CNN’s Jake Tapper said Monday that the alleged cover-up of ex-President Joe Biden’s decline “may be worse than Watergate.” (Watch the video below.)
Tapper, co-author of the bestselling “Original Sin” about efforts by Biden’s allies to conceal his aging before and during the 2024 campaign, made the startling claim on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
Morgan sparked the exchange by referring to a book excerpt saying that “Joe Biden is not Richard Nixon. The hiding and the cover-up of his deterioration is not Watergate.”
“Um, I’m not entirely sure I agree, Jake, with that conclusion,” Morgan said.
“The next line is, ‘It is an entirely separate scandal,’” Tapper replied. “It is a scandal. It is without question and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways, because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn’t drinking.”
Nixon was implicated in the cover-up surrounding the 1972 burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex. He faced near-certain impeachment when he resigned from the presidency in 1974 ― the only commander in chief to do so in history.
“We don’t mean to exonerate,” Tapper clarified. “The only reason that we have the Watergate thing there is because we quote Archibald Cox, who was a Watergate investigator, talking about how powerful the presidency is and how presidents get surrounded by people who have a vested interest in keeping that president propped up. So that’s the only reason we invoke Watergate is just to make clear, like: It’s not Watergate. This is an entirely separate scandal. Maybe even worse.”