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New book exposes how top Biden comms staffer was 'tip of the spear' covering up Biden's cognitive decline

  • Journalists claim that during Joe Biden's presidency, Jill Biden and top advisers controlled the country as his declining mental and physical health affected his job performance.
  • This situation arose amid Biden's confirmed metastatic prostate cancer and observable cognitive decline, which his inner circle allegedly tried to conceal from the public and press.
  • The book *Original Sin*, co-written by a CNN anchor and an Axios journalist, reveals that President Biden’s closest advisors pressured journalists to withhold reports on his cognitive health in order to safeguard his bid for re-election.
  • Tapper’s book draws on over 200 interviews and alleges that advisers including Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, and the first lady’s chief of staff coordinated efforts to block media coverage of Biden’s decline.
  • These revelations raise questions about who effectively led the administration during Biden’s decline and suggest the need for safeguards to ensure transparency and accountability in future presidencies.
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Gradually, a realization in Joe Biden's last years of office drew circles in his party: The US president is simply an old, confused man, no longer capable of his office. Biden's closest environment, however, refused this realization and held him in power. This picture draws a new book.

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Biden cover-up needs reckoning

Democrats, in their despond over President Donald Trump, are finally realizing they made a terrible mistake in covering for President Joe Biden's infirmity. Some might say the Biden cover-up is old news, but they denied the American people a better…

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NewsBusters broke the news in Washington, United States on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
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