The Ben Mulroney Show - The Media was complicit in the cover-up of Joe Biden's Mental Decline

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

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I think we all remember where we were when we watched the seminal debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden that signaled the end of Joe Biden's political career as he knew it. His cognitive decline was laid bare for the world to see and it ushered out Joe Biden, it ushered in Kamala Harris and it eventually ushered Donald Trump back into the White House. But that was by no means the first time any of us saw what we knew was clear and clearly a decline in mental acuity of the President of the United States. We had been seeing it, small anecdotal examples in the news during press conferences over the course of years. That being said, there were

people in the press that pushed back against any assertion that Joe Biden was anything but sharp as a tack. And one of those people who was pushing back against any suggestion to the contrary was CNN's Jake Tapper. So a lot of people very surprised when Jake Tapper told the world that he was writing a book about the conspiracy to keep Joe Biden's cognitive decline secret and avoid exposing it to the world. And that book has just been released. It's called Original Sin. secret and avoid exposing it to the world. And that book has just been released.

It's called Original Sin. And as Jake goes on his tour promoting the book, he knows he's got some questions to answer about his role in this entire charade. And one of the places he went was on the Megyn Kelly podcast, and she did not hold back. She called Jake Tapper out for missing what she called the biggest story of the century.

I had him on my show right after the debate to talk about the great reporting. But you did not put them on when they published that story, which was before the debate. Correct. I don't know what the booking situation was, but it wasn't because I didn't want them I'm sure I said that day let's book that did they yeah you put on a Democrat and and you allowed the Democrat to report

as a Rupert Murdoch sponsored hit piece it's just Megan what that's what happened if we're gonna do this let's just stick to the facts are okay when there is a damn in report that's why i've been doing all along i'm talking about what you just said i just i just think the biggest story of the century when it comes to presidential politics and one of us did so

the uh... there is a difference between the clips of Joe Biden falling on a stage at the Air Force Academy graduation. There is a difference between the clip of Joe Biden embarrassingly forgetting that a Republican member of Congress, who he's talking about, has died. Those are embarrassing. Those are important. But there

is a difference between that and the investigative journalism that Alex and I were able to do and only able to do after the election. And I know you know this because you've been talking about the scoops in the book. He's not wrong. There's a difference between the anecdotes and the images that you and I saw on television, the audio clips that we would hear of Joe Biden stumbling and mumbling his way through a sentence, the incoherence of it all. That's one thing and the reporting that is apparently in this book is seminal. I get that. It's orders of magnitude. However, one, the first is the entry point to the second.

We were all witness to those anecdotes. We were all peering through the keyhole and we saw what we saw. What was on the other side of the door is this reporting. But people like Jake Tapper were telling us, no, what you're seeing through that keyhole is nothing. It's nothing. Don't worry about it. It's fiction. It's vapor. It's misinformation. It is a mudslinging by the Republicans. And so that's where my problem with Jake Tapper lies. I'm very excited to read this book and I'm glad he wrote it, but he's the, it's the messenger being the message, you know, it's a little tricky.

They go on, Jake Tapper continues talking about covering the presidency, but not covering the mental decline of the president. It's May 2025. Do I wish that in that 10, 15 minute interview I had with Biden in October 2022, that this had been the only subject because I had then what I know now? Well, it wasn't just that though, Jake. It wasn't just that. I mean, you sat with him a couple of times in the course of his presidency and these issues were not pressed. Well, there was at least that time and then there was the time at the beginning.

But separate it apart from that, you covered the Biden presidency. No, no, no. Let me just finish my point. You covered the Biden presidency. I had one interview with him during his first. I had one interview with him during his first. Okay, right. And it was 13 days after the Jackie Wollorski thing.

But you covered the Biden presidency aggressively throughout the four years and you didn't cover mental acuity hardly at all. I mean, time and time again, when issues came up, you seem to be running cover for the president. I don't think that's true. No, she's right. He did. He absolutely did. And that's key. I think Jake in this moment, and kudos to him for sitting through what I'm sure was a very difficult conversation with Megyn Kelly. But it's not that how many times he spoke to Joe Biden, that's almost irrelevant. It's how many

times when Joe Biden's cognitive decline was brought up as a subject, he ran cover, he ran defense, he pushed back. And nevermore so was it evident in an interaction that Jake Tapper had with Lara Trump. Let's listen to how Megyn Kelly introduces this. Well, I mean, we'll start with the Laura Trump issue that you referred. Here it is. This happened in 2020. Joe Biden, as we all know, his work to overcome a stutter.

How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that? First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable to watch somebody on stage search for questions. You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was a stuttering. I have no idea, Joe Biden. I think that you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.

And it's very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world. Okay. That is all I'm saying. I genuinely feel sorry for Joe Biden. Thank you, Laura Trump. I appreciate it. I'm sure it was from a place of concern.

