Original Sin: How Biden Team Fucked the Americans and Lost Presidential Race


Horrifically, for Democrats, in June 2024 a debacle of a debate against Trump confirmed what Washington insiders had only dared whisper but what most voters had known: Biden should not have sought re-election.

Less than a month later, he was out, replaced as Democratic nominee by his vice-president, Kamala Harris.

Now, Trump runs wild and Biden’s legacy is buried beneath a heap of unkind reporting – and bouquets of sympathy, after news of his cancer.

“It was an abomination,”

one prominent Democratic strategist is quoted as saying by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.

“He stole an election from the Democratic party; he stole it from the American people.”

Tapper and Thompson concur. Over 350 engrossing pages, they deliver a stinging judgment, trenchantly written and well-sourced.

The two reporters spoke to about 200 people, including members of Congress, White House staffers and campaign insiders.

Some reportedly sounded the alarm about Biden’s mental acuity and desperate efforts by aides to hide his deterioration. The alarm was not heeded.

Tapper is CNN’s lead DC anchor and chief Washington correspondent. Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios and a CNN contributor.

His speech at the recent White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was one for the ages.

“President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception,”

Thompson said.

“We, myself included, missed a lot of this story. And some people trust us less because of it. We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being at such lows.”

Original Sin begins with a bang. Its first chapter is titled “He Fucked Us”, from an on-record quote by David Plouffe, senior adviser to the Harris campaign, before that manager of Barack Obama’s 2008 winning effort.

“We got so screwed by Biden as a party,”

Plouffe says. Harris was a “great soldier”, but the race was “a fucking nightmare.

“And it’s all Biden … He totally fucked us.”

Try putting that toothpaste back in the tube. On the other hand, Plouffe doesn’t reveal what knew about Biden’s fitness and when she knew it.

Biden loyalists return the favor, too, the authors write:

“Many … felt that Harris didn’t put in the work and was also just not a very nice person. Some quietly expressed buyer’s remorse: They should have picked [Gretchen] Whitmer,”

the Democratic governor of Michigan.

Tapper and Thompson report cold political facts. In 2020, identity politics played an outsize role in Biden’s VP pick.

“It boils down to whether he has a Hispanic woman or a Black woman,”

Harry Reid, the former Senate Democratic leader, said then.

Tapper and Thompson lay bare a sense of betrayal.

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