Jake Tapper and all the Democrats he interviewed are sure of one thing: Only Biden and "Doctor" Jill Biden and his six top advisers are to blame for lying to the public since 2019 about Biden's obvious mental unfitness.

No currently-serving Democrat official is to blame -- not Elizabeth Warren, not Bernie Sanders, not Mark Kelley, not any of the Democrats who insisted, and in some cases continue insisting, that Biden was/is "sharp as a tack."

They were all just misled by Biden's staff, who "kept them at a distance"! They are blameless! None of them should be asked why they didn't raise objections to Biden being kept in a bubble, or wonder why it was necessary to keep him in that bubble!

And certainly neither Jake Tapper nor any of his fellow media gangsters can be blamed for repeatedly lying to the public and telling them that Biden was tip-top and that any claims to the contrary were Republican smears.

After all, they were told by Biden's staffers! Obviously if a politician's staffer tells you a self-serving story, you are obligated to believe it and insist that your audience believes it as well!

That's the same rule they apply to Trump, right? If Trump's people insist on a claim, the media just rolls over and says "Obviously Trump's people are telling the truth here." Right? That's the rule applied to Republicans, right?

Jake Tapper did not write this book to expose the lies -- he wrote this book to manufacture a new lie, one that protects all currently-serving Democrats and their media allies and pins all blame -- every drop of it-- to a group of eight people who have no further possible career in politics.

We were all misled, claim the people who misled the country for five years.

Senior Democrats have turned on Joe Biden in a bombshell new book claiming to expose the shocking full extent of his decline.

The book, by co-authors CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson, also alleges the former president and his inner circle 'totally f***ed us' and handed the election to Donald Trump.

Exposing what they say was a concerted and long-term cover-up of Biden's failing powers, Tapper and Thompson say that in one disturbing incident the frail president allegedly failed to recognize legendary Hollywood mega-star George Clooney and 'was barely capable of stringing two sentences together' even before his grueling 2024 campaign began.

Due out in a few days, their book suggests that, despite repeated assurance from those close to him, Biden had been in cognitive decline since as far back as 2015.

Since 2015.

Which Republicans all spotted and talked about it.

Meanwhile, Jake Tapper, who's now trying to cash in, insisted that this was all a Republican cheapfake lie up until June 2024.

And that a 'Politburo' of trusted advisers, including Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, and Bruce Reed, plus members of Biden's family, effectively aided him as he 'stole' the election from the Democrats and 'the American people' because of their selfish insistence that 'an addled old man' should stand again.

Just Biden, Jill Biden, Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, Anita Dunn, and some of Biden's family, and absolutely no one else in the Democrat-Media Party were responsible for this grand deception.

The authors don't mince their words - and neither do the slew of furious Democrats who have contributed to the book, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.

Every one of their words is minced. This is a new cover-up to replace the old cover-up, now that the old cover-up has been exposed and threatens to destroy the entire Democrat-Media Party.

The wound must be stanched. The bleeding must be cauterized. Blame must be affixed to seven people firmly and all others need to be defended and excused.

In one excoriating summary, Tapper and Thompson suggest the decision to push Biden to run for re-election in 2024 was '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 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.'

So outraged are influential Democrats that a number have allowed their names to be used in the book, including David Plouffe, who managed Obama's successful 2008 campaign. 'We got so screwed by Biden as a party,' Plouffe is quoted as saying.

In one of the most shocking revelations, Biden was reportedly so impaired that he didn't recognize Clooney at a star-studded June 2024 Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles, the book says, claiming it left the actor 'shaken to his core.'

'It was obvious to many standing there that the president did not know who George Clooney was,' the authors write.

In fairness, I don't recognize him either. He now looks like Count Chocula Who Got The AIDS.

Another Hollywood VIP guest reportedly said: 'It was like watching someone who was not alive. It was so awful.'

...

In another passage of this new book, Tapper and Thompson describe how in June 2023, former president Barack Obama allegedly visited Biden to 'kick the tires.'

He told Biden that Trump would be formidable and left Biden with a warning.

'Just make sure you can win the race,' he said.

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From production trickery during filmed appearances, to severely limited work periods for the ageing president, the book also reveals the extraordinary measures taken to prevent the public - and the rest of the Democratic Party - from seeing what they say was the true scale of Biden's infirmity.

