3 d. ago Trump questions Biden’s legitimacy as Republicans seek to capitalize on details of his decline in new book

In release of Original Sin, Trump and Republicans see a well-timed distraction, writes John Bowden

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5 d. ago Original Sin: book on Biden’s health decline reopens Democratic party’s wounds

The book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson presents a scathing account of a president cocooned from reality – and fuels questions about his role in the partyGeorge Clooney “felt a knot form in his stomach” as a frail and diminished Joe Biden approached him, apparently failing to recognise one of the most famous actors in the world. “George Clooney,” an aide eventually clarified for the US president. “Oh, yeah!” Biden said. “Hi, George!”The excruciating encounter at a glitzy Los Angeles fundraiser last June is one of several damning anecdotes contained in Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, an upcoming book by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Beto O’Rourke says Joe Biden ‘failed this country’ amid revelations of former president’s decline in office

Texas Democrat says ‘credibility problem is going to persist up until when Democrats say ‘we f***** up’’

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6 d. ago Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret Sullivan

A new book has fueled controversy over press handling of the ex-president’s decline. But that distracts from a bigger problemWith a new book out about Joe Biden’s failed re-election campaign, a media reckoning is in full swing.It goes something like this: mainstream journalism failed the voters. Reporters were complicit; they didn’t tell us how much the elderly president had declined. They didn’t dig beneath the surface of what Biden aides were doing as they covered up the physical and cognitive decline of the leader of the free world.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Joe Biden's troubling interview with special counsel Robert Hur is revealed in bombshell leaked audio

Newly-released recordings of Joe Biden speaking to special counsel Robert Hur in 2023 show the declining president's memory lapses as he struggles to remember when his son Beau died.

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8 d. ago Democrats keep trying to move past the cover up around Biden’s decline. It’s not helping their credibility

Democrats are trying to rebuild trust with voters. Why is Joe Biden trying to rewrite history when only his loyalists believe him, asks John Bowden

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8 d. ago Jill Biden shut down conversations on Joe's mental decline and became 'one of the most powerful first ladies in history' running the White House behind the scenes, new book claims

In a jaw-dropping new expose, Original Sin lifts the lid on what insiders claim is the White House's deepest secret - Jill Biden's iron grip on power and the lengths she went to protect her husband.

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1 week ago Inside the secret wheelchair plan hatched by Joe Biden's aides to hide his decline until after the election

As Joe Biden aged in the White House and his condition deteriorated, those closest to him hatched plans to prop him up, even if it meant putting him in a wheelchair.

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1 week ago Biden destroyed Harris bid by staying in race too long, top adviser says in book

David Plouffe says Biden ‘totally fucked us’ and calls Harris’s 107-day sprint against Trump a ‘fucking nightmare’Joe Biden “totally fucked us” by leaving it too late to drop out of the 2024 US presidential election, a former top campaign aide to Kamala Harris has told the authors of a new book.David Plouffe, who was manager of Barack Obama’s winning 2008 campaign and a senior adviser in his White House, was drafted in to help Harris’s bid for president after the declining Biden withdrew from the race last summer. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump says Biden caused the economic downturn. That’s malarkey | Steven Greenhouse

The US president is blaming ‘Biden’s economy’. In fact, there is one key cause of the poor showing – and it’s not his predecessorWhile Donald Trump delusionally asserts that “we’re celebrating the most successful first 100 days of any administration in American history”, last week’s economic news emphatically refutes that. Trump’s commerce department reported on Wednesday that the US economy – in a sharp and dismaying reversal – shrank in the first quarter of this year.That of course is when Trump returned to the White House, but Trump, true to form, denied that he was in any way responsible for the surprisingly bad economic news. Trump, who has spent his life blaming others and refusing to admit mistakes, was quick to blame Joe Biden for the downturn. The nation’s gross domestic product declined at a 0.3% annual rate in the quarter, after adjusting for inflation.Steven Greenhouse is a journalist and author focusing on labor and the workplace, as well as economic and legal issues Co...

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