Wall Street Journal slam Jake Tapper for criticising paper’s story on Biden’s cognitive decline

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has hit back at CNN anchor Jake Tapper after he criticised the paper’s reporting on Joe Biden.

On Sunday, the WSJ’s editorial board called out Tapper after the publication was criticised for a June 2024 article about the former president.

In the Wall Street Journal’s story about Biden, they reported that the then-president was displaying “signs of slipping”.

The paper’s criticism comes as Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson’s new book about Biden’s presidency is set to release.

Tapper and Thompson’s book, ‘Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again’, is releasing this Tuesday.

“The Wall Street Journal reported, in a detailed piece on June 4, 2024, that those who observed Mr. Biden in person were concerned about his decline,” the WSJ’s editorial board wrote.

“Mr. Tapper quoted a White House dismissal of the story, including a sneer that the Journal is ‘owned by News Corp, which is run by the Murdochs,’ as if that rebutted the story. He then interviewed a Democrat who dismissed it.”