CNN’s Jake Tapper has begun his book tour that dives into former President Joe Biden’s decline and the attempt to cover it up. After a Wednesday appearance on CNN News Central, one media person in particular came away with a battered reputation: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel. Although Tapper did not indict Kimmel, Kimmel’s reaction to the controversy in question was enough for him to indict himself.
The genesis of Kimmel’s cover-up was a June 2024 Los Angeles fundraiser for Biden that featured him, actor George Clooney, and former President Barack Obama. After Tapper and host John Berman recalled Biden forgetting who Clooney was, despite knowing each other for more than two decades, Berman moved on to another part of that evening’s proceedings, “You bring up President Obama because there was a moment at that fundraiser, and that fundraiser really was…