Jake Tapper Admits Media Took Orders From Democrats for Decades [WATCH]

CNN anchor Jake Tapper acknowledged during recent interviews that the national press has, for years, functioned in service of the Democratic Party and failed to properly report on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline while in office.

Tapper’s remarks came during a conversation on “The Remnant” podcast with Jonah Goldberg on Thursday, where the two discussed perceived double standards in the media’s treatment of political figures based on party affiliation.

Goldberg argued that the press would have aggressively covered Biden’s mental decline if he had been a Republican or if President Donald Trump had represented a more establishment brand of conservatism.

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“The one group of people who believe Biden’s ‘existential threat to democracy’ stuff about Trump was a big chunk of the D.C. press corps,” Goldberg said.

Tapper responded, “I don’t disagree with your general premise. And I think it’s unfortunate that a lot of the press criticism and journalism — and most known journalism professors out there — have been saying since the Bush years that it is the responsibility of journalists to basically take up the Democratic cause — capital D, not small-d — the Democratic Party cause. And I think that’s unfortunate. I don’t doubt that there were a lot of people who viewed the world that way.”

Tapper noted that while he agreed with Goldberg’s premise, he believed that the issue went beyond partisanship, pointing to a culture of “groupthink” and professional “intimidation” that shaped newsroom behavior during Biden’s presidency.

“I think it’s probably more complicated than partisanship,” Tapper said.

“We’re people too, journalists — and I think there’s probably a lot of groupthink. I think there’s probably a lot of intimidation.”

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He added, “If this had been, you know, Joe Biden versus Mitt Romney, maybe the press corps would have been tougher. But … I also think the press corps was pretty unfair to Mitt Romney in 2012. So I don’t know that premise to be correct … it’s all very complicated.”

Tapper expanded on the subject the following day during an appearance on “Open To Debate,” where he claimed he did not vote for either Biden or Trump and stated, “I can’t stand either party.”

Tapper rejected the idea that his own reporting was shaped by personal political bias.

Instead, he admitted he was misled by Democratic officials who sought to conceal Biden’s deteriorating condition.

“What was shaping my reporting was, I think, the fact that, like, there were just a lot of people lying to us,” Tapper said.

“And I should have just been more skeptical about the fact that they were lying to us. But there were just so many people on the inside, and so many Democratic legislators, and so many members of the cabinet and everything, that were just completely gaslighting the country.”

Tapper has been promoting his new book Original Sin, which documents the decline of Joe Biden during his time in office and the broader effort within the Democratic Party to cover it up.

The book has drawn attention for its candid acknowledgments of failures in the press, particularly Tapper’s own role in underreporting the issue.

He has faced criticism for writing the book despite having overlooked many of the very issues it now addresses.

In promotional interviews, Tapper has described his reflection on the subject as an exercise in “humility,” admitting that his previous reporting did not go far enough in exposing Biden’s health and fitness for office.

The comments mark a rare admission from a high-profile cable news figure about partisan bias in political journalism and the consequences of media groupthink.

Tapper’s acknowledgment is likely to add to growing scrutiny of how major news outlets covered the Biden presidency and what role ideological leanings played in shaping the public narrative.

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