CNN's Jake Tapper DEFENDS Trump amid accusations president fell asleep during Cabinet meeting

[SocialDemocrat61]

CNN's Jake Tapper DEFENDS Trump amid accusations president fell asleep during Cabinet meeting
By ALEX HAMMER
CNN's Jake Tapper offered a surprise defense of Donald Trump after the president appeared to doze off several times during his final Cabinet meeting of the year on Tuesday.

Tapper, 56, broached the subject on Tuesday's episode of The Lead, landing some shots on the commander in chief while acknowledging that his age and late-night habits may have played a role.

'Now we should say if he was falling asleep, maybe he was a bit tired from all that time online last night where he was re-Truthing quite a bit between 7:20pm and midnight, 158 posts and reposts to be exact, ranging from criticisms of Democrats to criticisms of immigrants to conspiracy theories from Alex Jones,' he stated.
…
‘ Look, he’s 79 years old. I mean, like, this is not abnormal for a 79-year-old to be sleepy.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15349995/cnn-jake-tapper-donald-trump-asleep-cabinet-meeting.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. But Biden was an entirely different story, right, Jake?

[Scubamatt]

2. I cannot express enough disdain . . .

for Jake - "I think I'm a journalist" - Tapper. This guy led the the charge against Biden and is as corrupt a weasel as a cabinet member.

[GiqueCee]

4. Tapper's not a "journalist"...

... he just plays one on TV. And, truth be told, not very well.

[Takket]

3. i watched the clip. don't know how anyone can take that as a "defense" lol he's pretty clearly mocking Trump

[Cha]

5. Oh Fuck Off, Traitor Tapper. Not one

GD thing about the Neo Nazi Shit is "Normal".

Joe isn't the one who's "Sleepy".. Stupid Fuck.

And, yeah if the Deranged Asshole weren't Spewing Dangerous Lies on his "truth" Gaslight ... maybe just Maybe he could sleep at night and not during one of his cabinet from hell meetings.

The Stupid Burns with Tapper.

[tanyev]

6. What have they got on you, Tapper?

[haele]

22. Invites to yacht parties with the Rich and Famous? A good old-fashioned Honeypot?

Access interviews, "acceptance and respect", and Kewl Merch or "favors" ("I know the publisher, you don't need your agent..." ) as gifts?
Outright $$$$$..
And, he's just a jerk to begin with.

[Silent Type]

7. "Age and late night habits may have played a role . . ." doesn't really sound like a defense of trump.

[choie]

8. But you couldn't give some grace to President Biden, right jakey?

asshole.

[IzzaNuDay]

9. F off Jake!

wrote a whole %##^* book on president Biden and cognitive decline — but we the people are seeing real time cognitive decline with this dolt and all Jake can do is defend the behavior? Or is Jake’s head up
his ass again?

[obnoxiousdrunk]

10. I don't know

but doesn't sound like a defense to me.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

11. Gotta wonder if Jake Tapper is on a list!

Sure acts like it.

[Arazi]

12. Fuck this guy 🤬

[Keepthesoulalive]

13. Perhaps he will write a book about him while he is still president.

I will wait.

[Torchlight]

14. Didn't appear a defense at all to me. Satirical cuts and criticisms, yes.

I didn't read anything I could infer as defense of trump, or even justifications for him or rationalizations of his behavior.

[Silent Type]

17. Most didn't even read the article. They just reacted to title.

[W_HAMILTON]

24. And it looks like you didn't watch the clip.

When Tapper says it's not abnormal for a 79-year-old to be sleepy, he sure sounded genuine and not sarcastic.

[Silent Type]

28. The clip and article clearly indicate otherwise.

Did you see the part where Tapper pretended to be sleeping—

“CNN anchor Jake Tapper sarcastically mimicked President Donald Trump during Tuesday's broadcast of his show "The Lead" by appearing to fall asleep during the beginning of one of the segments.”

https://www.rawstory.com/jake-tapper-2674364268/

[W_HAMILTON]

33. Yes, he did -- and then he proceeded to genuinely say that it's not abnormal for a 79-year-old to be sleepy.

And it seemed like the sarcasm part only came because the apparent MAGA defender was saying especially stupid shit like "maybe Trump was just concentrating intently" or some bs like that.

[Captain Stern]

19. I'm surprised so many people missed that.

Tapper was clearly making fun of Trump. It wasn't even that subtle.

[MustLoveBeagles]

23. That's my take as well

I'm not a Tapper defender by any means but feel the criticism in this case is unjustified.

[Prairie Gates]

15. I should play a ten leg parlay this week!

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20844820

Of course, predicting that Jake Tapper would absolutely fall all over himself to kiss Trump's ass is long-hanging fruit, but still,,,

[BannonsLiver]

16. He is a tool of the regime, like all those who work in corporate media.

[hatrack]

18. Jake Fapper returning to his default position . . . .

. . . of hacky, reeking media whoredom.

[helpisontheway]

20. That must be the media's talking points today. Joe Scarborough said

the same thing this morning. Except they added that they are more concerned about what he was doing late at night (rage tweeting..well posting).

[Johonny]

21. This guy can fuck all the way off now

Clearly he's more pile of shill and shit than man. Holy fuck, dude. You wrote a whole book on the other guy. It just proves this guy ducks at his job.

[USS_Dauntless]

25. How much are you getting paid to simp for Herr Orange,

Mr. Tapper?

[Boo1]

26. He was clearly trolling

Trump.

[PCIntern]

27. I guess the check cleared the bank again this month

[uponit7771]

29. Tapper is in the Epstein files ... too

[Silent Type]

30. And there are how may citations to support that?

[uponit7771]

31. His actions, no one simps for MAGA like this unless there's something on them

[Silent Type]

32. I guess, if you think Tapper was covering for trump, which he was not. Not much for accusing people when one knows

it's untrue. We get enough of that from trumpsters.