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America is waking up to a truth many suspected, but few dared to say out loud. Former President Joe Biden, the leader of the free world, was not entirely in charge during some of the most critical years of his presidency. The recently released book “Original Sin,” by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, lays out in painful detail a scandal that may well be the biggest of our era: a cover-up of the president’s decline, executed by those closest to him and enabled by an obedient political class and a complicit media.
This was not just about an aging man who slowed down. According to the book, based on nearly 200 interviews with senior White House officials, Democratic strategists and other insiders, President Biden frequently forgot names, even those of his own national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and close allies like George Clooney. Staff privately discussed whether he needed a wheelchair. His schedule was carefully limited, his access to the press tightly managed and key decisions were increasingly made not by him but those around him.
Let us pause and think about that. Who was making those decisions? If the president was not capable, who was really running the country? Was it Chief of Staff Ron Klain or his successor, Jeff Zients? First Lady Jill Biden? Cabinet members? Or a shadow circle of advisers acting in his name? More importantly, who knew and chose to say nothing?
