In March 2024, I wrote a column on the state of the state of the union of President Biden with a sure holder that made a lot of sense to me at that time: “Relax, my American fellow citizens. Its president has no cognitive problems.”
Chico, I was wrong. For months, critics and Supporters had been asking specific questions about the physical health and intellectual acuity of the president. If I had won the November elections, after all, it would have been the oldest president in the history of the United States. (Since he lost, that honor is for the current occupant of the White House). But during his one -hour speech against Congress, Biden had repeatedly entered the Republicans. He was in his game. The Democrats were relieved.
Having seen Trump ask spurious questions during the 2016 campaign about Hillary Clinton's health, particularly after he was visibly ill in a ceremony of September 11 in Manhattan, I thought that Republicans were insisting on the issue of Biden's age as a tactic that anything else. It was a good distraction, considering that his opponent, then president of Former, Trump, was just a few years younger and was given the incoherence of rambling.
Republicans may have exaggerated Biden's problems, but they were, as we soon learned, in general, correct. By the time the president was lazy and confused in a stage of debate with Trump only three months after his triumphant speech of the State of the Union, it was clear that something was very, very bad. The debate stage can be a cruel place, and without a prepared speech loaded on a teleprompter, Biden was suddenly naked in the center of attention. It was not a pretty, and suddenly, I was no longer a sustainable presidential candidate.
But, why are we talking about this old news when we have a president who mockens all the ethical norms of his office, violating the Constitution without meaning and accumulating murderers such as Mohammed Bin Salman, the prince of the Saudi crown to whom he concluded the CIA had ordered the murder and disassembly of 2018 of the Washington Post columnist and the Jamal Saudi Jamal Khashoggi?
Biden returns to the news thanks to “the original sin: the decline of President Biden, his cover -up and his disastrous choice to work again”, by the former presenter of CNN Jake Tapper and the correspondent of the White House of Axios Alex Thompson. The book, whose subtitle says it all, has been extracted in the New Yorker and reviewed by other publications. Your publication date is Tuesday.
I tried to have a copy in my hands, but the editorial exploded to me.
In any case, much of the privileged information of the book has been made available that it is possible to present a convincing case, even from distance, that the insistence of driving to run for a second mandate, despite its promise to be a “bridge of a single defense bridge”, and its constitution of the constitution of a self -defaction bridge of a period.
Joba de Heckuva, Joe!
He was as surprised as anyone who drives became the nominee in 2020. I remember seeing him touching Iowa, surely he was too old for work. On stage, he was shouting, his voice rose and fell without any particular reason: “volume confused with passion”, as I wrote at the time.
And yet, despite all his failures, failures and fragilities, he would prefer a deteriorated drum to the corrupt criminal that the oval office currently occupies.
Those who have read “original sin” say it does not contain bombs. What he offers is a detailed description of the systematic effort of the family and the advisors to hide the truth of the American people, and calls the cowardly democratic leaders who knew that Biden did not have until a second term, but they were afraid to cross it.
As the Washington Post said in his review: “The book is a condemnatory story of an elderly president, selfish, protected from reality by a helpful chamber of loyal and members of the United Family for a sense of denial of triumph and a determination of the denial of Trump's denial of the president's aptitude.
The co -author Thompson, for what happens, was one of the few conventional political journalists in aggressively informing about Biden's worsening condition and the fight, I could even call it Gaslighting, to keep it from the public.
For that, the White House correspondent Association. He gave him his main honor in April. In his acceptance speech, Thompson was unwavering.
“The decline of President Biden and his cover -up of the people around him is a reminder that each White House, regardless of his party, is capable of deception,” he said. “But being the truth that narrators also means telling the truth about us.
I take your point. Now we are living with the consequences of our failures.
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