May 26, 2025 • 18 mins
1. Health Disclosure
- We open with a shocking announcement that Joe Biden has been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 and bone metastasis.
- It notes that the cancer is hormone-sensitive, which allows for treatment options.
- The timing and severity of the diagnosis raise questions about transparency, with some medical professionals suggesting it would be unusual for such a diagnosis to be made without prior knowledge.
2. Allegations of Concealment
- The author questions whether Biden’s diagnosis was withheld from the public during his presidency.
- This is tied to broader accusations that Biden’s cognitive decline was also covered up by his team and the Democratic Party.
3. Cognitive Decline and DOJ Interview
- The episode references audio from a DOJ interview with Biden, reportedly showing significant mental lapses, long pauses, and confusion.
- It criticizes the White House for not releasing the full audio earlier and suggests this was done to hide Biden’s mental state.
4. Book Excerpts and Media Reports
- A new book titled "Original Sin" by Jake Tapper and others is cited, claiming that five unnamed individuals were effectively running the country during Biden’s presidency.
- The book reportedly includes disturbing anecdotes from Biden’s 2020 campaign, such as:
- Use of teleprompters with scripted questions.
- Heavily edited videos to mask cognitive issues.
- Biden forgetting names of key staff members.
5. Political Fallout
- The podcast includes reactions from Democratic insiders, media figures, and celebrities, expressing shock and frustration over Biden’s condition and the alleged cover-up.
- It ends with a call for Congress to investigate the matter, framing it as a potential threat to democracy.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that.
If you're the FBI director and you don't know what
that meant, that meant assassination. And it says it loud
and clear. Now, he wasn't very confident, but he was
confident enough to know what that meant. And when you
add his history to that, if he had a clean history,
(00:22):
he doesn't. He's a dirty pup.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good Monday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got three
blockbuster stories for you. First up, Joe Biden announces the
diagnosis of prostate cancer. When did this happen and was
there actually a cover up to conceal it from you,
the American voter. We'll have the latest on that in
just a second. Up next, the her audio has finally
(00:49):
been released, and it's more damning than we could have
ever imagined, as the cognitive decline of the president was
on full display, and now we understand why they blocked
it from you ever we're hearing it until now. And finally,
the new book that is out as saying that Joe
Biden wasn't actually the president of the United States of America.
In fact, there's now new accusations that there was five
(01:11):
different people that we're running the country. We'll have the
details on that as well. Now, before we get to that,
I want to talk to you real quick about the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Most of us, when
we go to bed at night, we don't have to
worry about there being an explosion that awakes us in
the middle of the evening. We climb into our beds,
we turn off the lights, and we sleep in relative safety.
(01:33):
But the people of Israel are facing NonStop threats on
seven different fronts. They do have a red alert system
to warn of incoming attacks, and last month, red alerts
blared nearly fifty times every single day, something we can't
imagine living with. The toll on families and first responders
is brutal, and right now, Israel's first responders are facing
(01:57):
an urgent need. Life saving supplies are running low, and
that's why the work of the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews is so critical. Your gift of only one
hundred and fifty dollars will help provide first responders with helmets,
flat jackets, medical rescue bags, and even armored service vehicles
to keep people alive. Your gift is urgently needed, and
(02:19):
if you want to stand with the people of Israel,
you can call eight to eight four eight eight IFCJ.
That's eight eight eight four eight eight four three two five.
You can also give securely online at IFCJ dot org.
That's if CJ dot org. It's the forty seven Morning
(02:40):
Update and it starts right now, story number one. In
a shocking statement coming from the Biden family, former President
Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that is
characterized by a glease And score of nine, his office
revealed in a statement on Sunday. In the press release
from Biden's personal office feel that while Biden's prostate cancer
(03:02):
represents a quote more aggressive form of the disease, the
former President's cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, saying this
last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new
finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms.
On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer characterized by
(03:22):
a Gleason score of nine grade group five, which metastasized
to the bone. While this represents a more aggressive form
of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone sensitive,
which allows for effective management. The president is family are
reviewing treatment options with his physicians now. The President's statement
(03:43):
is one that has a lot of people talking because
traditionally it takes a significant amount of time for this
type of cancer to get to this point where it
is actually metastasizing to the bone, and many doctors are
now asking the question, when did they know this and
what were they hiding from the American people. Now. I
want to be clear, my thoughts and prayers are with
(04:04):
President Joe Biden, as I'm sure yours are as well.
