US EditionOriginal Sin book review: How we were fools to be fooled by Joe Biden’s people
- Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson released the book 'Original Sin' on May 20, 2025, detailing President Biden's decline and 2024 election failures.
- The book attributes Biden's cognitive and physical decline, including aggressive prostate cancer, and inner circle cover-ups as key causes for the election loss.
- Supporting details describe Biden's reduced schedule, aides scripting meetings, altered videos, and concerns from Democrats and Cabinet officials about his fitness.
- The authors interviewed around 200 insiders, including Democratic lawmakers and campaign operatives, and quote Mark Warner saying Biden "can't manage these competing interests."
- The book suggests Biden's decision to seek re-election triggered political fallout enabling Trump's return and calls for Democratic reflection on age and loyalty issues.
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Joe Biden was the perfect deep state president
For those of us who were awake to the reality of former President Joe Biden’s infirmities, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book Original Sin is more an affirmation than a revelation. Efforts to cover up a president’s physical and mental decline have a long and ignominious tradition. Woodrow Wilson famously had a stroke and was largely incapacitated for his last year in office. The reality of Franklin Roosevelt’s health was kept secret during…
Original Sin book review: How we were fools to be fooled by Joe Biden’s people
Since this book was written we have learned Joe Biden has prostate cancer. The sad news was greeted with sympathy from all sides of the political divide, including Donald Trump. That would have been the response if, as president, Biden had declared in 2023 that he wasn’t going to run again on the basis of his age; there would have been lots of love, as there was at the start of George Clooney’s celebrated open letter to Biden in The New York Tim…
From the Left: CBS Delivers Tepid First Network Interview for Authors of Biden Book
Tuesday’s CBS Mornings scored the first broadcast network interview for CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson as part of release day for their already bestselling book Original Sin about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline before and during his presidency. While there were attempts made to hold the legacy media to account, it never panned out and, even though some questions came off as tough, it was largely waged on friendly terms for …
Will the Democrats learn anything from the Biden decline cover-up?
As Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson kicked off the promo tour for Original Sin, their explosive new book exposing the far-reaching cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline during his final years in the White House, some tragic news broke regarding the former president’s health. Biden had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has already spread to his bones. The revelation naturally generated sympathy. But it also gave rise to an ar…
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