We all believe that. Laura Trump, thank you so much. Do you want to apologize to Laura Trump now? I've already apologized to her. I called her months ago And what does she say? I mean, I don't want to disclose the the contents of a private conversation But I thought the conversation went well and she said She has said this publicly so I'm feel fine sharing it. She said that she would never mock anybody's study Yeah, that that was clearly cover that Jake Tapper was running for Joe Biden. Look, Jake Tapper is a phenomenal journalist.

And one of his skills is the ability to sniff out what's real and what's not. That's what journalists do. They find the lead and they follow the lead. His show is called the lead. And so for him to have not, to have been petty and condescending and mean and snarky and claiming that Lara Trump didn't have standing

to diagnose cognitive decline, she wasn't diagnosing cognitive decline. She was doing what anyone with eyes and ears was doing, saying the guy isn't all there. And to take issue with that and turn it into something that it didn't need to be elicits questions that I don't think Jake Tapper has answered. And it wasn't just running cover for Joe Biden. It was the press writ large was running cover for Joe Biden and for the entire family.

You'll remember Hunter Biden was almost off limits to criticize for years. And here's Jake Tapper on another podcast calling out Hunter Biden. Well, I think Hunter was driving the decision making for the family in a way that people he was almost like a chief of staff of the family. Does that strike you as pretty bizarre? It's bizarre because I think he is provably, demonstrably unethical, sleazy, and prone to horrible decisions.

Tell me how you really feel. Well, I mean, I just look at the record. I mean, after his brother died, he cheated on his wife with his brother's widow and then got her addicted to crack. That's just one thing I could say. I mean, I don't have a lot of personal regard for him. And just based on having nothing to do with, I barely have ever met him. I've met him like once or twice.

I've never heard that from CNN. I only ever heard that on Fox News. So what is going on here? It's like I said more questions than answers. All right, don't go anywhere when we come back. We're gonna take your calls on Issues like this. Does it make you trust the media less don't go anywhere. This is the Ben Mulroney show Welcome back to the Ben Mulroney show. In the last segment, we were talking about Jake Tapper's new book that people running cover for Joe Biden. And to me, it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense because he is paid to be able to sniff out what is true and what is false. Anyway, Chris Cuomo of News Nation, formerly of CNN, said, there's a lot of blame to go

around, but one group in particular deserves a lot of that responsibility. When it comes to Biden, you know how I feel. You didn't see and hear his obvious diminished capacity. What we mentioned here at NewsNation all the time, this is a shocker. And now the narrative gets a nudge from a book that is about deception and a cover up. They want you to believe the media was deceived into thinking Biden had no issues.

Don't count me in on that. I knew, okay, and it was no secret because you knew too. The book is titled Original Sin, claiming to detail how Biden's staffers made efforts to hide his decline from the public and the media. The cover has Biden with his hands over his eyes, and it could just as easily be a picture of the writers of this book who are pretending they didn't see and hear what everybody else did.

And look, I do believe the book is a cover for something. And it's a cover for something that's much more serious to me than Biden's age and stage ever were. The reality that many in the media knew damn well that Biden was losing it, but they played it down because they wanted Trump to lose more. The original sin is not hiding Biden's age and stage, but hiding this preference. Yeah, I mean, I don't think he's wrong. But when you see people in the media coming out and admitting that they got the Joe Biden story wrong,

does it encourage you that they're finally being honest or does it anger you that they lied for so long? So give us a call. I wanna hear from you here on the Ben Mulroney show. Do things like this cause you to distrust the media? We've got Frank on the line. Frank, welcome to the show. Hey, Ben. How are you? I'm well, thanks. Listen, I don't trust any of the media. Now, when you look at the American media,

the Canadian media itself is a perfect example. The last election, you know, with, you know, Mark Carney becoming prime minister, the CBC has come out and admitted, oh, they've used this information to bring down Pierre Paulie. And when you listen to that, and knowing that the media was behind that, I mean, and the other media didn't report it, even they kept pushing that narrative that fits their agenda. There, you know, in this case here, the government giving them money fits their agenda because they're being paid. And I don't want to come across as a conspiracy theorist, but you'd have to be living under

a rock not to realize this stuff. It's all planted, one-sided. There's no unbiased opinion. And when you look for one, you're immediately chastised, even after the debate. Look what happened with Rebel News when they went to ask questions, all the other mainstream media were bad mouthing them, or got almost got into a fight for God's sake, because they didn't like the fact that you had quote unquote alternative media there. Yeah. What are you afraid of? You're afraid of telling the truth? Or you're afraid of that hand that's feeding you is going to take it away. So no,

I can't trust anything. Well, I hope you trust me, Frank. I'm just kidding. Thank you very much for calling in. Let's welcome Tom to the show. Tom, thanks so much for calling into the Ben Mulroney show. Hi, Ben. A very smart man once said, a liberal will burn his nation to the ground in order to rule over the ashes. And you're not going to ask who that smart man was? I think I know. And, and, and you're not gonna ask who that smart man was? I think I know. Okay. But anyways, so the reporters didn't care. They knew everybody knew that Joe was compromised. I mean, I knew five, six years ago when he first started.