But we also know that the same people that are
around Joe Biden now were the same ones that lied
and covered up his cognitive decline. And the question everyone
should be asking is did he really just find out
about this or were the people around him making sure
the American people didn't know about it from the very beginning. Unfortunately,
(04:27):
is because of their actions on the President's cognitive decline
that we have to ask these types of questions. There
are also many doctors that are putting out different things
on social media about this type of cancer. For example,
one doctor online said it this way, Prostate cancer is
the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and
(04:48):
to watch its progress to bone metastasis. The PSA blood
test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even
with the most aggressive form, it is a five to
seven year journey without treatment before it becomes metastasized, meaning
it would be malpractice for this patient to show up
and be first diagnosed with a metasticized disease in May
(05:11):
of twenty twenty five. It is highly likely we are
carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House
tenure and the American people were uninformed. Now, there wouldn't
be this type of conversation if it wasn't for the
massive cover up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline, especially
in a new book which we'll talk about in a moment,
(05:32):
that is saying that Joe Biden's decline was being covered
up before he even became president. One thing that is
for sure is Donald Trump's words that he used in
his post saying quote, Malanie and I are saddened to
hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis extender warmus and
best wishes to Joe and the family, and we wish
Joe a fast and successful recovery. I couldn't agree more
(05:56):
with President Donald Trump. But this doesn't mean that we
cannot ask questions about if this diagnosis had actually been
concealed from the American people so that the Democrats could
try to win the last election. Unfortunately, if you're not
happy with this question being asked, it may be because
you were helping cover up the Cogniti decline of Joe Biden.
As I mentioned earlier. Next story number two, we exclusively
(06:20):
now have the prosecutor's audio of the tapes where Joe
Biden was being asked questions about classified documents and where
they were stored. What it revealed is even more shocking
than I could have imagined. Now we understand exactly why
the DOJ and Joe Biden's team went to make sure
you never heard any of this. Yes, some of the
(06:42):
transcripts were released, but it did not put into context
just how long some of the stalls and pauses and
meandering was during the interview. Axios obtained the audio of
Robert Hurris's twenty twenty three interview of Joe Biden, which
show repeated massive mental lapses as he struggled to remember
(07:03):
words and dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses. Biden's White House
didn't release it last year, and now we know exactly why.
Here is one example of just how bad it was
for Joe Biden when he was asked a simple question
that he never answered about where he was keeping these documents,
(07:23):
and instead the president rambled for more than four minutes.
Not only that, his team even said maybe we should
take a break, and Joe Biden didn't seem to get
the clue that it was time for him to stop
the bleeding.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
During Chambers Road and.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Or got into the head Biden Center, the Biden answer
your book, where did you keep peepers that lad to
those things that you were actively working?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Well, I I I I I I don't know. This
is what twenty seventeen eighteen, that period is.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Remember in this time frame, my son is uh either
been deployed or is dying and UH, and so if
it was UH. And by the way, there were still
(08:34):
a lot of people at the time when I got
out of the sender that were encouraging me to run
in this period, UH, except the president.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I'm not being They're not a mean thing to say.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Man.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
He just thought that she had a better shot of
winning the president than I did.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And so I hadn't. I hadn't at this point, you don't.
I'm a band.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I hadn't walked away from the idea that I might
run for office again if our rant agend been running
for president and uh, and so.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
What was happening though, when when bot die uh got
mayed thirtyears?
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Uh in twenty eighteen, when the twenty fifteen and died
May twenty fifteen, maybe it's twenty fifteen or eat that.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Much of the months or when he goes here? That's right,
That's that's it. And what's happened in the meantime is
that UH has and.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Trump gets elected in November of twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, sixteen,
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Alright, so you wanna have twenty seventeen years. That's when
you left off it. Uh in January time said okay,
but that's when something had sworn in at the right hand,
would right?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Quite?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Kay, athlete and uh in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Bow had passed and uh, man, it.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Is this personal.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
The genesis of the book, and the title promised me
Dad was a Uh. I know they're all close to
your sons and daughters, but.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Bo is.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Like my right arm, and that was my last.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
These guys were a year and a day apart, and
they could finish each other's sentences. And bo I used
to go home on the train and if period.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
That I was still in the sentence.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Anyway, do you remember there was pressure, not pressure. BO
knew how much I knew around and uh, and it
sounds maybe it sounds so everybody knew how close you were.
