New book offers devastating look at Biden’s decline

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New book offers devastating look at Biden’s decline

A rapidly declining former President Joe Biden was, at best, “a senior member of the board,” while five top aides saw to the actual running of the country, a new book penned by two top Washington journalists asserts.

The book “Original Sin‚” by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson draws on hundreds of interviews, and makes more than a few comparisons to William Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” which also unsparingly chronicled the decline of an aging ruler, The Atlantic’s

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The former president’s critics have long asserted that White House aides, abetted by the national press, glossed over Biden’s acuity.

But, according to the book, it may have begun long before the 2024 campaign cycle.

And if that’s the case, “Americans unwittingly voted for and were then led by a president who was not up to the job, a state of affairs that certain among the Biden faithful seemed committed to concealing,” Austin Harper wrote.

Both Tapper and Thompson ” studiously avoid saying this outright; to their credit, they do little editorializing,” Austin Harper continued. “The book is written not unlike an autopsy report, describing a gruesome political car ****** in dispassionate, clinical detail. The American people, however, must confront the possibility that the book raises: that we may not have had a president capable of discharging the office since Barack Obama left the White House in 2017.”

The book includes several such scenes, including aides equipping Biden with a teleprompter in a 2020 interview with a local news outlet, and the nearly unusable footage gleaned from Biden’s attempts to talk to voters over Zoom.

“Edited, the videos likely appeared fine to viewers, Biden no worse than any other senior on Zoom. But two of the Democrats who were involved in the films’ production together were dumbfounded. ‘I didn’t think he could be president,’ the second Democrat said,” Tapper and Thompson wrote, according to Austin Harper. “After what they’d seen, they couldn’t understand how Biden could be capable of doing the job.” (Two other top Democrats blamed the lousy footage on the awkwardness of Zoom.)”

The book also describes cabinet meetings that were “terrible and at times uncomfortable.”

Austin Harper also regards Biden’s claims, made as recently as last week on “The View,” that he would have beaten now-President Donald Trump in a rematch last year.

That suggests “that [Biden] is not fully tethered to political reality,” he wrote. “But ‘Original Sin’ leaves little doubt that his enablers, at least, understood what they were doing.”

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