After the bombshell interview, the entire political environment was shaken. The trio had sat down: CNN’s Jake Tapper, Axios’ Alex Thompson, and Megyn Kelly herself, to discuss their explosive new book, Original Sin, rarely heard-before details of alleged cognitive decline of President Biden and cover-up operation by Democratic insiders were disclosed. These revelations are earth-shaking; sources close to the president admitted he had been at least clearly at some point no longer fit to handle emergency situations by 2024.
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According to the writers, by 2024, and somehow either directly or indirectly never actually informing the American public at all, Biden’s cabinet expressed its serious doubt that he would be able to respond to any real crises that confronted the country. One source is even explicit: “Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.” Who were these shadow figures, though? Kelly pressed for names, but the list itself has kept from the public varified—for now.
Tapper, a co-writer of the book, said that even he had underestimated the degree to which Joe Biden was continuing in his decline through the 2020 election. He remembered dismissing out-of-hand, complaints from Lara Trump, who on air, had accused Biden of cognitive trouble. “‘She saw something I didn’t,’ Tapper admitted.”
The book goes even farther, covering all the public landslide gaffes made by Biden in memory—forgetting the name of Hamas, mixing up world leaders, and even having that chilling moment when he called Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, who had died just weeks prior. Behind the scenes, Democratic officials were freaking out, and the media publicly tried to discount these signs as cheap fakes or insignificant gaffes.
The ghostwriter who recorded Biden in 2017 believes those tapes reveal marked memory lapses and clearly date the problems far before his official entry into public office. Tapper described the decline as a slow deterioration hastened by personal tragedies such as the death of his son Beau and the legal troubles of Hunter Biden.
Kelly continuously chided Tapper, asking why he and his colleagues in journalism declined to press Biden hard on his mental fitness. Taper defends himself saying that after the election occurred, he began to speak to over two hundred Democratic insiders; only when Trump was no longer president did the insiders finally admit to the truth. But yet, why did it take until then for the media to come out and say it when so many at least publicly recognized it much earlier?
Much was spoken in the interview about the cover-ups in place to prevent scrutiny of Biden. White House aides, apparently, dismissed any such concerns as usual wing nut propaganda, whilst supplied allied media fed the idea that “Biden was sharp as ever.” Yet behind closed doors, his closest advisors allegedly contrasted by scrambling to control his public appearances.
Kelly dropped yet another chilling thought onto her viewers. So if his decline had been that imminent before the 2024 election, what does it say about the coming days of his presidency? The book does not absolve Biden per se; it indicts an entire system that allowed his deterioration.
Reactions were mixed. Some said they are applauding Kelly for holding the media accountable after all these years; others said it is just trashy guilt-shaming of Biden. One commenter wrote, “I am glad it is finally said out loud. This is non-partisan—it is about basic competence.” Another replied, “It feels like a hit job. Where was the enthusiasm when Trump was mixing up names every other day?”
Whatever stand you have on this, one thing is for sure: This argument regarding Biden’s fitness is here to stay, and with the election close, the consequences from these revelations could very well mark out the political scene in an unforeseen way.
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Then what? If the claims made in the book can be corroborated, this might well mean a reckoning for the Democrats—not just for Biden but for that system that has so long implemented a silence-over-his-decline policy. The question that must be asked of the media next is: Will they have learned from this, or are we apt to be re-living history in another go-around by 2024?
