Make no mistake: This book about the Biden health cover-up is just another cover-up.
Exhibit A is Jake Tapper of CNN, who purports — along with co-author Alex Thompson of Axios — to ‘blow the lid’ off the Biden White House cabal that kept the president’s steep mental and physical decline a secret.
Lest we forget, ‘investigative journalist’ Jake was among Biden’s biggest cheerleaders. When Lara Trump appeared on his CNN show in 2020 and brought up Biden’s clearly visible impairments, Tapper addressed her as if she were a crackpot.
‘I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden,’ Lara said, ‘… is very clearly a cognitive decline.’
Tapper’s response? A smirk, a shake of the head, and a dismissive look down at his desk followed by a full-throated attack.
‘Okay,’ Tapper sighed, communicating to his viewers how little he thought of her — someone he invited on his show . ‘You have no — this is so amazing to me… You are mocking his stutter.’
NO, she was not.
Jake then scolded Lara. ‘You have no standing,’ he harrumphed, ‘to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline.’
Guess who’s doing just that right now? Jake freaking Tapper.
‘Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up’ — aided and abetted by the mainstream media — ‘and His Disastrous Decision to Run Again’ is already a huge bestseller, and it’s not even out yet.
This shows us the bottomless hunger for the real, unvarnished truth.
Alas, it is not to be found in these pages.
The authors do throw us a few bones — like who was actually running the country. Tapper and Thompson tell us that it was a cabal of five people, including:
Mike Donilon, Biden’s political director (who told Harvard’s Institute of Politics in February 2025 that the Democratic Party ‘lost its mind’ in deciding to push Biden out)
Steve Ricchetti, counsellor to the president (and longtime Big Pharma lobbyist)
Bruce Reed, White House deputy chief of staff
Ron Klain, longtime Biden loyalist who ‘controlled a bit of everything.’
A bit? Klain also told The Hill, in August 2024, that Biden was ‘absolutely up to the job,’ which was a blatant lie.
The fifth person running Joe Biden’s White House remains unnamed. I think we all know it’s Bad Dr. Jill, Nurse Ratched herself, Lady MacBiden.
Why do Tapper and Thompson spare her?
Herein lies the problem: This book is clearly an exercise in what the military calls ‘CYA’ — better known as ‘cover your ass.’
Among the sources, it seems, are Barack Obama, George Clooney, Kamala Harris, David Axelrod and perhaps Dr. Jill herself — because all get very glowy, velvety, sympathetic treatment and excuses as to why they sat idly by, for over eight years, despite everyone knowing Joe wasn’t compos mentis.
The authors assert that Biden’s decline was a well-kept Democratic party secret well before the 2020 run, and that Biden’s team was ‘elated’ by the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘It was one of the best things to happen, ‘ the authors write, ‘to Biden’s presidential hopes.’
That’s how power-mad, how cynical and uncaring, this entire cohort is, authors included. There’s no outrage in this book, no palpable, well-directed anger. Nor is there a demand that these conspirators be held accountable for the greatest political fraud ever perpetrated against the American people.
But we do get, in the introduction, the authors telling us that this book in no way is an attempt to ‘normalize’ Donald Trump.
They still don’t get it.
Instead, Tapper and Thompson helpfully explain, for Barack Obama, why he — back then, the undisputed leader of the Democratic party — did nothing to keep Joe from running, either in 2020 or in 2024.
‘What could Obama do? ‘ they write. ‘This was Biden’s decision.’
It seems highly likely that Obama clearly fed the authors morsels in exchange for a kindly historical take.
Same with George Clooney, who is lauded here as a living saint, the lone truth-telling Hollywood Dem who stands up to Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg — who were secretly helping Biden — and insists on writing that deadly New York Times op-ed.
An op-ed, by the way, that we are told Obama encouraged Clooney not to write. Sure.
Anyway: Clooney, who has conservatively raised about $55 million for Democratic presidential candidates since 2008, decided to omit a most consequential detail from his op-ed, a detail he shared in Original Sin for the first time:
When Biden arrived and stood before Clooney, the President of the United States failed to recognize him — a movie star with one of the most recognizable faces on the planet.
And George Clooney chose not to tell us in his op-ed. What a patriot.
But our starstruck authors set the scene, failing to realize what a Marie Antoinette they make Clooney look like.
