Biden Aides Floated Wheelchair Use in Second Term, Book by Tapper and Thompson Says

A Bridge Too Far

A review of Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, 352 Pages, Penguin Random House (May 2025)The befuddled old man who stumbled so pitifully through his 2024 debate with Donald Trump that he was forced to withdraw from the presidential race was not unfamiliar to those around him. As Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson demonstrate in Original Sin: President Biden’s…

Jake Tapper's 'Original Sin': Blaming Democrats for Republicans' choices

Let me cut to the chase. Even if there were a “cover up” of the previous president’s infirmity, that’s not why Donald Trump won. Yet that is the allegation hiding in the subtext of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book. The sin in Original Sin is evidently the sin of pride, as in: Joe Biden was just too damn proud to let go of power. And due to his sinfulness, our democracy is now on the brink of collapse. Most of the attention seems to be on…

The Cover-up of the cover-up: Our review of "Original Sin" by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson

Don't buy this. I read it so you don't have to. Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson is the story of the cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline and his decision to run for reelection. I can’t tell you what’s a lie, but I can tell you that it’s not the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This book is a cover-up. It’s the cover-up of the cover-up. The very idea that someone like Jake Tapper is eligible to put his name on a …

Biden’s Age Wasn’t a Cover-Up. It Was Observable Fact.

The story about the former president getting old is getting old.

Jake Tapper says the media didn't cover up Biden's 'Original Sin': 'We were just lied to'

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book has already generated a national debate about whether the White House deceived the public about the president’s cognitive state and how Biden’s late exit from the race undermined the Democratic Party’s chances of stopping Trump.

Jake Tapper’s Book on Biden: ‘Original Sin’ Bombshells

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson wrote about the former president's mental and physical decline in their book, 'Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.'