Was Not Blind.
*Maybe* reporters need to push harder to get more of the democratic decline story sooner? After all, it's your democracy too @newyorker.com
FOCUS!