This guy is reading Jake Tapper's cover-up grifter opportunity and commenting on it so that you don't have to buy it.

Anthony LaMesa
@ajlamesa

"The lessons from this book go beyond one man and one political party. They speak to more universal questions about cognitive dissonance, groupthink, courage, cowardice, and patriotism."

-Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson in the Authors' Note of Original Sin

So, Jake: How did you do the test of your courage and patriotism, and your ability to withstand the groupthink of your fellow leftwingers? What do you say now of your cowardice in repeating the lies of your fellow leftwing propagandists?

Oh wait, he refuses to talk about his role in this -- this is just about the Biden Inner Circle.

"No one thought that the Harris campaign had been without error. But for the most knowledgeable Democratic officials and donors, and for top members of the Harris campaign, there was no question about the father of this election calamity: It was Joe Biden."

"The real issue wasn't his age per se. It was the clear limitations of his abilities, which got worse throughout his presidency."

Tapper and Thompson say that the White House "had been gaslighting the American people."

"Harris made plenty of mistakes, both before Biden became candidate and afterward, but no decision that she and her campaign made was anywhere near as consequential as his decision to run for reelection and pretend he wasn't mentally melting before our eyes."

Original Sin notes how the Biden team constantly told David Plouffe that "he was achieving FDR-level accomplishments."

He clearly was not. This was one of the most dishonest discourses during the Biden administration, alongside lying about his decline.

"As of early 2025, Biden can still, of course, engage in a coherent conversation if he is prepared and rested."

"if he is prepared and rested"

Brutal language.

"The presidency requires someone who can perform at 2:00 a.m. during an emergency. Cabinet secretaries in his own administration told us that by 2024, he could not be relied upon for this."

"Biden, his family, and his team let their self-interest and fear of another Trump term justify an attempt to put an at times addled old man in the Oval Office for four more years."

Their behavior actually suggests to me that they didn't personally fear another Trump term.

Apparently President Biden couldn't remember Mike Donilon's name *in December 2019.*

A personal friend and aide he worked with *since 1981.*

""You know, you know," he said, groping for it."

During the 2020 primary: "In the office, campaign aides would whisper about how he was not always 100 percent, but there was no way to have that conversation with him or his most senior aides. It was almost taboo."

"At events in Iowa in January 2020, aides privately noted that voters were seeing a diminished man who was not as he had been just two months earlier. Voters were coming out of Biden's events less likely to support him."

This is exactly why I question:

1) If Biden would have won the primary if there had not been an aggressive attempt to circle the wagons and wrap things up in March 2020, because Covid.

2) If Biden would have won the general election without his frailty and rapid decline being hidden by the Zoom/basement campaign.

This is interesting: There is every reason to believe that the Biden, Inc. crime family covered up Biden's cancer.

Because they have experience with covering up cancer to preserve political power: they hid Beau Biden's cancer, too, almost until he died.

Anthony LaMesa
@ajlamesa

It is difficult not to think about President Biden's cancer diagnosis -- and rapid decline over the past few years -- when reading pages 18-19 of Original Sin.

"Beau's cancer treatment also demonstrated the Bidens' capacity for denial and the lengths they would go to avoid transparency about health issues, even when the person in question is an elected official, in this case the sitting attorney general of Delaware."

In summer 2013, Beau had surgery after collapsing during a vacation and a Stage 4 tumor was removed from his brain. Beau then started to do fewer public appearances, stopped doing lengthy interviews, and "appeared gaunt." Despite all this, the Bidens didn't disclose anything and, in November 2013, "Beau told a local reporter that he had a "clean bill of health" after an exam."

"Beau would remain the sitting attorney general of Delaware for the entirety of 2014, even as his family secretly flew him all over the country for a variety of experimental treatments. In April 2014, he began having difficulties with his speech. He would often enter hospitals under an alias: George Lincoln."

Beau's wife disapproved of the secrecy, but Joe Biden insisted on it.

"Beau's wife, Hallie, told people she didn't understand why they had to keep his illness a secret. Making it public likely would have led people to rally around the family. He was an elected official. Both Biden and Beau opposed disclosure."

"At times, Biden also instructed his team to mislead the media about his whereabouts. They would publicly say that the vice president was going to Delaware for the weekend, then returning to DC the next week. That was technically true, but Biden sometimes flew to Houston, where Beau was receiving treatment, to be with his eldest son over the weekend."

On the 2020 primary victory: "Biden and much of his team saw their victory as an affirmation of themselves. Their theory of the case had been right, and the doubters had been wrong. They bristled when anyone suggested that they had also gotten a little lucky."

Yeah, this thinking was profoundly problematic. Biden won because Democratic elites were afraid of Sanders and the pandemic hysteria led to calls for wrapping things up early. It wasn't his talent or popularity.

"It was terrible to admit, but Biden's own aides would say that while the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the worst things to happen to the world, it was one of the best things to happen to Biden's presidential hopes. They doubted Biden could have otherwise kept up the pace of campaigning through November."

Fake Jake only became aware of the Basement Campaign, and how it was used to hide Biden's senility, in just the past couple of months.

Give him your money!

"As pandemic lockdowns became widespread in March 2020, Biden could avoid that grueling travel and campaign remotely from Wilmington. He could rest. Close aides pushed for events to start in the afternoon, if possible."

Remarkable that, even with the low-energy basement campaign, Biden still couldn't manage morning and evening events.

The section on the convention Zoom videos is just infuriating.

Those reports concern his Zoom calls during the 2020 campaign. Donors were given their questions ahead of time, and Biden had note-cards with his scripted answers to those "questions."

All of this to hide the fact that he was a vegetable. But the people on the Zoom calls knew they were being given a script to follow, so who was actually fooled?

They also did this during his cabinet meetings-- cabinet officials complained about it being "embarrassing" to sit at a table reading scripted questions while Biden struggled to read out his note cards in "reply" to those questions.

All of this fakery that Jake Tapper just heard about, hand on Bible, swear to God.

Biden should not have been the 2020 nominee.

Well, duh.

On dishonestly edited videos of Biden: "But the bogus videos were tough to counter because the underlying preexisting belief they reaffirmed -- that Biden seemed old and prone to misspeaking -- was true."

A former European leader who experienced a couple instances of Biden rambling and struggling to get to a point: "I didn't think he should run for reelection; he was clearly not at the top of his game."

"Republicans taunted Biden by calling Klain "the prime minister," but people inside the White House sometimes quietly called him that too. He steered and staffed the White House in a way that seemed contrary to Biden's centrist reputation."

On the Afghanistan withdrawal: "He never communicated adequate regret, never fired anyone, and would react defensively when the issue was brought up. The topic could easily trigger his temper at his own aides."

Unrelated: There's no proof "LaMonica McIver" struck ICE guards.. except, you know, for the videotape of her using her Black Privilege to hit people and then demand apologies.