May 28, 2025

ED MORRISSEY: Tapper: The Biden Fraud May Be Worse Than Watergate.

May be? It may be the worst scandal since Woodrow Wilson, and over the same type of incapacity. Watergate was a criminal conspiracy to cover up a dirty political campaign trick. Bidengate involves the hijacking of the presidency itself, with a conspiracy that involves senior leaders of a major political party and Cabinet officials, not to mention Vice President Kamala Harris herself. And let’s not forget that the Protection Racket Media didn’t just fail to uncover it, they actively acted to cover it up — for four full years.

Watergate was a bungled frat prank in comparison.

Jake Tapper tells Piers Morgan that this scandal “may be worse than Watergate” as part of the tour for his book, which casts the “Original Sin” only in that Joe Biden sought a second term:

Morgan apparently reacted to a line in Original Sin that declared, “Joe Biden is not Richard Nixon, and this is not Watergate.” A slightly longer clip on YouTube provides that context and explains why Tapper interjected to make sure that his next sentence, declaring this “an entirely different scandal,” was provided for context.

Ed goes on to write that “The original sin isn’t the Biden 2024 campaign:”

It was the Get Trump By Any Means Necessary conspiracy between Democrats and the Protection Racket Media that began in 2016 and continues to this day. This is far worse than Watergate; the corruption extends throughout the entire progressive elite in politics and in media.

But as David Harsanyi wrote last week:

We still have no clue who participated. We have seen no reckoning by reporters or Democrats who participated in the sham. Sure, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, has sparked discussion about the former president’s state. The problem is that the book is written by reporters as if they are merely spectators rather than participants.

Original Sin is like All the President’s Men if the latter hadn’t named any of the men and had been written by John Ehrlichman.

In this case, All the President’s Men include all the Democratic Party operatives with bylines who pushed Biden over the finish line in 2020, and in an effort to do it all again one more time last year, lied about “cheap fakes” and as NBC’s Joe Scarborough infamously gushed, “This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.”

But Tapper and Thompson dare not write that book, if they want to remain gainfully employed as Democrat stenographers themselves.

Oh, and speaking of the paper that brought you All the President’s Men: Was Biden too frail for the job? Voters should have been informed.

—The Washington Post, last week. (The Post, which has never endorsed a Republican candidate for president, wrote a fawning editorial praising Biden as being “exceptionally well-qualified, by character and experience, to meet the daunting challenges that the nation will face over the coming four years,” in 2020.)

UPDATE: Jake Tapper’s Endgame Comes Into View: We Failed Covering Biden’s Age But We Won’t Fail With Trump.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll