Jake Tapper is gaslighting us (02-27-2025--Hour3)

[00:00:04] What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to 3 on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to thepeatcalendershow.com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button, get every episode for free, write to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support.

[00:00:28] I'm going to get into this new book by Jake Tapper. I mean, I'm not going to read it. It actually isn't even out yet. But, all right, I got two things to do regarding the topic from the last hour, which actually started in the first hour. And then we continued last hour. But I have one message and we have one phone call. So I'm going to take one phone call. This is the last phone call on the smartphones in classrooms topic. This is Carolyn. Welcome to the program.

[00:00:59] Carolyn. Hey, I'm going to rush out to you. I just wanted to say the cell phone sort of has become a human dependent pacifier and kind of like without it. Some can't function because most can't think on their own with it. Without it. Yeah, it definitely breeds a dependency. Right. OK, I'll let you go because I know you have other calls. Yeah, no, I appreciate it. And that's part of the problem is it's not just a dependency.

[00:01:29] Dependency tool for, you know, wasting time. Right. But for and you said thinking. Right. People, they don't. It's like, oh, I don't know the answer to something. So I'm just going to Google it. Right. I'm just going to look it up on my phone and it becomes so dependent to get answers to just everything. And while that can be beneficial, no doubt about it. But it also can be a crutch.

[00:01:55] You know, a crutch is a crutch can be beneficial if you can't walk correctly because, you know, you got a broken foot. A crutch is helpful. But after a while, you don't want to be you don't want to keep using it for the rest of your life. It's only there for the temporary assistance. Right. Bob says in my grade school days, we would get busted for an earphone connected to a transistor AM radio during the World Series.

[00:02:25] Smartphones in class. My how schools or teachers have evolved. Yeah. Well, that's. I mean, it's just it's just the technology. I remember reading a story about how when they started putting radios in cars, there was a big effort to ban them. Because they said they were a distraction. So every new technology like this poses problems and questions on their impact on society.

[00:02:55] And that's what we should not expect anything less of the smartphones and for anybody to be making the argument that there's no impact or it's minimal impact or it's necessary that the kids have them or whatever is to fly in the face of the data that now is very clear going the other direction on that. All right. So. We have a new book that's going to hit the shelves. I believe it's going to be sometime. Yeah, it's coming out May 20th.

[00:03:20] So mark your calendars for the release of Original Sin, President Biden's decline, its cover up and his disastrous choice to run again. It's being published by Penguin Press. And the author is Jake Tapper of CNN.

[00:03:49] Yeah. Jake Tapper, the truth teller extraordinaire, the one who was beating the drum for all of us to be. We made aware, but we wouldn't listen. Right. That Joe Biden was in cognitive decline. Jake Tapper kept telling us all the. Oh, wait a minute. No, he actually didn't. Yeah. So I have this story. This is from CNN and it's written by a potato. Brian Stelter. And he's yeah, he's a potato.

[00:04:19] Anyway, the day after this is Brian Stelter writing a piece about his colleague, Jake Tapper, which. Yeah. Like, that's not a good look. You're the media guy and you're writing a story about how your colleague, Jake Tapper, has a book where he's going to blame the Bidens for covering up Joe Biden's cognitive decline. That we all saw.

[00:04:47] But nobody at CNN could see, apparently, because they were, I guess, deceived. They were tricked. Ah, those wily Bidens. They were able to deceive and trick Tater and Jake Tapper. All those years. But now they're going to get to the bottom of this. I am reminded of the man in the hot dog costume promising to get to the bottom of whoever is responsible for this.

[00:05:15] But anyway, the day after Donald Trump, this is Tater's story. The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson decided to co-author a book about what had led the Democratic Party to defeat with a focus on former president Joe Biden. There's so much in this sentence. It's only one sentence. There's so much in it, though.

[00:05:43] So the day after the election, OK, this is when Tapper and Thompson hatched the plan. Oh, sorry. Come up with the idea. To cover up their cover. I mean, to get to the bottom of the cover up. I'm sure it's coincidental. Like, oh, my gosh, Joe Biden lost. Actually, Joe Biden didn't lose. Right. Kamala Harris lost. So the day after Harris loses, Tapper and Thompson hatched the plan. Sorry.

[00:06:13] Came up with the idea. To write a book about how this is all Joe Biden's fault. They say that's what it says to with a. So they come up with the idea to write a book about what led to the defeat with a focus on Joe Biden. So they have a they have a premise. They have a narrative already. The day after the election, they have the narrative.

