A Fortnoming book that promises new explosive details about the mental and physical decline of former Joseph R. Biden Jr., while in the White House he has revived the issue of how his AIDS and the main Democrats managed his decision to run for re -election.
The book, “Original without” by Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson de Axios, tells how Mr. Biden’s advisors trampled the discussion of their related limitations, including internal AIDS conerns, external concerns of democratic allies and scrutiny by journalists. Mr. Biden had a long prone leg, but while forgotten family names and faces and showed his physical frilicia, the authors write, attendees wrapped him in a protective political cocoon.
At the same time, the book depends so much on anonymous supply, very few AIDS or elected officials are cited by its name, which reveals the durable chill that Mr. Biden’s loyal have chosen a Democratic Party that still fears publicly dealing with what many say that in private it was their reduced skill to campaign and serve in office. Mr. Biden has already begun to press against the end of his presidency, forwarding so that the interviews try to shape their legacy.
The book does not contain any explosive revelation that changes the broad perception of whether Mr. Biden, now 82 years, was suitable for serving as president. On the other hand, it is a collection of narrower events and observations that reflect its decline. The authors write about a “cover -up”, although their book shows an internal Biden circle that spends more time hitting their collective head in the sand on the decreasing skills of the president who schemes to hide evidence of his deficiencies.
The New York Times forced a copy of the book, which will be released next Tuesday. There are six conclusions here.
Biden forgot the names, even the people I had met for years.
Duration of his 2020 campaign and during his presidency, Mr. Biden forgot the names of the assistants and allies for a long time, according to the book.
He describes him forgetting the name of Mike Donilon, a loyal assistant who had worked for him in the early 1980s, and not recognizing actor George Clooney. He also forgot the names of Jake Sullivan, his national security advisor, and Kate Be Bezingfield, Communications Director of the White House, according to the book, along with Jaime Harrison, whom Mr. Biden had chosen to be president of the National Democratic Committee.
In another case, Mr. Biden confused his Secretary of Health, Xavier Becerra, with his Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, the authors write. Duration A meeting on abortion rights, Mr. Biden confused Alabama with Texas, according to the book.
People described how AIDS and allies told the authors that Mr. Biden seemed fragile at meetings and that they worried that they needed a wheelchair in their second mandate. Cabinet meetings were largely written for him even when journalists were not present, according to the book. In a rare account, representative Mike Quigley, a Democrat of Illinois, described Mr. Biden’s physical skills making a trip to Ireland as similar to what he saw when his own father died of Parkinson’s disease.
Mr. Biden’s response to the accounts is not included in the book, nor are they answers in the record of many of the AIDS, Democrats and other figures he names. (In fact, the extensive use of anonymous sources makes it difficult to confirm the precision of many of the statements). Mr. Biden’s spokesman Chris Meagher said the former president’s team had not yet seen a copy of the book and had not consulted in his verification of facts.
“We are not going to respond to each part of this book,” said Mr. Meagher. “We continually expect anything that shows where Joe Biden had to make a presidential decision or where he threatened with national security or where he could not do his job. In fact, the evidence points to the opposite: he was a very effective president.”
Few Biden allies, even now, would talk openly about their decline.
Almost a year after the pressure of the Democrats forced Mr. Biden to leave the presidential career, the book shows that the party is not willing to consider publicly with the choice of their choice to support Mr. Biden as nominated while doing so.
The reluctance of many democratic leaders and experts to express criticism without the anonymity mantle, also after his devastating defeat, suggests a fear of speaking. It also points to a conscience that now say that Mr. Biden should not have run in 2024 could cause questions about why they said nothing when it mattered.
Ultimately, the most powerful people of the party made a colossal erroneous trial of the situation or recognized the problem, but refused to press Mr. Biden or the White House about it.
“No Democrat at the White House or the leaders in Capitol Hill raised any Doubs, either private with the president or publicly, about the second Biden race,” reports the book.
The authors write that Secretary of State Antony J. Shine asked Mr. Biden gently if he was ready to assume a re -election offer, but that the president hastened him, it would be fine. Ron Klain, the first chief of Cabinet of Mr. Biden, also approached if the president should work again in conversations with other staff members, according to the book, but he never went anywhere.
Democratic attendees seek to change.
It is a long tradition for Washington Bigwigs to use books to blame another person directly. The unusual thing about this book is that almost all the players who agreed to be interviewed, 200, wrote the authors, told Mr. Biden and his small circle of aid for the elderly.
The book calls the internal circle of the Biden attendees who made decisions and controlled the flow of information for, Mr. Biden, “El Politburo”, a little flattering reference to the policy formulators of the Soviet Union Duration of the era of communism.
One of the few people cited in the registry is David Plouffe, the former campaign manager of Barack Obama. The book describes it as leaving retirement to try to choose Vice President Kamala Harris after Mr. Biden retired.
“Biden submitted us so at the same time,” says the book cites Mr. Plouffe, adding a more vulgar choice of words to describe what the president did to the Harris campaign.
But Mr. Plouffe’s claims acquit him and other prominent democrats of his responsibility for her.
The strangers were surprised by Biden’s skills.
An issue through the book is that people who had not seen Mr. Biden in person for a long time were surprised by their appearance when they did.
Former representative Brian Higgins, a New York Democrat, is cited in the book saying that the possible cognitive decline of Mr. Biden “was evident for most people who saw him.” David Morehouse, a former Democratic campaign assistant turned into a hockey executive, said Biden “was nothing more than bones” after seeing it in a line of photos in Philadelphia.
And Mr. Clooney, an outstanding Democratic donor, was so upset about his interaction with the president who wrote an opinion trial of the New York Times that he asked him to abandon.
Other strangers gave the alarm that was not heard by the inner circle of Mr. Biden. Ari Emanuel, the Hollywood agent whose brother Rahm was Mr. Biden’s ambassador to Japan, ended in a shout match in 2023 with Mr. Klain about whether the president’s campaign should continue.
A Democrat silently pressed for a primary Biden challenge.
One of the greatest regrets of Democrats on last year is his failure to hold a competitive primary contest. But at least one Democrat worked behind the scene to try to make it come true, according to the book.
In 2023, Bill Daley, who served as Chief of Cabinet of the White House for Mr. Obama, sought to persuade the Democratic governors, including JB Pritzker or Illinois, Gavin Newsom of California and Andy Beshear of Kentucky to challenge Mr. Biden in the Democratic primary career, reports the book.
He found that he did not find makers.
Now, or of course, the Democrats expect their 2028 nomination contest to be full and highly competitive. And with many at the party that asks for a generational change, some 2028 applicants who were unconditional allies of Mr. Biden in 2024 can face a new pressure to finally address if they were wrong about their ability to be president.
The protection of Jill Biden or her husband grew as she aged.
After Mr. Biden, the book is harder in the closest assistants of his family. Anthony Bernal, the record to Jill Biden, the first lady, draws part of the toughest scrutiny of the book.
The authors write that Mr. Bernal could close any conversation about the president’s age and mental action by his White House AIDS, “Jill is not going to like this.”
Dr. Biden is described as a fierce defender of her husband who did not mind listening to any criticism of her skills or political trial and became more involved in her decision making as she grew.
When a donor suggested in 2022 that Mr. Biden should not seek re -election, Dr. Biden remained silent, a reaction that regretted and promised not to repeat, the authors write.
“I cannot believe that I have not defended Joe,” then Count Aid is cited.
