When Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson started making the rounds promoting their new book, "Original Sin," there was the thought that maybe, just maybe, some press members had seen the light. Perhaps they had learned a valuable lesson from their intentional obfuscation of Joe Biden's clear mental and physical decline, which left Americans with eyes and ears pondering who was actually even running the country. 

Well, did they? Of course not. As predictable as the sun rising was the inevitable exposure of the grift surrounding Tapper and Thompson's sudden post-election revelation that a man who couldn't remember the names of his cabinet members and once called out for a deceased congresswoman during a speech might have been senile. Biden's recent cancer diagnosis, which was almost certainly known about for years prior, simply accelerated the timeline. 

You see, "Original Sin" was never about having a time of true introspection surrounding the press' role in willfully covering up Biden's dangerous decline. In fact, the role of journalists in the scandal is not really mentioned in the book, with the blame instead being put on a half dozen or so conveniently unnamed White House officials. That's not to say those officials weren't responsible, because they were, but to ignore the culpability of Tapper, CNN, and the rest of the mainstream media was a laughably transparent decision.

Sure enough, the pivot is already underway. Unwilling to lose their seats on the Washington cocktail circuit, Tapper and Thompson are shifting the narrative away from Biden toward, you guessed it, Donald Trump. As RedState reported, the former showed up on CNN to renew his vows with the left.

SEE: Jake Tapper's 'Predictable Pivot' From Biden Exposé Begins

Tapper later went on the BBC to parrot the same line, but just in case anyone thought there wasn't a broader strategy here, Thompson is now saying the same thing. During an interview on MSNBC, he sidestepped the scandal surrounding Biden to claim "we know even less about Donald Trump's health."

The point of "Original Sin" was never to hold anyone accountable for the worst presidential cover-up in American history, a cover-up that had incredibly damaging effects on the country. On the contrary, the book goes out of its way to hold no one accountable, granting anonymity like candy or just outright ignoring major players in the scandal. Karine Jean-Pierre, who spent almost three years repeatedly lying to the faces of the American public about Biden's condition, only garnered two passing mentions. 

So what was the point of the book? It allows Tapper, Thompson, and the rest of the press to claim they covered Biden's decline even though they waited until it no longer mattered politically, and it sets up the next four years of them claiming to have the credibility necessary to obsess over Trump's health. That's the grift, and regardless of what interesting confirmations came from "Original Sin," it was the plan all along.

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