Naomi, the granddaughter of Joe Biden, has criticized Jake Tapper’s latest book, which delves into the former president’s decline and the media’s alleged concealment of it.
Titled ‘Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,’ the book, co-authored by Alex Thompson, aims to unveil a purported effort by the White House to keep Biden’s cognitive decline hidden from the public.
Despite not being officially released until Tuesday, May 20, the book has already received initial critiques that suggest Tapper may have been complicit in the very cover-up he claims to expose.
However, Naomi Biden – the former president’s oldest grandchild – says the tome is nothing but a cash-grab by Tapper and Thompson sourced by people trying to pass the buck for Kamala Harris’ defeat in the 2024 election.
‘Just read a copy of this silly book, and if anyone is curious for a review from someone who lived it first-hand: this book is political fairy smut for the permanent, professional chattering class,’ she said in a post to social media.
She described the authors and sources as people ‘who rarely enter the arena, but profit from the spectacle of those that do’ and directly trashed Tapper and Thompson as ‘irresponsible, self-promoting journalists out to make a quick buck.’
Biden called the allegations in the book a ‘bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies’ and called the sources people who were ‘pushing a self-serving false narrative that absolves them of any responsibility for our current national nightmare.’
Naomi, 32, then took the rest of the post to defend her grandfather, who announced just yesterday that he had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.
Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi (pictured center) has slammed CNN star Jake Tapper’s new book in which exposes the former president’s decline and the media cover-up that accompanied it
Early reviews of the book (which will be released on Tuesday, May 20) are already being overshadowed by allegations that Tapper (pictured) himself was complicit in the very ‘cover-up’ that he purports to expose
‘All of this at the expense of a man so completely good and honest that it is impossible for these people to ever understand the why or how of it all. There are real stories to be told and one day they will be. I suspect history will reward the truth.’
DailyMail.com has reached out to a spokesperson for Tapper for comment.
Tapper initially faced ridicule for penning a book about the ‘cover-up’ surrounding Joe Biden’s health despite claims he and his network did the same.
Commenters under CNN’s own story claimed the station had been ‘complicit in the fraud’, as other singled out Tapper specifically.
Others derisively mocked the State of the Union host, framing his book as a shameless attempt at deflection.
One reader typed how Tapper ‘needs to go’, weeks after a senior CNN staffer told DailyMail.com the network had laid off 200 of its staff because it had become inundated with workers who do the bare minimum.
All honed in on the mainstream media Tapper and Thompson said they had successfully unmasked, while seemingly ignoring the pair’s part in the reporting.
A synopsis for the book provided in a press release, meanwhile, described the liberal-led plot. It frames Biden, ‘his family, and his senior aides’ as ‘so convinced that only he could beat Trump again, they lied to themselves, allies, and the public.’
The cover of ‘Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,’ is seen here. It argues that Biden, ‘his family, and his senior aides’ as ‘so convinced that only he could beat Trump again, they lied to themselves, allies, and the public’
‘What you will learn makes President Biden’s decision to run for reelection seem shockingly narcissistic, self-delusional, and reckless – a desperate bet that went bust,’ Penguin stated while announcing the book.’
The publisher further framed the attempt – fueled by coverage that likely aired on legacy stations like ABC, NBC, and CBS – as ‘part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents.’
Tapper – who also moderated a 2020 debate between the then-candidates – added in a separate statement, in which he quoted Nobel Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison.
‘”If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”‘
‘That’s what inspired this book,’ the Lead With Jake Tapper host said. ‘We wanted to know more about what we all just lived through.
‘More than 200 interviews later, Alex and I have a much better idea,’ he said, talking up the book’s sourcing.
‘And soon you all will too.’
The statement was delivered a little more than six months removed from the Atlanta debate that Tapper moderated, which led to accusations that CNN’s lead Washington anchor took it easy on the president.
Following the book’s announcement, claimed the station had been ‘complicit in the fraud’, as other singled out Tapper specifically. Others derisively mocked the State of the Union host, framing his book as a shameless attempt at deflection
One segment in particular sparked such accusations, after Tapper appeared to cut the 81-year-old off in the midst of a rambling, nonsensical answer – one of several later cited after the Democrats’ abrupt turnaround to opting for Kamala Harris.
‘We’d be able to wipe out his debt,’ Biden said at the time of sums incurred by Trump-era tax cuts he said ‘benefited the very wealthy.’
‘We’d be able to help make sure all those things we need to do: child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system,’ he continued, stumbling at times over his words.
‘Making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the… with the COVID, excuse me, with um, dealing with everything we have to with, uh,’ he went on, languishing at this point.
‘Look, if we finally beat Medicare…’
He proceeded to fully trail off.
The silence that ensued – and the overall moment – went on to live in infamy, after Tapper’s timely interjection.
‘Thank you President Biden – President Trump?’
Within days – thanks an array of other viral flubs during the make-or-break faceoff – Biden was bombarded with bipartisan calls to drop out.
He eventually did, albeit reluctantly, after several weeks.
That said, Tapper was one of few left-leaning hosts to call attention to Biden’s seemingly waning health in the months leading up the debate, while talents like Thompson gave time to accounts from White House staffers insisting the president was fine.
Tapper, moreover, cut off Lara Trump during a tense interview that aired on State of the Union in 2020, during an conversation about the candidate’s ‘cognitive decline.’
The host – who was reportedly just denied a raise – had just aired a clip of Trump’s daughter-in-law criticizing Biden’s tendency to stutter, calling it evidence of his ‘cognitive decline’.
‘I’m like “Joe, can ya get it out, let’s get the words out, Joe,” You kinda feel bad for him,’ she said – leading Tapper to chide her and point out previous reporting surrounding Biden overcoming a stutter over the years.
‘How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that?’ he asked Trump sternly. ‘I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline’.
