How Groupthink Protected Biden and Reelected Trump

Jon Stewart, Jon Favreau & Jon Lovett on Political Bubbles & Taking on Trump | The Weekly Show

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
 
May 22, 2025  The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | FULL Episodes
As Democrats seek to reestablish their credibility, Jon is joined by Crooked Media founders and "Pod Save America" hosts Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett. Together, they dissect the political and media environment that shields established leaders from accountability, debate how Democrats should position themselves during Trump's second term, and explore what qualities might help future Democratic candidates break through.

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How Groupthink Protected Biden and Reelected Trump | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show
May 21, 2025  The Ezra Klein Show
This episode is about a seemingly simple question: Was there a Joe Biden cover-up?

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book argues there was. “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” details how Biden’s top advisers closed the circle around him and tried to conceal the extent of his decline.

But I think the story here is more complicated. If Biden’s top advisers were misleading the public, I think they were also lying to themselves. And if there was a cover-up, it had a lot of holes; voters had been telling pollsters they were worried about Biden’s age for years.

So I wanted to have Tapper on the show to talk about the discoveries in his book, but also about some of the bigger questions raised by the Democratic Party’s decision to almost renominate Biden: How do you see what is right in front of your eyes? How do you avoid letting loyalty to a person or a party blind you?

0:00 Introduction
3:05 The Hur report
14:12 Performing vs. “performing” the presidency
24:35 Who was involved?
35:00 The disastrous debate
45:45 What the Democrats were thinking
57:40 What made Biden change his mind? 
1:03:38 Lessons
1:18:39 Book recommendations

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