(11:46):
I mean there was not anybody knew would to wonder
whether or not anyway, And so I wonder you a break, No,
I let me just keep.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
After her report was released, the White House went into
full attack mode. Joe Biden slammed her for asking about
when bo died. The Vice President Kamala Harris went out
and had a press conference slamming anyone that said that
there was a cognitive decline of Joe Biden. What we
now know is her was respectful, kind, and almost clearly
(12:22):
felt sorry for the President of the United States of America.
And when he said he wasn't going to charge Joe
Biden because no jury would find him guilty because of
his massive cognitive decline. We now understand he wasn't lying
at all. And the big question now is who was
actually running the country. And here is story number three.
The Atlantic has come out with a new article entitled
(12:45):
an Autopsy Report on Biden's in office decline. The headline
reads this way about the new book Original Sin. That
book says this, five people were running the country and
Joe Biden is at best a senior member of the board. Now,
this new book that has come out, Jake Tapper is
(13:06):
one of the authors of it from CNN is now
describing a presidency without a president, where there were five people,
none of them actually named in this book, who were
running the country and calling all of the shots. We
also are now learning that the cognitive decline of the
president was massive even before he became president of the
(13:29):
United States of America. For example, three years later, on
the presidential campaign trail, Biden's struggles became more obvious to
those around him. Tapper and Thompson report in twenty twenty,
for example, members of Biden's inner circle gave the candidate
a teleprompter with scripted questions for a local news interview
his dwindling communicative and cognitive abilities. Aids were shocked as
(13:54):
they said they couldn't rely on Biden to stay on
message and he often had a very short attention. The
book's most astounding, previously unreported story from Biden's twenty twenty
campaign concerns his staff's attempts to create videos of the
candidates speaking to voters over zoom Tapper and Thompson's description
(14:15):
of this is worth quoting at length, saying this, Biden
would sit in a room with several monitors beaming the
faces of real Americans in front of him so they
could discuss issues of importance. You have to remember this
was during the time of COVID. The videos came back
hours of footage. Some on the team couldn't believe their eyes.
(14:36):
The videos were horrible. One top Democrat said he couldn't
follow the conversation at all. I couldn't believe it set
a second Democrat who hadn't seen Biden in a few years.
It was like a different person. It was incredible. This
was like watching Grandpa who shouldn't be driving. Yes, they're
referring to Joe Biden when he was running for president.
(14:58):
In twenty twenty, special team was brought in and told
to edit the videos down to make them arable, if
only a few minutes worth. They had to get quote creative.
The authors go on to write, edited the videos likely
appeared fine the viewers, Biden no worse than any other
senior on Zoom, but two of the Democrats who were
involved in the film's production together were dumbfounded, saying, quote,
(15:22):
I didn't think he could be president. The second Democrats said,
after what they'd seen, they couldn't understand how Biden could
be capable of doing the job. And that's not the
only thing that apparently is being revealed in this book
that comes out on Tuesday. Another example of just how
bad things were quote in twenty twenty two, according to
(15:42):
one witness, Biden found himself unable to remember the names
of his own national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, Steve he
called him at least twice, or his communications director Kate Bettingfield,
whom Biden once resorted to callings. That's not the only
thing that we learned from this book and the excerpts.
(16:04):
As some high ranking Democrats quoted anonymously in the book
put it to Tapar and Thompson. After Biden's disaster's debate
with Trump last June, they said, quote, just who the
hell is running the country? Question mark. At least one
unnamed source close to the Biden administration was willing to
provide the authors with an answer. And this is the
(16:24):
part that should make every American angry. Quote. Five people
were running the country, the insider said, seemingly referring to
the president's close as advisors, and Joe Biden was at
best a senior member of the board. Near the end
of the book, Tappar and Thompson offer a glimpse into
how powerful Democrats responded, for example, to the grim spectacle
(16:47):
of Biden's early summer face off with Trump. The authors
described as seeing at the home of James Costos, an
ambassador to Spain under Obama, where celebrities and politicians gathered
to watch the debate eight As a dodoring Biden tanked
on stage in front of some fifty million Americans, the
film director and Democratic donor Rob Reiner became scared, then furious, saying, quote,
(17:11):
We're going to lose our effing democracy because of you.
He screamed, seeming to direct his ear at the closest
thing to a Biden official in the room, who was
it the second gentleman, Doug Enhoff. What Reiner apparently failed
to consider, but what original sin the book prompts readers
to ask is whether America's democracy was already meaningfully diminished.
