CNN anchor Jake Tapper is co-authoring a book with Axios correspondent Alex Thompson detailing the “cover-up” of former President Joe Biden’s “serious decline,” CNN reported on Wednesday.
The book, titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” pins the blame on Biden and his family for being “part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents,” according to the book’s publisher, Penguin Press. Tapper co-hosted Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate against Donald Trump, which eventually led to Biden’s exit from the presidential race, while Thompson reported on the debate fallout and the White House’s attempts to keep Biden in the 2024 contest.
“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, adding that 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.”
