Jake Tapper’s ‘bombshell’ book on Biden’s decline is a laughable attempt to rewrite history

Published May 16, 2025 8:00am ET



An unearthed five-year-old interview is rightly making the rounds this week. It stars CNN’s Jake Tapper and Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump.

In the 2020 interview, weeks before Election Day, Lara Trump made the case that former President Joe Biden appeared to show signs of cognitive decline. She wasn’t wrong — even one year earlier, Democrats were saying the same thing. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said in September 2019: “There’s a lot of people who are concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling. There are definitely moments when you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder.” Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro asked Biden in September 2019, “Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? I can’t believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy [into Biden’s Medicare plan] and now you’re saying they don’t have to buy in. You’re forgetting that?”

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