The book that details the offer to re -elevate former President Joe Biden and the alleged concealment of his mental and physical decline must be released tomorrow.
His authors, Jake Tapper on CNN and Axios– Alex Thompson, Share Slowing claims about Biden’s mental and physical deterioration in 2023 and 2024 in Initial Sin: President Biden’s decline, his concealment and disastrous choice to run again, On May 20.
The upcoming edition of the book is even more commemorative after Biden’s message on Sunday that he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Excerpts from the book, which expired before its publication, does not depict the 46th president or his closest advisers in a flattering light, as they describe in detail the scary cases of Biden’s gaps in mental acuity that were hidden by the public until 2024.
The Cataral Debate against Donald Trump was the moment everything collapsed for Biden.
Former President Joe Biden reports that he is reducing mental and physical health, while he and his team are demanding re -election, is the subject of a new book that is to be published this week. The book’s edition comes only days after Biden revealed that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. (AFP/Getty)
Tapper and Thompson’s book is based on interviews with 200 people, including Congress members, the White House and the campaign insider.
In response to the allegations in the book, Biden’s spokesman Chris Meger said his team “is still waiting for someone, someone to indicate where Joe Biden should decide from the president or to make a presidential address where he is unable to do his job because of a mental decline.”
“In fact, the evidence shows the opposite – he was a very effective president,” Migger added.
The independent looks at five of the key absorbents from the book:
Assistants discussed the placement of a biden in a wheelchair
Biden’s assistants discussed the possibility of putting it in a wheelchair if the re -election offer was successful, the book claims.
“The physical deterioration of Biden – most clearly in stopping his walk – became so difficult that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair, but they couldn’t do it only after the election,” Tapper and Thompson wrote.
The assistants of the then president thought he was not politically viable to have a biden in a wheelchair during the campaign.
Due to the age of Biden, his doctor, Kevin O’Conor, wrote: “They privately said that if there is another bad fall, a wheelchair may be required for what can be a difficult recovery.”
Forgetting friend George Clooney and names of long -standing assistants
Biden failed to recognize George Clooney, one of the most famous celebrities in the world, who has known for nearly two decades while attending the Hollywood raising funds in June 2024. Unnamed “Hollywood VIP” said it was like watching someone who is not alive, according to the book.
Biden did not recognize George Clooney, one of the most famous actors in the world and a man he has known for nearly two decades – with a brilliant Hollywood fund.
According to an unnamed Hollywood VIP, which witnessed the interaction, Biden seemed to be a shell of his ex -Self in raising funds, which took place in June 2024.
“It was like looking at someone who is not alive,” a VIP recalled, who saw the interaction before the Clooney show. “It was scary. And we all looked at each other. It was so awful.”
During this interaction, the 46th president, who was led by an assistant, had to be encouraged to remember who Clooney was, according to the first -hand VIP account.
“It wasn’t good,” they remembered the authors. “This thing, the moment when you recognize someone you know-particularly famous person who makes AF ***** G raising funds for you-he was fun. It was uncomfortable.”
“Do you know George,” said the assistant, repeating the full name of the actor, stressed on the surname: “George CouponS “
“Oh, yes!” Biden replied. “Hi, George!”
The Biden team rejected the book and said that “they are still waiting for someone to point out” where they have to make a “presidential decision or to make a presidential address where he is unable to do his job due to mental decline.” (Getty Images)
Other accounts in the book claim that Biden has also forgotten the names of some of his longtime helpers, including national security advisor Jake Sullivan.
The authors write that once Biden forgot the name of Sullivan in December 2022 and called it “Steve” several times. But Sullivan said he “doesn’t remember” about the incident while talking to PoliticoAt the security summit last week.
“I don’t remember what has ever happened,” Sullivan said. “And I’ll tell you, Joe Biden knows my name. He knows my name … as I talk to him, even now, so I was surprised to read this in the book.”
Biden ‘Total F *** Ed’ Kamala Harris’ Campaign: Top Assistant
David Plauf, who was attracted to Kamala Harris’s campaign after Biden withdrew from the race last summer, did not analyze words, saying that the then president “completely endured us” and did not drop out of the race.
Harris David Plufu’s best campaign advised that Biden has “completely kicked us out” and has not dropped out of the race soon, according to the book. Plouffe said Harris’s campaign was AF *** Ing Nightmare. (Getty Images)
Prior to working with Harris, Plouffe managed former President Barack Obama’s winning campaign in 2008 and served as a senior councilor in his White House.
Plouffe was cited by calling Harris’s 107-day campaign “AF *** ing nightmare”, which he said was “all Biden”.
White House doctor wanted the president to have more time to rest
Kevin O’Connor, a Biden doctor, claims that he has more time to rest in his schedule, according to an excerpt in the book. “[O’Connor] He has long expressed private concern about the fee that the Presidency has taken over Biden’s health. The doctor often argues with Biden’s political officials to get more time to rest in the president’s schedule. “
“Sometimes O’Connor barned that Biden’s employees were trying to kill him while he was trying to keep him alive,” according to the authors.
Cabinet secretaries frozen by Biden’s assistants
A handful of cabinet secretaries claim that months have passed without direct access to the president.
“Instead, they informed the older White House assistants, who would then talk to Biden,” Tapper said as he promoted CNN’s book. Some of Biden’s office spoke with the authors, but provided for anonymity.
“We have not been accessing it for months,” a secretary quoted the book. “Obviously, there was a deliberate White House strategy to make him meet as few people as needed.”
With additional reporting from Gustaf Kylander, John Bowden and Graig Graziosi