Yeah. Everybody knew and they didn't care as long as they got the W. So that just kind of goes with what was saying, you know, they will compromise the country in order to get the W. That's all they cared about. Yeah, I think- And now they're trying to gaslight everybody into believing that they didn't know. I mean, it's pathetic. I just don't know where a journalistic acumen was if you couldn't look at Joe Biden

and see what everybody else saw. Like you're a trained journalist. You're one of the best in the business and you couldn't interpret his mumbling and stumbling and falling and forgetfulness as what we all did, which was cognitive decline. It doesn't make any sense to me, Tom. Everybody knew. Anybody with common sense knew. And everybody knew they were being lied to, especially now that they came out. I mean, it's proof positive. Well, I'm still gonna read the book

and I thank you very much for the call. Let's welcome Frank into the conversation. How's it going, Frank? Good morning. Good morning, Ben. I think Chris Kroll hit right on the spot here. We know that CNN, and he knew himself, because he was a great journalist on that program,

they're slanted towards the Democrat. We know that, the Democrats. And we know that Fox News is slanted towards the Democrat. We know that the Democrats and we know that Fox News is slid towards the Republicans. What, what these journalists do as part of the election campaign is they'll give you snippets of facts, whether it's it's Fox News or CNN snippets of facts and then inject their own opinions and things to slide it towards their, their preferred candidate.

We know everybody knows even Jack, uh, Jake Tapper did support Biden when it came to the presidential run. And I think what ended up happening, like Chris Cole said, is that after Biden lost, he probably got the green light from the bosses at CNN to make a little money on the book. And it's unfortunate he went to the extent that he did by in certain ways deceiving the public. Well, thank you very much for the call, Frank. And look, everyone's got a bias.

And the key for consumers of news is about being aware of the bias and filtering the news, filtering the bias out or accessory to that, going out and reading as much as you can from as many different sources as possible. And then from those things, finding a story that makes sense to you. Who do we have next? We've got Dan, Dan, welcome to Ben Mulroney show. Good morning, Ben. To answer your original question, it angers me. It angers me because it's so obvious and blatant if you follow the news or read through it or

look at multiple sources and just keep up with things. Or like me, you have decades of institutional memory up in my brain. They just don't bring up stories. And it biases the outcome. For example, in the Canadian election. How did we have an election and not the

single mainstream media mentioned that we went to prorogation over an eco-slush fund? The speaker, that was the man that had the papers presented to them and nothing was done about it. How does that happen and not a single BBC or mainstream media news outlet, except for you Ben, single BBC or mainstream media news outlet, except for you, Ben, uh, mentioned these things. Uh, it just wants me to bang my head against the table. And I've just become jaded and given up on the system. So where do you get your news now? It's from all sorts of sources. It's a podcast. People that special specialize in it. You

can listen to constitutional lawyers all day long on podcasts that actually sit through the house parliament bills being passed, the bill, T 63 and go in depth into it versus, constitutional lawyers all day long on podcasts that actually sit through the House Parliament bills being passed, the Bill C-63, and go in depth into it versus, you know, 13 seconds on pop show radio or CBC that doesn't mention it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you very much, Dan. I appreciate it.

Bill, welcome to the Ben Mulroney Show. How are you doing, Ben? I'm well, thanks. Good. You know what? Everyone is expressing the same frustrations. And you know what? There was a question you were asking, the phones went down, but there was a question you asked earlier in your program about what it would take to entice businesses to stay

in Canada. And the bottom line is it starts at the top. We have a liberal government that is so close to like a socialist, pandering to minorities, pandering to immigration, pandering to all the things that regular working Canadians care less about. Do you realize that he's putting a bill through parliament, right, that I heard it's gonna be coming up?

And you know what? You know the stand you take on the air? Yeah. You could be stopped from talking about things the way you are. Oh, Bill C63? Yeah. Yeah. We will be following that my friend. Hey Bill, I want to thank you very much for calling in, for joining the conversation.

We very much appreciate it. And like I said, Jake Tapper, many, many failings on this. That being said, I'm sure this is a ground earth shattering book, which I look forward to reading. The best high concept sci-fi rig of all in the universe is back. What the hell? How long was I out? Close airlock seven. Seth, please let me out. Ah! What the hell? Oh, sh**. How long was I out? Close airlock seven! Rick! Seth, please let me out!

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