Naomi Biden Blasts Jake Tapper Over Book Reporting Health Decline | EUROtoday

Naomi Biden, Joe Biden’s eldest granddaughter, slammed CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson on Monday over their upcoming e-book accusing the White House of a “cover-up” of the previous president’s reported well being decline.

“Just read a copy of this silly book, and if anyone is curious for a review from someone who lived it first-hand: this book is political fairy smut for the permanent, professional chattering class,” wrote Naomi Biden in a submit on X, previously Twitter.

“The ones who rarely enter the arena, but profit from the spectacle of those that do. Put simply, it amounts to a bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies written by irresponsible self promoting journalists out to make a quick buck.”

Naomi Biden additional accused Tapper and Thompson of leaning on nameless sources to push a “self-serving false narrative that absolves them of any responsibility for our current national nightmare,” a nod to President Donald Trump’s second time period.

Her criticism comes at some point after her grandfather’s workplace shared that the previous president had been recognized with prostate most cancers, information arriving simply previous to the discharge of Tapper and Thompson’s e-book “Original Sin” on Tuesday.

The e-book, which was teased months earlier than Biden’s most cancers announcement, is tied to questions in regards to the former president’s bodily and cognitive skills main as much as — and following — his disastrous June 2024 debate efficiency in opposition to Trump.

Tapper has beforehand responded to critics who’ve accused him of being a key media determine in serving to conceal Biden’s well being decline from the general public, slamming “false attacks” in opposition to him and standing by the reporting in his e-book.

Naomi Biden’s submit quoted an excerpt from an article by author Noah Berlatsky, who mentioned that Tapper and Thompson need to “be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books.”

“But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the WH, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on,” wrote Berlatsky in an article for Public Notice, journalist Aaron Rupar’s Substack.

Naomi Biden, whereas persevering with to defend her grandfather on X, wrote, “All of this at the expense of a man so completely good and honest that it is impossible for these people to ever understand the why or how of it all. There are real stories to be told and one day they will be. I suspect history will reward the truth.”

HuffPost has reached out to representatives for Tapper and Thompson for remark.