CNN’s Tapper: The W.H. Lied to Everyone on How Bad Things Had Gotten with Biden’s Decline

SINDER: “You have an entire White House press corps, though, following him around. And I‘m just curious as to whether or not this kind of trying to hide what was happening with the president at the time had an impact on the press corps. Like, why didn‘t we hear some of these details from what they actually saw and were dealing with trying to get information?”
TAPPER: “Well, Alex Thompson and I were on the case, as were lots of other reporters, trying to figure out what was going on behind the scenes. But the bottom line is, the White House was lying not only to the press, not only to the public, but they were lying to members of their own cabinet. They were lying to White House staffers. They were lying to Democratic members of Congress, to donors, about how bad things had gotten. And, in fact, Alex and I started writing this book after the election of 2024, and we spoke with more than 200 people, most of whom, almost all of whom were Democrats and almost all of whom wouldn‘t be honest with us or wouldn‘t be candid with us until after the election. And then after the election, we found out all of these things, that when you looked at what was going on with President Biden at the time, it probably doesn‘t surprise you, the extent to which he was deteriorating. But now we have anecdotes and facts about what was really going on behind the scenes, with details that Democrats wouldn‘t share with us until after Election Day.”