By Molly Claire Goddard
7:05am PDT, May 22, 2025
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Joe Biden's deteriorating mental state seemed to be America's best-kept secret.
In
Jake Tapper and
Alex Thompson's bombshell
book,
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, insiders claim the 82-year-old suffered from "significant limitations" with memory while serving as the commander-in-chief of the United States.
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In a passage obtained by
RadarOnline.com, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson cite a 2023 interview Joe Biden did with Justice Department special counsel
Robert Hur, where his declining mental state is evident as he failed to recall how long he was
Barack Obama's vice president.
"Biden's recorded conversations from that time were described as 'often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries,'" the tell-all claims. "Flash forward to the fall of 2023, when Biden had his interviews with the special counsel's office. Summing up their impressions, Hur concluded: 'Biden's memory was worse.'"
"Biden seemed to have difficulty grasping the fact that his vice presidency lasted from January 2009 until January 2017," they alleged. "Once, trying to understand a point in time in 2013, he asked, 'Well, if it was 2013 — when did I stop being vice president?'"
"'2017,' a White House lawyer reminded him," the journalists continued. "'So, I was vice president,' he said. 'So, it must've come from vice president stuff. That's all I can think of.'"
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In another troubling instance of Joe Biden's conversation with Robert Hur, the Democrat could not remember when his son
Beau Biden passed away from
brain cancer in 2015.
In obtained audio of the interview, Joe questioned, "What was happening though was…What month did Beau die?"
"Oh God, May 30," a White House attorney present for the discussion chimed in.
"Am I making any sense to you?" the former senator from Delaware asked the people present in the room.
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When Robert Hur's report was made public, special counsel to Joe Biden Richard Sauber and his personal counsel Bob Bauer slammed any speculation the president's mental health was in decline.
"We do not believe that the report's treatment of President Biden's memory is accurate or appropriate," Sauber and Bauer said in a statement. "The report uses highly prejudicial language to describe a commonplace occurrence among witnesses: a lack of recall of years-old events."
A representative for the Biden administration even called the review "politically motivated."
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On Sunday, May 18, Joe Biden and his camp revealed he'd been diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of
prostate cancer.
"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 a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone," their statement read.
As Americans wonder how long the left-wing politician was battling the disease, oncologist Dr.
Ezekiel Emanuel claimed to MSNBC's
Morning Joe, "Oh yeah. He did not develop it in the last 100-200 days. He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency, in 2021."
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Throughout Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's read, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, they make the case that there were two versions of Joe Biden as he served as the leader of the United States.
"The first one is the one that everybody got to know during his vice presidency," they claim. "And the second one was kind of a non-functioning Joe Biden. And that non-functioning Biden would rear his head increasingly starting in, like, 2019, 2020. And then, as his term went on, more and more behind the scenes."
