Posted on 02/26/2025 6:02:51 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson decided to co-author a book about what had led the Democratic party to defeat, with a focus on former President Joe Biden.
The deeply sourced reporters found what they call a “cover-up” of the former president’s “serious decline.”
The resulting book, titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” is coming out on May 20.
The book’s publisher, Penguin Press, announced the project on Wednesday.
“What you will learn makes President Biden’s decision to run for reelection seem shockingly narcissistic, self-delusional, and reckless — a desperate bet that went bust — and part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents,” Penguin said in a press release.
Biden, “his family, and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could beat Trump again, they lied to themselves, allies, and the public about his condition and limitations,” the press release stated.
“Toni Morrison once said ‘If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,’” Jake Tapper said in a statement. “That’s what inspired this book: we wanted to know more about what we all just lived through. More than 200 interviews later, Alex and I have a much better idea. And soon you all will too.”
Tapper had a unique vantage point as the co-moderator of the June 2024 CNN debate that led Biden to drop out of the presidential race a few weeks later.
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I doubt the book will address the press role in the cover up.
Ol’ Jake had nothin’ to do with the cover-up, then??
Anybody here could have written this thing 5 years ago, what took them so long?
not need to read it, anyone with workin eyes or ears could tell
I’m a despicable uneducated deplorable anti-vaxxer flat earther piece of garbage. I was able to figure it out easily during the 2020 campaign. We were told it was a stutter and it was wrong to make fun of it.
Tapper’s publisher, Penguin Press, was amazingly forthcoming:
<><>you will learn Biden was shockingly narcissistic, self-delusional, and reckless
<><>his decision to run again was a desperate bet that went bust —
<><>part of a larger act of public deception that has few precedents.
<><>Biden, his family, and senior aides were convinced only he could beat Trump again,
<><>they lied to themselves, allies, and the public about his condition and limitations, Penguin stated.
Have these two guys figured about who was involved in the cover-up?
“Have these two guys figured about who was involved in the cover-up?”
Jake Tapper, for one, was involved in the coverup, as part of the MSM. (Don’t know about the other guy.)
This book will try to cover up the number of parties involved and duration of the deception. It’s a smoke screen.
I’m thinking that no one here has/had the appropriate proximity to events to produce the necessary hard evidence about Joe’s condition
Of course, all of America not only saw that he was certainly in a diminished state and demonstrably incapable but that he was also declining rapidly, as we observed in real time.
No average citizen could expect his/her observations (no matter how clear and correct) would be credible, or accepted. Liberals, who owned the media and the narrative, would claim any criticism of the President’s abilities was just biased.
They are holding a seance with OJ to see if they can hire the investigators he was using to find the real killer. Of course, that guy might be looking for the Epstein Island list.
“””The deeply sourced reporters found what they call a “cover-up” of the former president’s “serious decline.””””
Did Tapper interview Captain Obvious?
What you won't learn is that the MSM knew all this a year ago - probably two years ago - and said nothing because the MSM viewed it as their job to keep Donald Trump out of office at any cost. That's the book that would be worth reading. Not this post-election, no risk CYA.
Biden etal lied because they were power mad sociopaths.
What is CNN’s excuse?
The whole debate was scripted and the monitors and Jill were all in on the act.
Assemble some factoids and quotes, slap a memorable title on the cover, get it published before anyone else does similar, and odds are, critics will agree you’ve written the authoritative work on the subject.
Jake Tapper and the Walmart dollar bin, made for each other.
If the media had fully investigated Biden’s corrupt influence peddling at the end of 2023, he would have had to drop out of the race before the primaries began.
How do you inoculate yourself from criticism about covering something up? Write an expose’ accusing everyone else of covering it up and present yourself as a truth teller. Well played, Jake Tapper.
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