Joe Biden, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
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The Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha blasted CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson for keeping silent on details about former President Joe Biden’s failing health and mental acuity for the sake of publishing their book.
Former President Joe Biden struggled to perform even the basic tasks of a political candidate during his abortive 2024 re-election bid, with even pre-recorded campaign videos junked as “unusable,” according to a bombshell new book about the 82-year-old’s cognitive decline.
A code of silence among Democratic elites and the media prohibited any public talk of Joe Biden’s decline—until it was too late.
Alex Thompson, co-author of the new Biden book, "Original Sin," talks with The D.C. Brief about his reporting on Biden's decline
Tapper and Thompson have hired a crisis PR firm, Heller Co., led by Risa Heller, to navigate the book’s release and roll out, as Breaker Media, co-written by former Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Cartwright, reported.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy responded to new information in the upcoming book "Original Sin" by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson and the nely-released audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur demonstrating just how out of it President Biden was mentally,