‘In his home office in the South of France’ — gag — ‘Clooney sat down at his laptop. ‘
Clooney, currently breaking Broadway box office sales records and receiving hosannas from the mainstream media for starring in a play — a polemic, really — about the importance of journalists telling inconvenient truths, had the gall to keep that secret.
The hypocrisy astounds. Truly, it’s breathtaking. Again, the one unassailable takeaway from this book: EVERYONE KNEW.
Yet we had Jill and Joe Biden on ‘The View’ last week, those five pathetic, lapdog hosts nodding along as Biden called his presidency ‘the most successful ever,’ as Jill insisted that Joe — nodding off at the table, as she is saying this — worked 24/7, early mornings and late nights, there is never an off-switch for the president and certainly not for Sleepy Joe.
Here is President Biden’s daily schedule, as reported in this book. Note the lack of specifics. Note the lack of any detailed morning agenda whatsoever.
Lunch: 12:15-1:15
‘Desk time’: 1:30-2:15
‘POTUS time’: 2:15-4:15 (I suspect that’s a nap)
Dinner: 4:30
That’s all, folks.
Really, that’s all. Major events and players are omitted — just completely ignored. Kamala is barely present, which is how we know she, too, is likely a source.
Her husband Doug appears briefly in a scene of humiliation, an enraged Rob Reiner — Meathead! — yelling at Emhoff, in late 2024, ‘We’re going to lose our f**king democracy because of you!’
Jen Psaki, who was Biden’s press secretary for years and who told us, and tells us still, that she saw nothing, heard nothing and knows nothing, is depicted here as one of a very select few present for a post-mortem crisis meeting, after Biden seriously botched a major press conference.
Her reward? A very cushy, high-paying job at MSNBC, where she ‘reports’ the ‘news’.
Karine Jean-Pierre? Nearly absent.
Hunter? The seamy stuff is buried, though we do get a hint that he relapsed as his father was being pushed out.
David Axelrod? Could have blown the whistle anytime on CNN and chose not to. Yet he, too, is very solicitously depicted here as the epitome of avuncular concern.
Biden’s personal presidential doctor, Kevin O’Conner, who lied to us about his presidential patient for years? No big deal.
Also missing: The indisputable turning point of this election, the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump springing to his feet with blood on his face, fist in the air yelling, ‘FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!’
The contrast with Biden could not have been more stark: Strength and power vs. weakness and decline.
How could Tapper and Thompson ignore this? TDS is the only explanation.
Also missing are any details about who truly decided to withdraw from Afghanistan, who was overseeing the days-long catastrophe that saw Afghan mothers and fathers throwing their babies over barbed wire, that saw desperate Afghan men and boys clinging to departing American C-17s and falling to their deaths, and the inexcusable loss of 13 U.S. service members to a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate.
Not mentioned is Biden failing to fire anyone for that debacle, which told America’s enemies that we were weak and in retreat, so do what you will.
Oh, and not for nothing, but also running this White House was one Anthony Bernal, Dr. Jill’s bitchy fashion stylist, who Tapper and Thompson tell us was practically running the West Wing.
How could this go on? One answer: Only with the complicity of the mainstream media.
If there aren’t congressional hearings over this conspiracy, this epic lie that many geopolitical experts believe led to Russia invading Ukraine and Hamas attacking Israel, this country is in deep, deep trouble.
Subpoena them all. Will anyone have the guts?
If you look at most mainstream media coverage of this book, the most devastating info has gone unreported — such as Biden needing a wheelchair, and his aides delaying that optic so he could win 2024 and they could stash him upstairs, dozing through a second term as they all got back to running the country.
The New York Times ignored this bombshell and pushed this story down on their home page, coverage reduced to a book review — a review that did not mention the wheelchair.
CNN, Tapper’s place of employ, still has no coverage on their homepage.
ABC, NBC, CBS? Same. And legacy media wonders why it sheds eyeballs.
Imagine if this were Trump — Trump, who this very media is beginning to imply, with zero evidence, is mentally ill (per The Hill and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, that puffed-up, self-impressed blowhard).
David Plouffe — the Obama guy who took over Kamala’s flailing campaign — is the rare source to issue a stern warning to his party going forward.
‘One of the great lessons from 2024, ‘ Plouffe tells the authors, is that ‘never again can we, as a party, suggest to people that what they’re seeing isn’t there’.
‘Suggest’ is too gentle a word. They’ll never learn.