2025 lookback: Media's credibility fractures again after Biden mental decline exposed

The media faced another reckoning in 2025 when details of former President Joe Biden’s apparent mental decline in office, and the cover-up orchestrated by his team, were revealed after years of pushback on the notion he wasn’t fit for office. 

CNN anchor Jake Tapper and journalist Alex Thompson co-wrote "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," an account of the cover-up that features high-level Democratic sources. The book, which was released in May...