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Book review: Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson chronicles the trainwreck that was Biden's 2024 presidential campaign, and early signs of Biden's mental decline.
The book starts slow and is a disjoint collection of anecdotes slowly building up. The really exciting bits start at more than halfway into the book, in the Chapter titled "The Debate". It was strangely fun to relive the unfolding disaster in late 2024 through this book. Maybe there's a genre for this kind of biographies.
The book is helpfully armed with an index, so if I were to read it again, I'd start from page 185 "The Debate", and use the index whenever it refers to unfamiliar previous episodes.
GC people may be disappointed to learn that there's no reference in the book to the gender wars which we were all certain were the main cause of Trump's win.
Jokes aside, I learned that Biden placed the interest of his family ahead of his country, especially the final act of Biden pardoning Hunter and his other family members, making a nice precedence for Trump to pardon Jan 6 insurrectionists.
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