YORK COLUMN: Who Was 'Shocked' by Joe Biden's Infirmity?
- Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson published Original Sin in May 2025, chronicling President Biden's cognitive decline and alleged cover-up.
- The book reveals First Lady Jill Biden, nicknamed Dr. B, fiercely defended Joe Biden’s mental fitness and influenced his 2024 reelection campaign amid internal White House tensions.
- Following Biden’s poor debate performance in June 2024, Jill and family pressured him to continue running while questioning staff preparations, intensifying intra-party conflicts.
- During April-May 2024, Tapper’s CNN show, The Lead, averaged 525,000 viewers, down 25% year-over-year, marking historic lows and sparking criticism that his book promotion alienated core audiences.
- The book has drawn sharp left-wing criticism and reflects broader tensions around Biden’s condition, while Tapper’s media prominence contrasts with CNN’s audience decline.
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YORK COLUMN: Who was 'shocked' by Joe Biden's infirmity?
Here is a basic question about “Original Sin,” the new book detailing the White House’s attempt to hide former President Joe Biden’s in-plain-sight mental and physical decline: Why is it having such an impact? Sure, the subject — an intermittently…
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Despite being front and center in headlines over his tell-all book Original Sin—a chronicle of President Joe Biden’s mental decline and the alleged internal cover-up—Jake Tapper’s primetime show The Lead has hit historic lows. And not just relatively low. We’re talking lowest viewership in nearly a decade, according to recently released Nielsen data. From April 28 through May 25, The Lead with Jake Tapper averaged just 525,000 total viewers, dow…
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Allusions are stirring and rumors abound about Jill Biden, the former first lady. Aides to Joe Biden are being called to testify on Capitol Hill about accusations of a “cover-up” regarding the former president’s cognitive decline — who knew and when did they know it? It is becoming increasingly clear that Jill Biden had substantive influence over her husband. Did the former president’s wife merely acquiesce to her husband running for re-election…
(SeaPRwire) – How Washington Became a Gerontocracy It seems like we haven’t heard from Joe Biden in a while, doesn’t it? Yet, he’s back in the headlines – not for a triumphant return, but for all the wrong reasons. The former US president has once again found himself in the national spotlight due to a series of events that are both revealing and deeply disturbing. It all started when Axios released the full recording of Biden’s infamous intervie…
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