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Earlier this week, The New Yorker ran an excerpt from “Original Sin.” In that piece, Tapper and Thompson tell the story of George Clooney’s astonishing interaction with Biden at a Hollywood fund-raiser and how it prompted him to write a scathing Op-Ed in the Times calling on his longtime friend to step down.

President’s reduced cognitive powers pushed the country toward Donald Trump.
By David Remnick

 

 

(Even now, the Biden circle insists that any talk of the former President’s diminishing faculties is false. Commenting on the New Yorker excerpt, a spokesman said, “No one has been able to point out where Joe Biden had to make a Presidential decision or make a Presidential address where he was unable to do his job because of mental decline.”) Here, in an interview for The New Yorker Radio Hour, Tapper and Thompson discuss some of the broader issues in their book. Our conversation has been edited for clarity and length.

 


Jake and Alex, I’m not a fortune-teller, but I’m going to guess in advance that one critique of your book—and the critique of all the coverage of Joe Biden’s decline and fall—can be summarized in the question: What took you so long? Before we launch into the details of your book, let’s wrestle with that question of “why now?” Why so late?

jake tapper: A lot of us have covered Joe Biden’s aging, and the accompanying inability to do things the way he used to, throughout his Presidency. But what we uncovered, after the election was over, when all the people that we had been talking to for months and years, and all of the people who had been saying, “He’s *ne, he’s *ne,” were suddenly willing to talk about what had been going on. It was only after the election that we were able to get the insider point of view. Before that, the only insider point of view we really got was from the Hur report, when the special counsel described what he saw behind closed doors, sitting down with Biden for an extended period of time. Before that, it was a lot of: “He’s *ne, he’s *ne, he’s *ne.” But Alex and I have spoken with more than two hundred people after the election. And, unencumbered by their fears of “if I say this, then Joe Biden won’t get elected or Kamala Harris won’t get elected,” they were much more candid.
It’s very important that folks were noting that he tripped onstage at a graduation at the Air Force Academy, but comparing that to him not being able to conjure the name of or recognize George Clooney, somebody he’d known for decades and somebody throwing the most lucrative fund-raiser in the history of the Democratic Party— those are two different things. Noting that he mistakenly thought that he’d had a conversation with François Mitterrand as opposed to Emmanuel Macron—we all saw that and we noted it and we talked about it. But compared to him not knowing the name of one of his top advisers, in December, 2022—there’s a difference. What we found by writing this book is that everything that we saw going on in front of the camera was much worse behind the scenes.


And what you’re saying is that while it was happening in real time, during Biden’s Presidency, the sources who were in the position to know—who actually knew and saw this—were not speaking clearly to journalists on any basis. Is that what we’re suggesting?


alex thompson: Yes. I don’t think they were speaking honestly. And, as Biden’s decline became precipitous, they also began to close ranks. The circle of people who had access to the President shrank considerably at the end of 2023, and throughout 2024, up until and leading to the debate.


Describe what that circle became. How did it shrink, and who was around him?


a.t.: The people they were excising were longtime aides, Cabinet members, senior officials. And the very, very inner circle—and I put in that category Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken—basically said, You brief us, we’ll brief him.

Antony Blinken was on this show on one of his last days in office as Secretary of State. I asked him about the aging question, and he answered it in the following way. He said, basically, When I was in the room with him, Joe Biden had all his powers. Yes, he might slip up on a name or something like that, but he was engaged, he was making decisions, he was doing what you would want of a President. Is that what he says in private, or was he just doing that on the record for a podcast?

a.t.: I’ll say that it’s sort of telling that not just Tony Blinken but basically every single senior adviser, with the exception of a few, will always say, Well, when I was with him. When I saw him. . . . Which is giving them plausible deniability.
j.t.: There are a couple of other things to unpack with that. One is that the issues that animated Joe Biden the most in his Presidency were national-security issues—nato, the Middle East, Ukraine- Russia. And so I don’t doubt that he was most engaged [with Blinken], and also that those meetings, when they scheduled them, were in peak-performance time—noon, one o’clock. But the other thing that Blinken says—


Well, hang on, Jake. Peak-performance time, you’re suggesting, was just a couple of hours in the middle of the day? ETC ETC....

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/jake-tapper-and-alex-thompson-on-president-joe-bidens-decline-and-its-coverup

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXe9M5yCthc&t=170s

JAKE TAPPER: LIAR, LIAR

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qypQX28kgy8

Jake Tapper Helped Hide Biden's Decline. Now He's Profiting From It

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYorjq9JOAk

Lisa Boothe: This isn’t a coverup, it’s a betrayal

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEYwHqEAbmg

Jake Tapper Book Reveals Corporate Media ROT

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7L3Nn1-f-U

Jake Tapper is still in denial about Joe Biden

 

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THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY...

