I bought a 2nd hand copy of #OriginalSin (so Tapper didn’t get any money) and on page 29 he tells the tale of an unnamed world leader meeting Biden in 2022 and believing he was “clearly” out of it. This is so dangerous, my God… THEY ALL KNEW. GLOBALLY. Aaaaaand there it is. On page 35 after a few pages about Biden being incoherent in Dem caucus meetings, we find that while centrist Biden was unaware (most of the time!) his very progressive Chief of Staff was steering everything decidedly LEFT. They called him the “prime minister.”

“A lot [of Obama’s behind the scenes work] has been with Hakeem Jeffries… whose connection to the former president runs so deep that, as he sometimes points out, he has the same birthday and his wife is also named Michelle.”

cnn.com/2024/10/13/pol… “This is on top of a range of meetings and phone calls Obama has held over the last year with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and other top Democrats, first reported by CNN, as advisers, friends and political allies say the former president has become increasingly alarmed by Donald Trump’s continued hold on the country and its politics.”