(17:33):
Describing how some in Biden's world justified propping him up
for reelection in twenty twenty four, a longtime aide told
Tapper and Thompson quote, he 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.
In other words, before Biden stepped down from the race,
(17:54):
the plan for some aid seemed to be the weekend
at Bernie's, a cognitively impaired president, in the hopes that,
upon winning a second term, he could be hidden from
the public while unelected staff took care of the real
business of governing. When you vote for somebody, you're voting
for the people around them too. This aid offered as
(18:14):
a way of justifying what was, by any reasonable metric,
an effort to undermine democracy and defraud the American people. So, yes,
the cover up was massive. Yes we had someone running
the country or a group of people that were elected
by no one and now the question is what is
Congress going to do about it? And will there be
an investigation. We'll keep covering it right here.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
You knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that.
If you're the FBI director and you don't know what
that meant, that meant assassination. And it says it loud
and clear. Now, he wasn't very confident, but he was
confident enough to know what that meant. And when you
add his history to that, if he had a clean history,
(00:22):
he doesn't. He's a dirty pup.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good Monday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got three
blockbuster stories for you. First up, Joe Biden announces the
diagnosis of prostate cancer. When did this happen and was
there actually a cover up to conceal it from you,
the American voter. We'll have the latest on that in
just a second. Up next, the her audio has finally
(00:49):
been released, and it's more damning than we could have
ever imagined, as the cognitive decline of the president was
on full display, and now we understand why they blocked
it from you ever we're hearing it until now. And finally,
the new book that is out as saying that Joe
Biden wasn't actually the president of the United States of America.
In fact, there's now new accusations that there was five
(01:11):
different people that we're running the country. We'll have the
details on that as well. Now, before we get to that,
I want to talk to you real quick about the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Most of us, when
we go to bed at night, we don't have to
worry about there being an explosion that awakes us in
the middle of the evening. We climb into our beds,
we turn off the lights, and we sleep in relative safety.
(01:33):
But the people of Israel are facing NonStop threats on
seven different fronts. They do have a red alert system
to warn of incoming attacks, and last month, red alerts
blared nearly fifty times every single day, something we can't
imagine living with. The toll on families and first responders
is brutal, and right now, Israel's first responders are facing
(01:57):
an urgent need. Life saving supplies are running low, and
that's why the work of the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews is so critical. Your gift of only one
hundred and fifty dollars will help provide first responders with helmets,
flat jackets, medical rescue bags, and even armored service vehicles
to keep people alive. Your gift is urgently needed, and
(02:19):
if you want to stand with the people of Israel,
you can call eight to eight four eight eight IFCJ.
That's eight eight eight four eight eight four three two five.
You can also give securely online at IFCJ dot org.
That's if CJ dot org. It's the forty seven Morning
(02:40):
Update and it starts right now, story number one. In
a shocking statement coming from the Biden family, former President
Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that is
characterized by a glease And score of nine, his office
revealed in a statement on Sunday. In the press release
from Biden's personal office feel that while Biden's prostate cancer
(03:02):
represents a quote more aggressive form of the disease, the
former President's cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, saying this
last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new
finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms.
On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer characterized by
(03:22):
a Gleason score of nine grade group five, which metastasized
to the bone. While this represents a more aggressive form
of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone sensitive,
which allows for effective management. The president is family are
reviewing treatment options with his physicians now. The President's statement
(03:43):
is one that has a lot of people talking because
traditionally it takes a significant amount of time for this
type of cancer to get to this point where it
is actually metastasizing to the bone, and many doctors are
now asking the question, when did they know this and
what were they hiding from the American people. Now. I
want to be clear, my thoughts and prayers are with
(04:04):
President Joe Biden, as I'm sure yours are as well.
