Biden’s cognitive decline and cover-up explored in new book

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The original sin: President Biden, cover -up, and his catastrophic choice, retreated to run again
Written by Jake Taber and Alex Thompson
Penguin Press: 352 pages, $ 32
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Jake Taber and Alex Thompson read, and his catastrophic option to run again, such as Shakespeare drama on doping. During his last years in No. 46, Biden is filmed as a lion in the winter – he was shocked and forgotten with a fierce pride that Yum to the fact that the time has come out of the theater. He helped in this illusion, as the authors claim, by the myths that his family has erected around him – that he is not destroyed – and his internal circle is warm protection, which is called the “Political Bureau”.
Although the most often unknown TAPPER and Thompson sources (disgusting that a few of them have been registered in the registry) indicate that the first annoying signs of Biden’s decreasing capabilities appeared early in 2015, when many around him designed them on a “feed”, noticing with unjustified comments, “even in tight zoom calls tightly designed with Friendly audiences, Biden can steal the fire. “
This tendency seemed to turn into something more concerned even before Biden was elected president. The Democrat, whose name was not revealed, witnessed that the candidate Biden had registered before the 2020 conference in Milwoki was surprised because of his lack of interconnection, commenting that “he was like watching the grandfather who should not drive his car.” Once his position reached, White House staff “treated him as a very sensitive”, and gave the epidemic an excuse to build “barriers” around him so that a few could reach. The media and the public were kept along the arm, as well as many members of the Council of Ministers and Congress, which led to a “small and sincere interior circle”. “I have never seen such a situation before, with very few people who have a lot of strength,” said one of the senior unknown officials.
Those pentagues consisted of the elite of local policy consultant Bruce Reed, the chief strategy Mike Donilon, Goro Legislative Affairs Steve Richti and Chief of Staff Ron Klein, who had profound relations with Biden. “Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a great member of the Board of Directors,” he offered one person familiar with dynamics. Over time, more anxiety about Biden’s behavior has been said to those who routinely inquired that everything is fine. One of the employees who could not regularly reach Biden during this period said that when they saw him personally, they felt “shocked, but it seems that the other people around him were not, so I didn’t say anything.”
It was not even soon for Biden his pledge in the same -term to be a “bridge” president and explains that he intends to run again that some began to feel a feeling of alert. For example, in 2023, Congress member Mike Kigley (D-LEL) was with Biden when he visited Ireland. Biden seemed to have gained strength from the crowds that received him, but after that appeared “covered and not there.” The authors write that Quigley “realize why all this felt familiar with him … so his father, Bill, was before his death.” Likewise, the member of the Congress at Minnesota Dean Phillips was very annoyed by Biden’s “speaking and walking skills” that he pressed for Democratic officials whether the president was about to work. Even those who admitted that they have fears offered “Yes, but, as in,” Yes, Biden decreased but can you imagine Trump’s profit? “Philips can imagine such a scenario,“ especially if Biden is the democratic candidate. ”He failed to urge anyone to take his fears seriously, he declared his candidacy. But“ the whale that is terrified is escalating, ”Philips later noticed after the“ democracy machine ”to cancel his chances. He reluctantly withdrawn from the race and“ watched his party asleep towards disasters. ”

Alex Thompson, the left, and Jake Tabbar argue that there is a conspiracy to hide the “cognitive decline” of the president from the press and the general democrats.
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Although some major democratic supporters such as Hollywood Mongol Ary Emmanuel refused to support Biden’s attempt to re-election-even screaming in Klein during “retreat of power player”, “Joe Biden cannot run for his re-election! He needs to leave!” Most of them remained in the corner of the president until his disastrous debate in late June 2024. After that, the slow punctuation of the Allies Biden called him to withdraw has become a precipitation, and even loyalists like George Clooney publicly excel in the editorial as “I love” Joe Biden, “the single battle he cannot win is the battle against time.”
Was there a conspiracy to hide Biden symptoms of journalism, beauty and democrats? The authors conclude that there was. “The original sin of the elections 2024,” they write, “Biden’s decision was to run for his re -election – followed by aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive contradiction.” The Biden family and the inner circle chosen by the internal cycle were “highlighting the American people.” Many major Democratic officials and donors simply felt that even Biden’s weakness was the best bet against the “existential threat” represented by Trump, until the debate destroyed this rationalization. However, Biden’s allies, “who have expressed concerns have been removed like lint.”
In the end, I am not convinced that there is a coordinated campaign to hide the truth about Biden’s “case”, but it may not matter. In the last chapter of the book, the former public prosecutor at Watergate and Law Professor Archibald Cox quoted the lessons that Americans must take from the Watergate scandal. It is noted that “we must remind us of the corrupt influence on the superpower. … It may be known that the modern government is unusual jackets in the president and a large circle of men and women who depend on their personal status and their satisfaction depends completely on satisfying one man.”
But Biden is not Nixon. He is a man who gave birth to love and intense loyalty, whose life was filled with tragedy and opportunity; Those who served his country with enthusiasm and emotional for decades. “The original sin” is not a compassionate narration of the last Biden campaign – sometimes this is painful journalism, if necessary, if necessary. According to the strategic political, political strategic expert David Bluffy is “we can never like a party to suggest that what they see is incorrect.” We do not know if Trump could defeat if Biden chose not to run. But in the future, we cannot be in a state of denial.
Haber is a writer, editor and publishing specialist. She was the director of the Books Club in Oprah and a written editor in the Oprah magazine.