6 h. ago Democrats find unlikely defender over Biden decline revelations – Trump’s former press secretary

Kayleigh McEnany served as Donald Trump’s press secretary during the final months of his first term

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20 h. ago Original Sin book review: How we were fools to be fooled by Joe Biden’s people

Since this book was written we have learned Joe Biden has prostate cancer. The sad news was greeted with sympathy from all sides of the political divide, including Donald Trump. That would have been the response if, as president, Biden had declared in 2023 that he wasn’t going to run again on the basis of his age; there would have been lots of love, as there was at the start of George Clooney’s celebrated open letter to Biden in The New York Times telling him he loved him, but it was time to go.

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4 d. ago Jake Tapper tears into ‘unethical, sleazy’ Hunter who acted like Biden family’s ‘chief of staff’ despite being ‘prone to horrible decisions’

Biden camp has dismissed book’s reporting and defended ‘very effective’ president

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4 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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4 d. ago Rob Reiner shouted at Doug Emhoff during debate party that Biden would ‘lose our f***ing democracy,’ book claims

Hollywood fundraiser with Democratic governors turned into ‘debate watch horror show’

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4 d. ago Biden’s White House chief of staff made all the ‘big decisions,’ was nicknamed ‘Prime Minister’: book

Ron Klain served as Biden’s chief of staff from the start of his term until February 2023

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4 d. ago ‘Like watching Grandpa who shouldn’t be driving’: Biden’s health worried aides back in 2020 campaign, book says

Watching former President Joe Biden film campaign videos in 2020 was like watching “a different person,” one Democrat said, according to a new book.

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4 d. ago Exact moment of Kamala Harris' blistering split with Joe Biden revealed in bombshell new book

Former Vice President Kamala Harris was furious after former President Joe Biden put on a hat endorsing President Donald Trump for president during her presidential campaign.

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4 d. ago Jon Stewart lashes CNN for hawking anchor’s Biden book: ‘F***ing weird ... Don’t news people have to tell you what they know?’

‘It’s just fun to watch them not only continue to push the book in light of this difficult news, but to actually frame this difficult news as perhaps even more of a reason to buy this book,’ Jon Stewart quipped on Monday night

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4 d. ago Joe Biden’s granddaughter rips Jake Tapper’s new book on former president’s hidden decline

Naomi Biden lashes it as a ‘bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies written by irresponsible self promoting journalists out to make a quick buck’

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5 d. ago Forgetting George Clooney to mulling a wheelchair: Five key takeaways from upcoming Biden book

Excerpts of the book, out May 20, that have leaked before its official release, do not portray the 46th president or his closest advisers in a flattering light

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6 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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7 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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9 d. ago MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Biden whistleblowers are finally revealing who REALLY ran America... but I know an even sicker scandal that's yet to be outed

If there aren't congressional hearings over this conspiracy, this epic lie, this country is in deep, deep trouble. Subpoena them all. Will anyone have the guts?

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1 week ago Jake Tapper admits it’s ‘fair’ for conservatives to bash him over past coverage of Biden following bombshell book

‘I think some of the criticism is fair, to be honest,’ Jake Tapper said on Wednesday. ‘I look back at my coverage during the Biden years – and I did cover some of these issues, but not enough’

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1 week ago ‘Diminished’ Biden didn’t recognize George Clooney at actor’s fundraiser, book claims

‘It was like watching someone who was not alive,’ Hollywood VIP claims in new book from Axios and CNN reporters

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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 Jill Biden's explosive secret White House diary could make her and Joe $30 million in tell

Joe and Jill Biden are re-emerging from their post-White House life in time to push back against a spate of new books revealing embarrassing details about the former president's declining health.

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2 w. ago Biden aides discussed a cognitive test but decided against it, book reveals

Debate around Joe Biden’s mental acuity and his age was a critical issue during the run up to the 2024 electionJoe Biden’s top staff debated the possibility of the embattled Democratic president taking a cognitive test last year as he geared up for re-election but eventually decided against the idea, a new book is set to reveal.Debate around Biden’s mental acuity and his age was an acute issue during the run up to the 2024 election, which eventually saw Biden step down from his re-election campaign in favor of his vice-president, Kamala Harris. Continue reading...

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