As you already know, many in a media that spent a few years telling us that observations and videos about Joe Biden's cognitive decline were misinformation campaigns and "cheap fakes," we're seeing books getting published by some of those same "journalists" about how bad things really were at the White House.
During an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic (we'll get to that aspect in a minute), the authors of one such "now it can be told" book, "Original Sin," described what's being called a "politburo" that existed consisting of people who were the ones making the actual decisions at the White House.
Alex Thompson: "Small Group Of People" Running The White House Was A Politburo, "That's The Term We Used"https://t.co/VOzdfT3TFU
— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) May 25, 2025
Who were those people? According to Tapper and Thompson's book, two of them were Jill and Hunter Biden. There were others:
ALEX THOMPSON: Mike Donilon, Biden's longtime political liaison, Steve Ricchetti, who was sort of the legislative liaison, plus like a friend, Bruce Reed, at times, depending on his situation with the Biden people, Ron Klain. And then there are some people outside the Politburo bureau that are closer to family, which would be obviously Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, but then Jill's main chief of staff, Anthony Bernal, and sort of his sort of like deputy in some ways, Annie Tomasini, who is often Biden's traveling chief of staff.
JAKE TAPPER: And Jill Biden himself also is part of this. Joe Biden is not like -- it's not Weekend at Bernie's, right? He has some purchase here. He has some agency. And he's aware of some of what's going on. He might be in denial about it, but he's aware of the fact that they are keeping the cabinet away from him, they're keeping some White House staffers away from him, they're keeping members of Congress away from him. He knows what's going on.
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And we already know the Easter Bunny was on that list.
Biden knew what was going on but not enough to apparently mind others taking over things that normally would be the president's job? The framers of the Constitution would see a huge problem with this but the media and too many politicians don't appear to be as alarmed.
Adding an extra layer of richness to this story is the fact that Tapper and Thompson were telling these things to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
And let’s never forget The Atlantic: pic.twitter.com/KRPrBo6MdD
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 17, 2025
After Biden's decline became too obvious to hide, The Atlantic basically admitted the media had a gaslighting campaign about Joe but those lies didn't really matter because the truth was obvious anyway:
“Here is why I think that the ‘cover-up’ of Biden’s ‘true condition’ is beside the point—and why I’m not really vibing with the umbrage-mongering: It’s pretty much impossible to ‘cover up’ for something that is hiding in plain sight,” @MarkLeibovich writes.…
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) May 20, 2025
Ah, "journalism"! The fact that Tapper and Thompson were telling stories about how bad it really was at the Biden White House to Goldberg is like a one-stop "why you should hate the media" shop.
Back to the White House "politburo" -- when do the hearings start?
That is a direct violation of Article II, and we ought to have congressional hearings about it. https://t.co/gdMfhngBzo
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 25, 2025
There should be. But will that happen?
So if anyone but the president of the United States was running the White House why aren't we having congressional hearings and why wasn't there a 25th amendment?
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 25, 2025
His book doesn't answer any of this https://t.co/nw16B1FjSN
Because as the constitution is written in Article II. Section 1
— TheRightWingM 🇺🇸 (@TheRightWingM) May 25, 2025
“The executive Power shall be vested in a ‘Small Group Of People’ of the United States of America.”@jaketapper when will you be having these people on to grill them about their abuses of power & the cover-up? https://t.co/t8w2I1FqYs pic.twitter.com/zhIKKPO8Sd
Also Cabinet officials at the Biden White House were granted anonymity for the book which doesn't seem very "journalism-y" to us either.
Everyone with two eyes and a brain knew that. The only people who insisted otherwise were dirtbag Democrat journos like @jaketapper who decided their job was to protect Biden. https://t.co/ytwrw9ivQB
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 25, 2025
"Do not mock Joe's lifelong stuttering problem" some were told when pointing out Biden's obvious cognitive decline.
Checked the Constitution - no term Politburo or synonym for it.
— DriveBy Geek (@DriveByGeek) May 25, 2025
Anyone going to jail over the fraud foisted on the American people yet?
We won't hold our breath.
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