[00:06:40] Now, far be it for me to suggest that a former press secretary for a Democrat congressman, Jake Tapper. Would. Would. I don't know. Want to advance a certain narrative in order to help the Democrat Party move past the debacle of the 2024 election cycle. Maybe. But I wouldn't suggest such a thing, but maybe some other people might. Brian Stelter goes on. By the way, it looks like a potato.

[00:07:09] And he goes on to say that the deeply sourced reporters. Reporters. No. It's just so ridiculous. Like he's fawning over Jake Tapper. The deeply sourced reporters. That's my Brian Stelter impression. The deeply sourced reporters. Found what they call a cover up of the former president's, quote, serious decline. Mm hmm.

[00:07:40] By all these other people. Because, you know, these are deeply sourced reporters because, see, that's what it takes. In order to get to the bottom of this massive cover up, this conspiracy, dare I call it. To prevent us all from knowing that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline for years. Right.

[00:08:01] There had to be some deeply sourced people that would only talk to Jake Tapper and or Alex Thompson. Because they're deeply sourced. The deeply sourced reporters. They got deep sources here, people. They're close to the Biden family. Is it? Would it be Kamala Harris? Would it be? Would it be anybody else in the White House?

[00:08:27] Look, if you're talking to anybody else in the White House that is going to tell you that the Bidens are to blame for covering all of this up, that then that means that those sources knew it, too. And they didn't tell anybody. Right. Or else how would they know? Because if they knew, if they're deeply sourced, that means they knew what was going on and they didn't tell anybody either. That would make them part of the conspiracy.

[00:08:57] That would make them part of the cover up. Right. It's not us. Right. It's not the deeply sourced sources, nor is it Jake Tapper or Alex Thompson. See, it's not the media. It's not us. Look, I'm Jake Tapper. I'm a serious news person. Right. I've been at CNN for a very long time. I will dress down anybody that says Joe Biden's in mental decline.

[00:09:24] And then after Kamala loses, after the coup that forced out Joe Biden because everybody could finally see that he was in cognitive decline. Now we're going to find out who's responsible for this. It's not me. It coincidentally and conveniently is only Joe Biden and his family and his top circle of AIDS. Right. In other words, the radioactive people. This is the people responsible.

[00:09:49] The only people responsible are the ones whose political service and careers are over. The ones who are done. Nobody wants them around anything except maybe like some Ukrainian gas company if you need some board of directors or something like that. But other than that, we don't need them anymore. So they're the only ones responsible. Right. Not me, Jake Tapper. Not me, Alex Thompson.

[00:10:15] Not the people that were paid to report on the White House that sat in the press briefings that attended the very few. But still, they were they occurred. Press availabilities with Joe Biden. Like Jake Tapper. And they couldn't tell. None of these people could tell. They were hoodwinked, I guess, by that wily Joe Biden. He was able to.

[00:10:44] Joe Biden was able to deceive them. Right. But not not you. You could see it when you just watch him in a speech. You could tell. You watch him after the speech and he can't find the way off the stage. Like you could tell. I could tell. I wasn't even in close proximity to the guy. I didn't get a sit down interview with him like Jake Tapper did.

[00:11:05] And if I had and he had dropped his cheat sheet, his note card full of all of the answers to the questions, I wouldn't have picked them up and handed them back to him like Jake Tapper did. But Jake Tapper was deceived, you see. He couldn't tell what was happening. Yeah. I'm not buying it either. Nor am I buying the book. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know, I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do, too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources.

[00:11:35] Why? Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with Ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place. So you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground dot news slash Pete. I put the link in the podcast description, too.

[00:11:57] I started using Ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. See for yourself. Check dot ground dot news slash Pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get 15 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature.

[00:12:23] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. All righty. So during the 2024 election before the coup, Jake Tapper on CNN blew up at Lara Trump or Laura Trump. I still don't know how to pronounce it because I always thought it was Laura Trump. But then.

[00:12:54] Donald Trump called her Lara, Lara. And so then I thought, oh, I've been mispronouncing it. So I started saying Lara Trump. But then somebody told me, oh, no, I think he was just like joking or something. So now I don't know. So I'm going to go with Laura Trump. OK, but Laura Trump or Lara, Lara, Lara. Let me go with Lara. Lara Trump. She is on with Jake Tapper and he has her come on.

[00:13:23] I think specifically to to blindside her with this accusation that she's mocking Joe Biden's stutter. Did you know Joe Biden had a stutter? Did you know that he beat it as a child? But then apparently it came back and it not constantly. It only came back every time Joe Biden appeared to show cognitive decline. And then that was the stutter. That's remember that when everybody was talking about the stutter. It's just a stutter.

