Tapper tells 'Morning Joe' hosts that Biden made targeted effort to convince Scarborough he was fit

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Tapper tells 'Morning Joe' hosts that Biden made targeted effort to convince Scarborough he was fit for office

Hanna Panreck By Hanna Panreck Fox News
Published May 21, 2025 1:00pm EDT

CNN's Jake Tapper told MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday that former President Joe Biden made a targeted effort to sell the MSNBC host on his re-election campaign during a conversation on "Morning Joe."

Tapper described Biden to Scarborough as "a frequent viewer of the show," and then referenced a 2023 Washington Post column by David Ignatius, where the columnist wrote that the former president should not run for re-election. "And then [Ignatius] came on this show and you guys had a robust conversation about this," Tapper said, noting the MSNBC host agreed at the time that there were concerns about the former president running for re-election but also that there were no alternatives.

Tapper and Alex Thompson, an Axios reporter, joined "Morning Joe" to discuss their new book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," which details the former president's decision to run again and the cover-up of his decline while in office.

"Joe Biden saw that. Joe Biden said to staffers that he wanted to convince you that you were wrong, and he focused on you like you were a constituency, like you were farmers in Iowa, like you were the Kiwanis Clubs in New Hampshire. And he made sure that you thought differently," Tapper told Scarborough.

Scarborough said he must have spoken to Biden on his "good days" as MSNBC's Willie Geist said that it was very possible Scarborough got to see the former president when he was well-rested and prepared.

"It was a campaign, though, for Joe, it was a campaign. The Biden people wanted to make sure that Joe [Scarborough] saw Biden at his best," Tapper added.

Tapper asked the MSNBC host what time of day he saw Biden, and Scarborough said it was a lunch meeting.

"There you go," Tapper responded. "Middle of the day."

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[jafo2010]

It's a coin toss, which one is the dumber fool:

Jake Tapper    or    Joe Scarborough

I say it is a tie, and there is no place for people like this in the media who portend to report the truth, when they could not come up with the first letter of the word!

[DCPatriot]

It's a coin toss, which one is the dumber fool:

Jake Tapper    or    Joe Scarborough

I say it is a tie, and there is no place for people like this in the media who portend to report the truth, when they could not come up with the first letter of the word!

IMO, Joe Scarborough has been a paid shill by the CIA, as is Rachel Maddow.

There is absolutely no way they are that ignorant or ill-informed of verifiable facts all these years.