ON THIS SITE, HERE, WE HAVE EXPOSE JOE BIDEN'S DECEIT (AS VICE-PRESIDENT) AND MENTAL DECLINE BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT, FOR AS LONG AS WE COULD... TRUMP OR NO TRUMP, JOE HAD FRIED (AND NASTY) BRAINS...

THAT THE DEMOCRATS IN AMERICA ALLOW JOE BIDEN TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2020 IS BEYOND THE PALE. BY MID-2020, EVEN THE RUSSIANS KNEW THAT JOE WAS NOT THE FULL QUID — BUT INSANITY PREVAILED AND THE DOGS RAN THE WHITE HOUSE... THE DOGS? YES, OBAMA, BLINKEN, SULLIVAN, HUNTER BIDEN, JILL BIDEN, NANCY PELOSI AND THE PENTAGON LLOYD AUSTIN THE THIRD, PLUS THE TELEPROMPTER... BY MID 2024, THEY COULD NOT HIDE JOE'S MENTAL DECLINE ANY MORE... SOME OF THE MEDIA HAD SEEN THE SIGNS WAY BEFORE, SOMEWHERE IN 2019... JAKE TAPPER WAS NOT ONE OF THEM... HE WAS BLIND OR UNWILLING TO SEE... PROBABLY BECAUSE OF "TRUMP" LURKING FOR THE PRESIDENCY...

OBAMA DEMANDED GEORGE CLOONEY POST AN OP-ED TO DEMAND JOE RECLUSE HIMSELF FROM SEEKING ANOTHER TERM... WHILE PREPARING AN EXIT STRATEGY!

RATHER THAN ORGANISE A DEMOCRATIC CHOICE, THEY WHEELED OUT KAMALA (HARRIS) TO THE FORE — HOPING FOR A MIRACLE!. THEY NEARLY GOT AWAY WITH IT (A "WOMAN" OF "COLOR"). KAMALA HAD TO BE COAXED OUT OF "DRINKING TOO MUCH" APPARENTLY... AND EVERY TIME SHE WENT OFF SCRIPT, HER MIND WAS UNABLE TO BE MUCH MORE COHERENT THAN JOE'S, THOUGH HER LAUGHING "JOIE DE VIVRE" GOT A LOT OF VOTERS THROUGH. 

WILL THE DEMOCRATS (AND THE WILLINGLY BLIND MEDIA) PAY DEARLY FOR THIS DECEIT? PROBABLY NOT ENOUGH... LUCKY, THE WORLD HAS MOVED ON... UNLUCKY US, TRUMP IS TRYING HIS BEST TO MUCK UP EVERYTHING WITH "BRILLIANCE"... HOPING FOR SOME LUCK TO STICK FOR THE EMPIRE... READ ALL THE POSTS AND ARTICLES ON THIS SUBJECT ON THIS SITE....

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

dud prez.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-5EXLDk9Mc

Bill O'Reilly on Joe Biden and the 'Biggest Media Scandal in History'

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lrKXQGIlbY

'THREAT TO DEMOCRACY': Biden-Hur audio exposed

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vEzv83I_Ig

The ‘Biden cover-up’ is the biggest story of our lifetimes: Joe Concha

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6AmwLU1MpQ

Mollie Hemingway: This is a 'major story'

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJ7zCzOy-o

Watters: Here's what this reveals about Biden

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVTCtnqZXc

Peter Doocy shares sense of vindication about Biden health questions

 

Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy gives his take on the Biden-Hur audio tapes on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

jill and hyde.....

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Lindy Li about Jill Biden’s strong push for Joe Biden to remain in office despite his cognitive decline; Hunter Biden’s involvement in high-level White House meetings while Biden was incapacitated; the Democratic Party’s panic after Trump’s assassination attempt and the financial collapse of Biden’s campaign post-debate; Rep. James Clyburn’s pivotal influence in Biden’s presidency and Kamala Harris’s rise; behind-the-scenes tensions between Team Biden and Team Harris; last-minute secrecy surrounding Biden’s resignation decision; the hidden power of unelected advisors running the administration; and much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOrlW-kQLq0&t=66s

Biden Insider: This Is Who Pulled Biden’s Strings Behind the Scenes | Lindy Li

 

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Lindy Li about her initial hope for Kamala Harris but quickly realizing she lacked the leadership needed to run the country; her struggle leaving the Democratic Party, as many of her political connections were also close friends; her long history of pushing back against the far left, including clashes with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; the emotional and physical toll of political shifts; concerns over identity politics and Democratic leadership; who she voted for in 2024; and much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPEb5iVrCJM

Kamala Insider: The Kamala They Never Wanted You to See | Lindy Li

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

cancer.....