[00:13:51] And we all knew it wasn't a stutter. A stutter doesn't make you say stupid things without a stutter. That's not what a stutter does. OK, so she is at some Republican women's event and she's on stage with a couple of other people and they're talking and she makes a joke. And so he has her on the show. And he plays this clip and listen to the question. And just the sneering condescension.

[00:14:22] That this narcissistic jerk throws at her in an attempt to shame her. Right. For mocking a man with a stutter. Here it is. Every time he comes on stage or they turn to him, I'm like, Joe, can you get it out? Let's get the words out, Joe. You kind of feel bad for him. How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that?

[00:14:47] First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable. You are you are no. It's so amazing. It's so amazing to me that I'm trying to figure out an answer. A cognitive decline. You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was I think that you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter.

[00:15:15] And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. But I would think that somebody in the Trump family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses. Diagnosing politicians from afar. Plenty of people have diagnosed your father from afar. And I'm sure it offends you, your father-in-law from afar. I'm sure it offends you. You don't have any standing to say. I'm not diagnosing him.

[00:15:39] What I'm saying, Jake, is that we can clearly see that Joe Biden is struggling a few times on stage. And it's very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world. That is all I'm saying. I genuinely feel sorry for Joe Biden. I appreciate it. And then he shuts her down. So he turns down her microphone and then he shuts her down. And he's pushing back the whole time. How dare you suggest cognitive decline? Oh, okay. Uh-huh. All right. Sure. He's just like completely dismissing it.

[00:16:10] Wanting to chalk it up as her mocking a stutter when in fact she's talking about his cognitive decline. And when she says it, he just loses it. By the way, the people that said that very thing about Donald Trump said it all over CNN airwaves. And Jake Tapper never challenged them on any of that stuff. CNN never challenged people when they said, I think, I think Donald Trump is in cognitive decline.

[00:16:39] Look at the way he's standing. He's leaning forward on the balls of his feet. And that's indicative of this type of syndrome that occurs in the elderly. And what like people were making all of these diagnoses all over the place. And nobody ever stood up to those diagnoses. And it's not a diagnosis. Anybody who has had anybody in their life who has gotten older, become elderly, and you see the physical decline, I can see it.

[00:17:08] I don't need to be a doctor to see with my own eyes physical frailty or cognitive decline. Particularly for a man who has spent the last 7,000 years in public service. Right? Joe Biden has been a fixture in American politics longer than I have been alive.

[00:17:33] And if you play any clip of Joe Biden from his first presidential run in the 1980 election, I think it was, or maybe 84, when he was lying up and down and got caught plagiarizing and had to drop out of that race, you do any kind of comparison. Listen, it is very, very clear to anybody with eyes and a willingness to see.

[00:17:58] And that's how Jake Tapper reacted when it was suggested that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline. But now, Jake Tapper wants me to believe, and you to believe, and all of America to believe, that he's going to get to the bottom in his book. He's going to get to the bottom of the cover-up of Joe Biden's mental decline. That he's going to be the one to tell this story.

[00:18:25] You, who had eyes to see but refused to do so. Jake Tapper. And attacked anybody who pointed this out. You going to apologize to everybody for that? You going to apologize to Lara Trump? I'm not holding my breath. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain?

[00:18:54] And Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big ol' reunion, Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you, where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. Nestled within the breathtaking 14,000 acres of the Pisgah National Forest, their cabins offer a serene escape in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Centrally located between Asheville and the entrance of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park,

[00:19:23] it's the perfect balance of seclusion and proximity to all the local attractions. With hot tubs, fireplaces, air conditioning, smart TVs, Wi-Fi, grills, outdoor tables, and your own private covered porch, choose from 13 cabins, 6 cottages, 2 villas, and a great lodge with 11 king-sized bedrooms, Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you for any occasion. And they have pet-friendly accommodations.

[00:19:50] Call or text 828-367-7068. Or check out all there is to offer at cabinsofashville.com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. Got a message here from Russ regarding the Jake Tapper book. He says, I feel like Rush or another vaunted WBT host has pointed out how many media personalities keep a lid on stories that could sway elections

[00:20:16] only to write a book after there's nothing we can do with that knowledge. That is correct. Rush Limbaugh used to talk about this. And the first time I heard him mention it, I started paying more attention to it. And he was right. Like, you see it happen so many times. After the election's over, now the story can be told.

[00:20:39] But what makes this one even more egregious is that it's Jake Tapper who spent four years, you know, arguing with people, denigrating people, yelling at them, dismissing them, anybody that would suggest that Joe Biden was suffering from cognitive decline. In fact, here is a clip. It's a montage. It starts off with Jake Tapper interviewing J.D. Vance.