At 82, Biden was already the oldest president in the history of the republic when he finished his term in office.

When the White House aides filmed his appearances, they would use more than one camera, allowing 'jump cuts' (switching from one view to another) to obscure his stumbles, according to the book.

But the president's issues weren't a recent development. The authors claim that by 2020, during Biden's first campaign, he already could no longer follow conversations and a special team was hired to edit his verbal stumbles out of campaign ads.

The authors say he had trouble recording even mundane thoughts without fluffing his lines.

'Biden often couldn't make it through one or two minutes without botching a line or two,' one source says.

I reported all of these things. So did the coblogs. So did the commenters.

But Jake Tapper now wants a million dollars for reporting what better reporters -- pretty much everyone else in the world -- reported five years ago.

Original Sin says that from January 1, 2023 to April 27, 2024, the president had undertaken only four public events before 10.00 am.

How many times did we point out that Biden did all of his photo ops between 11 am and 4pm?

That's why we called him Sundown -- because people with dementia begin getting fuzzy around sundown.

But Jake Tapper, Super-Reporter, is just getting around to reporting this now.

All of this was available to be reported years ago. You don't need "Democrat staffers suddenly telling the truth" to just check Biden's f***ing daily schedule, which is and was published every day.

One prominent Democratic strategist who once publicly defended Biden is quoted saying that the former president 'stole' the election from the American people.

Another leading Democrat had been assured that the president was 'fine', but when he met Biden in person, he found the First Lady, Jill Biden, was finishing some thoughts for him.

'He was clearly not f***ing fine,' this source tells the authors.

We all saw this. Some of us reported it. Some of us covered up.

And of course the people who covered it up are now being showered with cash and praise.

Biden/Harris campaign strategist David Pfloufle is emphatic -- none of this was my fault, it was all Biden!
"Trying to defeat Donald Trump in just 107 days was a 'f***ing nightmare,' admits Harris campaign adviser David Plouffe," in a new report (no link, alas) shared by Steve Guest on X this morning. Plouffe blamed Biden for clinging to power too long, leaving Harris too little time to mount an effective campaign: "He totally f***ed us."

But Concha argued that Plouffe "helped run a patently horrible campaign, and of course to save his own skin, passes the buck." He rattled off a brutal list of missteps, including skipping the Al Smith dinner, ignoring Joe Rogan, tapping Tim Walz, and cozying up to Liz Cheney.

When Concha puts it like that, Plouffe looks pretty bad, doesn't he?

The thing is, Concha is entirely correct that Plouffe's decisions on Al Smith, Rogan, Walz, and Cheney all led to disaster. What Concha misses is that, as bad as those choices were, the alternatives were worse.

Rogan and the Al Smith dinner fall into the same category: the only thing worse than ducking an appearance that might call on Harris to look informed and presidential... is actually making one. Rogan isn't a "Gotcha!" interviewer, but within 30 minutes of his three-hour podcast, he'd have had Harris reduced to clucking like a chicken.

Cheney was a tougher call. With Trump bleeding Democrats of working-class men and gaining ground with black and Hispanic voters, Harris needed some kind of crossover credibility. Cheney may have seemed like a longshot play for disaffected Republicans -- but Trump's base never liked her, and independents barely noticed.

I saved Walz for last because he's the funniest example of Plouffe's dilemma.

Harris needed a white male for "balance," preferably someone with executive experience and the ability to deliver a swing state. That left her with Walz or Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. Shapiro would have been the better choice -- popular, sharp, and governor of a crucial swing state. But Harris couldn't afford to alienate the "River to the Sea" crowd, and that made Shapiro's Jewishness a political liability.

So it had to be Walz.

I'll never quit laughing at Gov. Jazz Hands getting the veep nod because he could bring "masculinity" to the ticket.

In case you didn't see it: Roll the tape of Jake the Fake's "coverage" of Biden's dementia, when it was actually a central political question that would greatly impact the Democrats' chances of winning in 2024:

Biden's assistant press secretary Andrew Bates cited this NBC report for the claim that all videos of Biden stumbling or slurring were "cheapfakes."

In all likelihood, he planted this story so he could then cite it as an "independent fact-check" against claims of Biden being mentally unfit.