It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the truth: America may have lived through one of the most significant presidential cover-ups in modern history. The revelations in Original Sin, the explosive book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, pull the curtain back on a White House that knew—at the highest levels—that President Joe Biden was not cognitively fit to lead, yet moved mountains to hide it from the American people.
This is not about partisanship. It is not about whether one supports Democrats or Republicans. It is about transparency, trust, and the dangerous precedent that has now been set for executive power. If the claims in Tapper’s book are true, then we are not just dealing with a president in decline—we are dealing with an administration, a political party, and a complicit media ecosystem that enabled and protected that decline at the expense of the nation.
According to the book, top aides, family members, and donors witnessed clear signs of President Biden’s deterioration: memory lapses, disorientation, and physical frailty so severe that the use of a wheelchair was discussed as a backup plan. These weren’t isolated incidents. They were ongoing and well known inside the West Wing. Yet instead of sounding the alarm, those around the president closed ranks. They covered for him. And in doing so, they misled the American people during a time when global conflict, economic instability, and political division demanded clarity, not concealment.
It’s not just the alleged deception that’s troubling—it’s the justification for it. Biden was framed as “the only one who could beat Trump,” and that logic became the moral permission slip for everything that followed. The truth was buried beneath polling data and media spin, and anyone who questioned the president’s mental acuity was labeled disrespectful, partisan, or worse.
Now we learn that even after disastrous public performances—like the 2024 debate where Biden visibly struggled to complete thoughts—party insiders still rallied behind him. It took public outcry and collapsing approval numbers for Biden to withdraw from the race, but by then the damage was done. The Democratic Party entered the 2024 election with a nominee they knew wasn’t capable of finishing the job, and they did so by design.
The media doesn’t escape blame either. Tapper’s own admission—that reporters ignored the signs and avoided tough questions—should force a reckoning in journalism. If our press corps is unwilling to press for answers when power is in question, then they are no longer the watchdogs of democracy—they are its decorators, keeping appearances polished while truth rots underneath.
There are echoes of Watergate here, but in some ways, this is worse. Watergate was about the abuse of power to protect a president from political fallout. This is about knowingly presenting an unfit leader to the world, risking national security and public trust, just to preserve a political agenda.
If we allow this to go unanswered, we are signaling to every future president, party official, and media executive that truth is optional, and that power is the ultimate priority. That cannot be the lesson history takes from this moment.
Congress must continue its investigation. Medical records, communications, and testimony should be brought before the public. Not out of spite, but out of necessity. The people have a right to know who was really running the country—and why they were told otherwise.
We must also ask deeper questions about how we choose our leaders, how we hold them accountable, and whether our institutions are truly designed to serve the people or merely protect those in power.
In the end, this is not just a story about Joe Biden. It’s a story about us.
Will we demand the truth, or will we settle for the illusion?