[00:21:08] You guys talked about the Russia hoax nonstop. The FBI was investigating it. The FBI was investigating it. So we covered them. And so you took the words of unnamed FBI agents and put them on your network as if they were the gospel truth. You did it again and again. A viewer of your network would have believed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin conspired in 2016. No. That was totally and preposterously false. No. Well, that's what you just said is false.

[00:21:33] President Trump has gone to, quote, extraordinary lengths to keep specifics about his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin secret, even keeping them from top members of his own administration. Take a listen to how President Trump responded Saturday night when asked directly if he has ever worked for Russia. I think it's the most insulting thing I've ever been asked. I think it's the most insulting article I've ever had written. The president did not directly answer the question.

[00:21:59] It's a stunning turn of events. Do you think the president of the United States ever worked on behalf of the Russians against American interests? Yeah. Like that's the stuff that Jake Tapper peddled. All of these things that he could talk about. I'm just asking questions here. Right. All of these things that he could throw out there against Donald Trump were all perfectly fine.

[00:22:29] Right. But how dare you even suggest that Joe Biden might be suffering from cognitive decline? Here's a montage put together by Tom Elliott at Graby and Media. How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that? It's very clearly a cognitive decline. OK. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable. You are you are no. I can't. This is so amazing.

[00:22:57] It's so amazing to me that that try and figure out an answer. Cognitive decline. Biden embraces his stutter talking about it while Trump mocks it, exaggerates it, belittles it. He's sharp physically. I mean, mentally. Yeah. I think the question is physically. Right. Right. Or so. Right. Right. And the guy who's his chief opponent is only three or four years younger than him. I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness, ability to lead of those supporting Biden. You said, quote, shame on all of you, pretending everything is OK. You're leading us and him into a disaster.

[00:23:26] Do you worry that you damaged him at all? I don't doubt that you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today and maybe even publicly some of them because they like you personally. But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from your Democratic colleagues. I mean, just like, what is he thinking? Exercise in narcissism. I mean, false claims to The Wall Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's 81 and his memory, you know, it doesn't seem great.

[00:23:55] It's not horrible. But I don't understand the outrage. Well, behind closed doors, Biden shows signs of slipping. Unquote. The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp, which is run by the Murdochs. Beyond the headline, there is some critical nuance here. The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the only one going on the record. They do note in the article that most of the criticism comes from Republicans.

[00:24:19] Have you heard any concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeming a little slower? No. The Russians are trying to do to make us and the public not trust our election integrity. Joe Biden has dimension, all this stuff. Right. We're covered the obvious fact that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline. And now he has a book.

[00:24:46] President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Penguin Press is the publisher. It put out a statement heralding the book. What you will learn makes President Biden's decision to run for re-election seem shockingly narcissistic, self-delusional and reckless. A desperate bet that went bust and part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents.

[00:25:14] Biden, his family and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could be Trump again. They lied to themselves, allies and the public about his condition and limitations. That's the press release from the publisher. That is precisely what people have been saying for five years about Joe Biden. And it's the thing that prompted the ire of Jake Tapper, who now apparently is going to write a book to tell us all that we were right. And he was wrong.

[00:25:43] But he's not going to say he was wrong. Right. Tapper, you'll recall, was the freaking moderator at that debate. Tapper and Thompson write in their book, quote, what the world saw, Joe Biden's one and only debate was not an anomaly. It was not a cold. It was not someone who was under or over prepared. It was not someone who was just a little tired. It was the natural result of an 81 year old man whose faculties had been diminishing for years.

[00:26:14] Who's to blame? Well, not me, says Jake Tapper. However, Biden, his family and his team let their self-interest and fear of another Trump term justify trying to put an at times addled old man in the Oval Office for four more years. What was the extent of it? Was it a cover up? Was it a conspiracy? We will let the facts speak for themselves. See, again, keep in mind. Biden.

[00:26:44] The Biden family. The close circle that were that were named in that Wall Street Journal piece that Jake Tapper just mocked and dismissed and said, oh, we can't really trust them. That's Fox News Corp. Right. The same people that were identified as the ones that created the bubble around Joe Biden and stiff armed anybody from getting close to him so as to protect the precious. Right. To keep the lid on it.

[00:27:13] Make sure Joe Biden didn't have any kind of interactions with people who might say, oh, gosh, he's incognitive decline. Right. We're supposed to believe now that the blame is only on them. And that they tricked Jake Tapper. That Jake Tapper didn't know any of this. He couldn't see with his own eyes. Right. And why? Because those people are now politically expendable. They are done. Everyone in the Democrat Party knows it.