But we also know that the same people that are
around Joe Biden now were the same ones that lied
and covered up his cognitive decline. And the question everyone
should be asking is did he really just find out
about this or were the people around him making sure
the American people didn't know about it from the very beginning. Unfortunately,
(04:27):
is because of their actions on the President's cognitive decline
that we have to ask these types of questions. There
are also many doctors that are putting out different things
on social media about this type of cancer. For example,
one doctor online said it this way, Prostate cancer is
the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and
(04:48):
to watch its progress to bone metastasis. The PSA blood
test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even
with the most aggressive form, it is a five to
seven year journey without treatment before it becomes metastasized, meaning
it would be malpractice for this patient to show up
and be first diagnosed with a metasticized disease in May
(05:11):
of twenty twenty five. It is highly likely we are
carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House
tenure and the American people were uninformed. Now, there wouldn't
be this type of conversation if it wasn't for the
massive cover up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline, especially
in a new book which we'll talk about in a moment,
(05:32):
that is saying that Joe Biden's decline was being covered
up before he even became president. One thing that is
for sure is Donald Trump's words that he used in
his post saying quote, Malanie and I are saddened to
hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis extender warmus and
best wishes to Joe and the family, and we wish
Joe a fast and successful recovery. I couldn't agree more
(05:56):
with President Donald Trump. But this doesn't mean that we
cannot ask questions about if this diagnosis had actually been
concealed from the American people so that the Democrats could
try to win the last election. Unfortunately, if you're not
happy with this question being asked, it may be because
you were helping cover up the Cogniti decline of Joe Biden.
As I mentioned earlier. Next story number two, we exclusively
(06:20):
now have the prosecutor's audio of the tapes where Joe
Biden was being asked questions about classified documents and where
they were stored. What it revealed is even more shocking
than I could have imagined. Now we understand exactly why
the DOJ and Joe Biden's team went to make sure
you never heard any of this. Yes, some of the
(06:42):
transcripts were released, but it did not put into context
just how long some of the stalls and pauses and
meandering was during the interview. Axios obtained the audio of
Robert Hurris's twenty twenty three interview of Joe Biden, which
show repeated massive mental lapses as he struggled to remember
(07:03):
words and dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses. Biden's White House
didn't release it last year, and now we know exactly why.
Here is one example of just how bad it was
for Joe Biden when he was asked a simple question
that he never answered about where he was keeping these documents,
(07:23):
and instead the president rambled for more than four minutes.
Not only that, his team even said maybe we should
take a break, and Joe Biden didn't seem to get
the clue that it was time for him to stop
the bleeding.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
During Chambers Road and.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Or got into the head Biden Center, the Biden answer
your book, where did you keep peepers that lad to
those things that you were actively working?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Well, I I I I I I don't know. This
is what twenty seventeen eighteen, that period is.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Remember in this time frame, my son is uh either
been deployed or is dying and UH, and so if
it was UH. And by the way, there were still
(08:34):
a lot of people at the time when I got
out of the sender that were encouraging me to run
in this period, UH, except the president.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I'm not being They're not a mean thing to say.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Man.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
He just thought that she had a better shot of
winning the president than I did.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And so I hadn't. I hadn't at this point, you don't.
I'm a band.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I hadn't walked away from the idea that I might
run for office again if our rant agend been running
for president and uh, and so.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
What was happening though, when when bot die uh got
mayed thirtyears?
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Uh in twenty eighteen, when the twenty fifteen and died
May twenty fifteen, maybe it's twenty fifteen or eat that.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Much of the months or when he goes here? That's right,
That's that's it. And what's happened in the meantime is
that UH has and.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Trump gets elected in November of twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, sixteen,
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Alright, so you wanna have twenty seventeen years. That's when
you left off it. Uh in January time said okay,
but that's when something had sworn in at the right hand,
would right?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Quite?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Kay, athlete and uh in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Bow had passed and uh, man, it.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Is this personal.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
The genesis of the book, and the title promised me
Dad was a Uh. I know they're all close to
your sons and daughters, but.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Bo is.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Like my right arm, and that was my last.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
These guys were a year and a day apart, and
they could finish each other's sentences. And bo I used
to go home on the train and if period.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
That I was still in the sentence.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Anyway, do you remember there was pressure, not pressure. BO
knew how much I knew around and uh, and it
sounds maybe it sounds so everybody knew how close you were.
(11:46):
I mean there was not anybody knew would to wonder
whether or not anyway, And so I wonder you a break, No,
I let me just keep.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
After her report was released, the White House went into
full attack mode. Joe Biden slammed her for asking about
when bo died. The Vice President Kamala Harris went out
and had a press conference slamming anyone that said that
there was a cognitive decline of Joe Biden. What we
now know is her was respectful, kind, and almost clearly
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felt sorry for the President of the United States of America.
And when he said he wasn't going to charge Joe
Biden because no jury would find him guilty because of
his massive cognitive decline. We now understand he wasn't lying
at all. And the big question now is who was
actually running the country. And here is story number three.
