… “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” written by Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, relies on insiders who shielded the public from seeing Biden in decline.
In a new interview, Thompson said Biden aides believed “picking up the slack” for the former president was preferable to allowing President Donald Trump to return to the White House, according to the New York Post.
In the interview, Shannon Bream of Fox News noted one passage of the book that captured the mindset of aides who believed Biden “just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years. He’d only have to show proof of life every once in a while. … His aides could pick up the slack.”
Thompson noted that one source in the book is “basically admitting he shouldn’t be running again.”
“Well, this person went on to say that when you’re voting for a president, you’re voting for the aides around him. But these aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides. These are White House aides,” Thompson said, according to the Huffington Post.
“These were unelected people. And one of the things that really I think comes out in our reporting here is that if you believe — and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy — you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things, which I think is what this person is talking about,” Thompson said.
