An entire political party and mainstream media machine coordinating to hide a president’s severe cognitive decline is certainly worse than Richard Nixon’s “Watergate” scandal — but CNN anchor and author Jake Tapper is just getting comfortable acknowledging that obvious truth.
Tapper recently spoke with Piers Morgan about the Biden cover-up.
“‘Joe Biden is not Richard Nixon, and the hiding and cover-up of his deterioration is not Watergate.’ I am not entirely sure I agree, Jake with that conclusion,” Morgan said, quoting Tapper’s new book, during his show.
“The next line is, ‘It is an entirely separate scandal’. It is a scandal. It is without question, and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways. Because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn’t drinking, so the idea that, we don’t mean to exonerate,” Tapper said.
“The only reason that we have the Watergate thing in there is because we quote Archibald Cox, who was a Watergate investigator, talking about how powerful the presidency is and how presidents get surrounded by people who have a vested interest in keeping that president propped up,” the CNN host added. “So that’s the only reason we invoke Watergate is just to make clear like, it’s not Watergate this is an entirely separate scandal, maybe even worse.”
Morgan pressed Tapper, asking if he owed the American people an apology “for slightly dropping the ball on this.” He then rolled a 2020 clip of Tapper’s interview with Lara Trump, highlighting how the CNN anchor once scrutinized Donald Trump’s fitness—while giving Joe Biden a softer touch.
“I feel like I owe the American people an acknowledgment that I wish I had covered the story better,” Tapper responded. “Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she [Lara Trump] was right, and I was wrong. I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline.”
Watch the clip below:
WATCH: Jake Tapper admits to @PiersMorgan that the Biden health scandal might “actually be worse than Watergate.” pic.twitter.com/SjBFb5y7sD
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 26, 2025