The office of the former President Joe Biden released a statement Sunday announcing that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The cancer has metastasized to the bone, his physicians said. 

“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement said.

Biden’s cancer diagnosis comes as Democrats are struggling over how to account for their role in covering up the former president’s ill health and poor mental acuity, which, according to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, was evident even during his 2020 campaign.

 

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/biden-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

sympathy....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94cL7Nwqn40

What's the REAL Reason Biden's Cancer Diagnosis Was Revealed Sunday Night? With Cooke and Lowry

 

Megyn Kelly is joined by National Review's Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke to discuss the real reason behind the timing of Biden’s cancer diagnosis announcement, whether it was meant to garner sympathy or undermine the Tapper book, what to expect in Tapper and Thompson’s book that’s coming out tomorrow, and more.

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

moving on....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZtv3JsEk8s

Jill and Hunter were actually running the country: Brian Kilmeade

 

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         Gus Leonisky

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prison....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQh4NhY1okA

If Biden's cancer covered up, people should go to prison: O'Reilly | On Balance

 

Bill O’Reilly joins “On Balance” to discuss why he wants a congressional investigation into President Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis and the possibility of it being a cover up.

 

GUSNOTE: IF BIDEN MENTAL DEFICIENCIES WERE COVERED UP (WHICH THEY WERE) PEOPLE SHOULD GO TO PRISON... 

BUT NOBODY WILL....

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

a book to sell....

 

Media Ignored Biden’s Health After Spending Years Obsessing Over Trump’s    BY: SHAWN FLEETWOOD

 

It’s become fairly obvious that for four years under Joe Biden, the United States was subjected to a puppet presidency in which its commander-in-chief was out to lunch on major policy initiatives enacted by unknown officials within his administration. And for four years, this unelected oligarchy was permitted to exercise its will with virtually no critical oversight from America’s legacy media, whose newfound interest in the subject is only now happening because some of their biggest hacks have a book to sell.

While these left-wing propagandists want Americans to believe their sudden coverage of Biden’s decline proves their credibility, it’s actually an indictment of it — especially when contrasting their years-long silence to how they fomented worries about Donald Trump’s health. 

 

Throughout his first administration, the media relentlessly pushed conspiracy-laden articles and “questions” about Trump’s physical and mental fitness to serve as president. 

In February 2017, Forbes ran an article by then-contributor Emily Willingham highlighting an online petition signed by tens of thousands of self-professed “mental health professionals.” Started by a former Johns Hopkins psychologist, the petition and its signatories — whom Willingham admits have “not been confirmed” to be actual “mental health professionals” — declared without evidence that Trump “manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States” and asked that “he be removed from office” under the 25th Amendment.

In January 2018, The New York Times published a piece in which authors Katie Rogers and Lawrence Altman effectively questioned what information the president “who fuels himself with a steady stream of Diet Cokes, scoops of vanilla ice cream and slabs of red meat” would release as part of his first presidential physical. The writers claimed that Trump “is selective about releasing information about his personal life” and later noted that “questions about Mr. Trump’s mental health have increased.”

“In the past, physicians examining presidents have mischaracterized or hidden illnesses to present them as healthier: President Franklin D. Roosevelt readily acknowledged his polio, for instance, but his White House doctor hid the severe high blood pressure that led to heart failure,” the authors wrote. 

The media’s unhinged obsession with Trump’s health was front and center during a press briefinglater that month with then-White House doctor and now-Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, on the results of the president’s exam. In question after question, regime hacktivists interrogated Jackson over Trump’s wellness in a way that was nowhere to be found during Biden’s presidency.

Media continued to try and stoke concerns about Trump’s health throughout the rest of his first term and even after he left office. 

Meanwhile, outlets like The Washington Post and The New York Times circled back on this strategy following Biden’s exit from the 2024 race. Since discussing the Delaware Democrat’s mental fitness was no longer considered a political liability, they suddenly found it OK to once again question Trump’s wellness.

The media willfully ignoring Biden’s decline and the consequences it wrought for the country resulted in a crisis that cannot be overstated. It’s the press’s job to oversee government and ensure accountability among its far too numerous actors.

For these “defenders of democracy” to turn the other cheek from the Potemkin Biden presidency staring them straight in their faces while tripping over themselves to dig into every detail of Trump’s health history is further proof that America doesn’t have a real press. It has a propaganda regime devoted to advancing the interests and power of the Democrat Party through any means necessary. 

  Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/20/media-ignored-bidens-health-after-spending-years-obsessing-over-trumps/

 

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