On June 15, 2024, Joe Biden traveled to Los Angeles for a collection event organized by the powerful producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and actor George Clooney. There were film stars, presenter Jimmy Kimmel launched kind questions on the stage to Biden and his ex -chief, Barack Obama, and the bulky portfolios of Democratic donors, Millionaires of Hollywood for the most part, opened in par to contribute to the re -election campaign of the president of the United States.
When, at the time of Besamanos, Clooney greeted the honoree realized that he was not recognizing him, although both had been treated for more than 15 years.
– “It’s George Clooney, Mr. President, “an assistant had to notify him.
– “Oh, yes,” said Biden, “How about George?”
The actor knew that his 81 -year -old friend had spent a few days busy – with trips to France, Delaware, Italy and California – and considered “petty” the report of the special prosecutor Robert Hur that in February had defined him as an “old man with a bad memory.” The last time they had found themselves, two years ago, I had seen it well. But that day in Los Angeles he could not help asking himself if that man, that a gala assistant defined as “someone who was not alive,” was really the president of the United States.
The anecdote is Original without, Joke Tapper journalists’ book, CNN star presenter, and Alex Thompson, reporter for Axios. “More than 200 interviews” – mostly, to Fuente Anónimas – serve Tapper and Thompson to conclude that “the original sin” of the title was Biden’s decision to present himself to re -election, “followed by the aggressive efforts” of his surroundings “for hiding his cognitive deterioration.” One of the few who speak with a name and surname, a Democratic strategist named David Plouffe, is more explicit in denouncing that the candidate “fell a lot” to the party for not getting off before the contest.
Its publication is scheduled for May 20, but this Tuesday The New Yorker He published an excerpt that the magazine titled: “How Biden handed the presidency to Trump.” The previous promotion strategy also included a warm review in The New York Times, An article in Axios and a lot of antenna time in the CNN. So much time and more or less half of the Tapper’s own program, who was already known for previous books that moves with self -confidence in the waters of the pombombo.
The editorial advance fell like a bomb in Washington, despite the fact that Clooney’s apprehension with the Democratic candidate is not precisely news. After all, the actor published on July 10 an article in the Times He titled: “I want Joe Biden, but we need a new candidate.”
By then, that idea was not original either: on June 27, the president made clear to millions of viewers in the debate that faced his rival, Donald Trump, who did not seem able to complete the campaign, or win the elections, let’s not say to direct the fate of the first world power for four more years. That sudden awareness opened the spot of criticism in his own party, which began to dare to take the opposite and ended up forcing him to resign three weeks later.
The rest is the history of the most humiliating defeat of the Democratic Party in decades. Kamala Harris, the vice president whom the boss had relegated during his mandate, suddenly became his best option and took over. They continued raining the millions in donations, but nothing prevented Trump’s return to the White House.
It was also learned this Tuesday, thanks to the part that revealed axios, that “in 2023 and in 2024”, in view of the fact that “the physical deterioration of Biden had become so serious, more evident in their hesitant walk, there were internal discussions (among their collaborators) about the possibility of sitting the president in a wheelchair.” Those conversations came to the conclusion that they would not write it Tapper.
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Journalists, as can be seen from the criticism of the Timesthey detail in their book the strategies to hide those problems: “Restricate urgent issues to the schedule between 10:00 and 16:00; order the editors of speeches that wrote short so that (Biden) did not have to spend too much time standing; or force the president to use the short stairs of the Air Force One. When recording videos, their advisors sometimes filmed ‘in the slow chamber to blur Slowly that he walked, ”writes the non -fiction reviewer of the newspaper, Jennifer Szalai, who also remembers attacks on journalists who,” like Thompson himself, “they” dignified to denounce what was happening. ”
The authors of Original without They divide the “cover -up”, in which all anonymous sources discharge their responsibilities, in two groups: the family and their nearby advisors, “internally known as the Politburó“The family dedicated himself to promoting Biden’s idea as” a historical figure “, while the Politburó He focused on highlighting the successes of his presidency and making the Americans believe that “the naps, the whispers and the sudden movements” had to do “with the ‘performative’ parties of the work.”
These days, that same Praetorian guard has preferred not to react to revelation on the scare of Clooney, but to that of the wheelchair. A spokesman for the former president sent Axios and al Times A statement that alleges that his problems to walk were due to the “wear of her spine” of which a medical report released by the White House reported.
“It was transparent about it, and it was not serious at all,” continues the statement. “Yes, there were physical changes as it aged, but the evidence of aging is not proof of mental disability. And so far, we are still waiting for someone, anyone, to point out what cases had to make a presidential decision or pronounce a speech and could not do its job due to mental deterioration. In fact, the tests point to the opposite: it was a very effective president.”
In anticipation of the publication of the book, and others that are to come, the former president made a mini -timir of counterpromotion. He granted an interview with the BBC, and went to the popular Magacín The view to undergo a one -hour relax The Wall Street Journal that caused an earthquake in Washington and that it was denied vehemence – they said it was incapacitated to do the job.
Beside him, Jill Biden, his wife, went out at some time to his rescue and denied that he would have isolated him from the world to protect him. “Those accusations were very painful, especially that those who called our friends.” Marriage has a lot of work ahead if you want to assure Biden a good place in history, since this can be very cruel to former presidents. As part of that offensive, the publication of a book is expected with the version of the protagonist itself on its four years in the White House.
Who have read Original without Beyond editorial advances warn that it does not bring great revelations apart from those published, and indicate as a ballast the amount of anonymous sources on which its authors have built the book. It is certainly eloquent that many in the Democratic party do not dare to say in public what they whisper in private.
That was the original sin, according to Tapper and Thompson, of the final stretch of the presidency of Biden. And from what is seen, not even the humiliating defeat against Trump has contributed to the party deciding to atone for it. In the book, the authors say that on November 6, 2024, Biden woke up after the electoral batacazo thinking that if he had continued in the contest, he would have won. “That is what the surveys suggested; I repeated it again and again,” the authors write.
There was only one problem, pollsters confessed to journalists. Those polls never existed.
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