The Atlantic has come out with a new article entitled
(12:45):
an Autopsy Report on Biden's in office decline. The headline
reads this way about the new book Original Sin. That
book says this, five people were running the country and
Joe Biden is at best a senior member of the board. Now,
this new book that has come out, Jake Tapper is
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one of the authors of it from CNN is now
describing a presidency without a president, where there were five people,
none of them actually named in this book, who were
running the country and calling all of the shots. We
also are now learning that the cognitive decline of the
president was massive even before he became president of the
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United States of America. For example, three years later, on
the presidential campaign trail, Biden's struggles became more obvious to
those around him. Tapper and Thompson report in twenty twenty,
for example, members of Biden's inner circle gave the candidate
a teleprompter with scripted questions for a local news interview
his dwindling communicative and cognitive abilities. Aids were shocked as
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they said they couldn't rely on Biden to stay on
message and he often had a very short attention. The
book's most astounding, previously unreported story from Biden's twenty twenty
campaign concerns his staff's attempts to create videos of the
candidates speaking to voters over zoom Tapper and Thompson's description
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of this is worth quoting at length, saying this, Biden
would sit in a room with several monitors beaming the
faces of real Americans in front of him so they
could discuss issues of importance. You have to remember this
was during the time of COVID. The videos came back
hours of footage. Some on the team couldn't believe their eyes.
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The videos were horrible. One top Democrat said he couldn't
follow the conversation at all. I couldn't believe it set
a second Democrat who hadn't seen Biden in a few years.
It was like a different person. It was incredible. This
was like watching Grandpa who shouldn't be driving. Yes, they're
referring to Joe Biden when he was running for president.
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In twenty twenty, special team was brought in and told
to edit the videos down to make them arable, if
only a few minutes worth. They had to get quote creative.
The authors go on to write, edited the videos likely
appeared fine the viewers, Biden no worse than any other
senior on Zoom, but two of the Democrats who were
involved in the film's production together were dumbfounded, saying, quote,
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I didn't think he could be president. The second Democrats said,
after what they'd seen, they couldn't understand how Biden could
be capable of doing the job. And that's not the
only thing that apparently is being revealed in this book
that comes out on Tuesday. Another example of just how
bad things were quote in twenty twenty two, according to
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one witness, Biden found himself unable to remember the names
of his own national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, Steve he
called him at least twice, or his communications director Kate Bettingfield,
whom Biden once resorted to callings. That's not the only
thing that we learned from this book and the excerpts.
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As some high ranking Democrats quoted anonymously in the book
put it to Tapar and Thompson. After Biden's disaster's debate
with Trump last June, they said, quote, just who the
hell is running the country? Question mark. At least one
unnamed source close to the Biden administration was willing to
provide the authors with an answer. And this is the
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part that should make every American angry. Quote. Five people
were running the country, the insider said, seemingly referring to
the president's close as advisors, and Joe Biden was at
best a senior member of the board. Near the end
of the book, Tappar and Thompson offer a glimpse into
how powerful Democrats responded, for example, to the grim spectacle
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of Biden's early summer face off with Trump. The authors
described as seeing at the home of James Costos, an
ambassador to Spain under Obama, where celebrities and politicians gathered
to watch the debate eight As a dodoring Biden tanked
on stage in front of some fifty million Americans, the
film director and Democratic donor Rob Reiner became scared, then furious, saying, quote,
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We're going to lose our effing democracy because of you.
He screamed, seeming to direct his ear at the closest
thing to a Biden official in the room, who was
it the second gentleman, Doug Enhoff. What Reiner apparently failed
to consider, but what original sin the book prompts readers
to ask is whether America's democracy was already meaningfully diminished.
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Describing how some in Biden's world justified propping him up
for reelection in twenty twenty four, a longtime aide told
Tapper and Thompson quote, he 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.
In other words, before Biden stepped down from the race,
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the plan for some aid seemed to be the weekend
at Bernie's, a cognitively impaired president, in the hopes that,
upon winning a second term, he could be hidden from
the public while unelected staff took care of the real
business of governing. When you vote for somebody, you're voting
for the people around them too. This aid offered as
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a way of justifying what was, by any reasonable metric,
an effort to undermine democracy and defraud the American people. So, yes,
the cover up was massive. Yes we had someone running
the country or a group of people that were elected
by no one and now the question is what is
Congress going to do about it? And will there be
an investigation. We'll keep covering it right here.
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