Jake Tapper has written a new book. One that purports to uncover Joe Biden’s “Original Sin.” Here’s Penguin’s description:

From two of America’s most respected journalists, an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration

In Greek tragedy, the protagonist’s effort to avoid his fate is what seals his fate. In 2024, American politics became a Greek tragedy.

Joe Biden launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House with the stated goal of saving the nation from a second Trump presidential term. He, 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. At his debate with Trump on June 27, 2024, the consequences of that deception were exposed to the world. It was shocking and upsetting.

Now the full, unsettling truth is being told for the first time. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson take us behind closed doors and into private conversations between the heaviest of hitters, revealing how big the problem was and how many people knew about it. From White House staffers at the highest to lowest levels, to leaders of Congress and the Cabinet, from governors to donors and Hollywood players, the truth is finally being told. 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. The story the authors tell raises fundamental issues of accountability and responsibility that will continue for decades.

The irony is biting: In the name of defeating what they called an existential threat to democracy, Biden and his inner circle ensured it, tossing aside his implicit promise to serve for only one term, denying the existence of health issues the nation had been watching for years, dooming the Democrats to defeat. The decision to run again, the Original Sin of this president, led to a campaign of denial and gaslighting, leading directly to Donald Trump’s return to power and all that has happened as a consequence. Rarely does hubris meet nemesis more explosively. Wherever you stand on the political spectrum, Original Sin is essential reading.

Let me just stop you right there Jake. You were definitely involved in the “campaign of denial and gaslighting!” Jake, you are on record…ON THE AIR insisting that Joe Biden was 100% totally fine. CNN, Axios and EVERYONE in the media told us all that Joe’s wandering off during the G7 Summit was just him wanting to talk to the guys. 

Jake, you threw a tantrum and insisted to everyone that it was just a goddamn stutter! 

Here's Jake Tapper incensed over Joe Biden's "stutter" and outraged over claims of Biden's cognitive decline.

Now he's cashing in on a book about Biden's cognitive decline and media cover up. There is no bottom for these people.
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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 26, 2025

When it wasn’t and you knew it then, just as we all did. Even the big wig Democrat donors knew there were problems and helped with the coverup during their cocktail fundraisers that Joe attended. They are trying to gaslight and cover their asses now, but it’s not working. 

All the usual suspects are beyond thrilled that this book is coming out. Even though they were equally complicit in informing the world that Joe was totally fine and those of us pointing out his decline were trafficking in misinformation. This from CNN’s Brian Stelter is just an amazing feat of gaslighting. 

Tapper and Thompson write in the book that “what the world saw at Joe Biden’s one and only debate was not an anomaly — it was not a cold, it was not someone who was under or overprepared, it was not someone who was just a little tired. It was the natural result of an eighty-one-year-old man whose faculties had been diminishing for years.”

“Biden, his family, and his team let their self-interest and fear of another Trump term justify trying to put an at times addled old man in the Oval Office for four more years,” the authors write. “What was the extent of it? Was it a cover-up? Was it a conspiracy? We will let the facts speak for themselves.”

The facts are, WE KNEW. The facts are, THEY KNEW! Yet Jake and the rest of the media worked overtime to gaslight us all into believing that Joe was totally fine. Until it all fell apart at the June debate. 

But now, Jake wants to make some more money. 

"Remember that thing that we spent lots of time defending and viciously attacking people who noticed? Well, it was all true and buy my book." https://t.co/fpTz6VL1b3

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) February 26, 2025

And Alex is super proud of his contribution to the book. Will there be any mea culpa’s from Alex, Tapper, or anyone else for their roles in covering up Joe’s decline or insisting that what we were seeing was just a figment of our imagination? 

You see, we have the receipts. We all do. Keep throwable things out of reach while you read through Amy’s entire thread. 

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This wasn’t a one-off. Throughout the campaign and his presidency, it was clear Biden was unwell. Wandering off, not taking questions.

He had prompts telling him STAGE DIRECTIONS https://t.co/Ll2rgFrZig

— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) February 26, 2025

As we wrote here, Robert Hur was attacked by the Democrat media complex for saying Joe Biden couldn’t be prosecuted BECAUSE he was mentally incapable of standing trial! We wrote about Joe seeing dead people, we wrote about the Easter Bunny having to run interference for Joe in 2022. 

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This should END the media. This should END Jake Tapper’s career.

They put partisan politics above not only the Constitution but the safety and security of the American people.

Joe Biden had access to highly classified state secrets, highly classified intelligence.

— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) February 26, 2025

Jeff points out at the National Review that the “Original Sin” isn’t just the Biden Brand. It’s that the media was equally complicit in this coverup that put our entire nation at risk for four years. Will the book bluntly cover the fact that the MEDIA knew and covered for Joe? I highly doubt it. 

Jake Tapper, with this book, admits that he KNEW, but gaslit us all anyway. That’s the “original sin” right there. 

Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click