'You lost all credibility': Dem insider punches hole in Tapper's Biden book
During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Democratic National Committee Chair and Jamie Harrison disputed comments attributed to him in CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson's controversial book about former President Joe Biden.
After discussing the internal warfare currently in play within the DNC, "The Weekend" co-host Eugene Daniels asked Harrison about the book "Original Sin," and noted that Thompson appeared on the show on Saturday.
That was when the ex-DNC chair went off.
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"It says that you had an interaction with President Biden where he didn't recognize you and you said to some other Democrat that wasn't good, right? I heard that you said this didn't happen, so did it happen or not?" Daniels prompted his guest.
"It was a bald-faced lie," Harrison shot back. "I don't know where the hell they got that from and I've told that to Alex. That is a bald-faced lie, and it frankly is pissing me off, excuse my language, that they continue to push it and say it."
"I have told them –– you know, unless I need to get a cognitive test, and I just totally forget all these things, but I'm, you know, I'm 49, but maybe I'll go to my doctor and get a check-up," he continued. "So for me it provides me all of what I need to know about what this book is about."
"I've seen similar with [Biden adviser] Jake Sullivan saying that the situation that they talk about him did not happen.," he added before recalling, "I know in terms of the [George] Clooney situation, I mean, there are some things that I can also share about that Clooney situation. You know, that part where they show Barack Obama holding on to Joe Biden's arm and leading him off right in front of us? I went to my wife when I saw that that or heard about that in the book, and I said, 'Wasn't that where those three young, it was three young white men who was standing up yelling at Joe Biden about Palestine."
"They were protesting right up front, and he was trying to listen to what they were saying and Obama grabbed his arm and pulled him away," he added. "My wife said, 'Yeah, I remember that, we were sitting right there in the audience.'"
"But that book lost all credibility when they put my name in it for something that did not happen," he accused. "And then they continue to double down on that particular story."
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