Charlamagne Tha God Accuses Jake Tapper of Being Complicit

Influential radio host Charlamagne Tha God claimed that CNN and anchor Jake Tapper played a role in hiding former President Joe Biden’s health decline from the public. 

Fox News Digital reports the critique coincides with the release of Tapper’s book, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, on May 20, 2025. Tapper acknowledges in the book that he underreported Biden’s health issues, but Charlamagne and others remain critical.

“I’m interested in the Biden stuff because Jake Tapper’s book, Original Sin, came out today, and I’m looking forward to reading it. It talks about how Biden’s inner circle hid his mental decline and health diagnosis,” Charlamagne said on his show. He speculated that Biden’s recent Stage 4 prostate cancer announcement was timed to preempt the book’s revelations, stating, “I think they announced Biden’s prostate diagnosis to get ahead of that book.”

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While eager to read Original Sin, Charlamagne questioned Tapper’s accountability. “I want to see if people like Jake Tapper hold themselves and networks like CNN accountable for what they didn’t report,” he said. “They’re all complicit in not calling a thing a thing regarding President Biden’s health.”

Morgyn Wood, the Black Information Network’s White House correspondent, supported Charlamagne’s skepticism, noting, “Stage 4? You’re not wrong. To find out about Stage 4 now, yeah, somebody didn’t speak up earlier.”

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former Biden COVID advisor and oncologist, stated on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on May 19, 2025, that Biden likely had cancer since at least the start of his presidency in 2021. “He had it while he was president,” Emanuel said. “He probably had it at the start of his presidency. I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.”