[00:27:42] That whole crowd is done. And so now they can go under the bus. They're to blame. Not us. We were tricked, too. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life. And our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with creative video. Started in 1997 in Mint Hill, North Carolina.

[00:28:11] It was the first company to provide this valuable service. Converting images, photos, and videos into high-quality produced slideshows, videos, and albums. The trusted, talented, and dedicated team at Creative Video will go over all of the details with you to create a perfect project. Satisfaction guaranteed. Drop them off in person or mail them. They'll be ready in a week or two. Memorial videos for your loved ones. Videos for rehearsal dinners, weddings, graduations, Christmas, family vacations, birthdays, or just your family stories.

[00:28:40] All told through images. That's what your photos and videos are. They are your life. Told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you. And they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creativevideo.com. Jake Tapper with a book to tell us why he's not to blame. The hubris of these people, right?

[00:29:06] To now get out there with a straight face and pitch to me a book about a thing that I said was occurring and you said was occurring, but they said was not. And that we are crazy for saying it. And now you're going to come and tell me I should buy your book to read what I identified, you identify, but Jake Tapper couldn't. Being that close, right?

[00:29:36] Being that close to the throne of power and sniffing on it as he has done for so long. The key is that he's not to blame. That's what the book is about. I don't even think he cares if anybody buys the book. The point is, I mean, well, he is going to care. He would very much prefer a lot of people buy the book. Sure, of course. But this is retconning.

[00:30:02] They're going to throw the Bidens under the bus and they're going to absolve themselves of any culpability in what is likely the greatest presidential scandal in American history. And it's why the trust in the media is so low. It's why nobody believes them. Gallup had a new poll out. They released some latest numbers and it's trusted media has never been lower. It's at a historical low. And this is why.

[00:30:30] Alex Thompson from Axios, who's also a CNN contributor, actually had an earlier book deal to write about Biden's presidency. His original publisher, Simon & Schuster, withdrew the contract in 2023. Politico called it a further reflection of the soft market for books about Joe Biden. It's like, yeah, people don't really want to read it. I do.

[00:31:00] I do believe that. But. The book industry perceptions now have apparently changed after Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris. And even more so after Harris lost to Trump. Tapper and Thompson decided to zoom in on what they dub Biden's original sin, which was his decision to run for a second term. That's the sin. That's the original sin. It's not his running for the first term.

[00:31:28] That wasn't that wasn't the original sin. Let me jump over to Ace of Spades. Ace comments dot M U dot N U. I don't understand why the website is titled that, but Ace of Spades. I started reading him like, I don't know, back in like 2008 or something. And. Here's what he calls this.

[00:31:55] Tapper's book is an attempt to save the media from the public's accurate assessment that the media covered up Biden's dementia to Reagan election. His searing investigation will put the blame squarely on Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Frank Biden and the five or six top Biden aides. None of these people have any future in politics. They were part of a failed and fraudulent presidency.

[00:32:24] The Democrat Party will not be making use of their services in the future. Like you are done. We are done with you. Bye bye. And so you're going to take the fall for all of this, which really is kind of poetic justice. Right.

[00:32:43] For for Joe Biden, who spent his entire career trying to convince us all that his was a career of note, that his was a legacy. Worth honoring. And this is how he will be remembered. Right. Right. As the venal and completely average intellect. And corrupt. person that he was.

[00:33:13] So that means now it's safe for what Ace of Spades calls fake Jake. Tapper. Fake Jake. Fake Jake to dump all responsibility for the cover up on these people and them alone. The media will be protected from scrutiny. Fake Jake will regale us with stories of brave journalists who desperately wanted to report the truth, but were spun up with stories about Joe's childhood stutter.

[00:33:36] The courageous truth tellers were completely deceived by this perfect Mephistopheles level deception. You see, they tried their best. But Joe Biden's famously competent messaging machine just snowed them all over. Right. Right.

[00:33:55] Even Democrat officials like Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer and all the other Democrat congressmen who covered this up and lied to the public about Biden winning go tournaments when the cameras weren't looking will be spared. You see, Biden threatened them. He had his doctor explained to them about his phantom childhood stutter. So they, too, were all innocent. In fact, if they were guilty of anything, it was trusting too much.

[00:34:25] See, that's the story that you're going to get told. And in the old days, that would have been enough. That would have set the narrative. That would have completed the loop. Right. On the cover up. But these ain't the old days anymore. And I don't think Jake Tapper has gotten the memo. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast.

[00:34:56] So if you'd like, please support them, too. And tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecalendershow.com. Again, thank you so much for listening. And don't break anything while I'm gone.