Former President Joe Biden’s aides, concerned about his physical ailments, discussed having him use a wheelchair to get around if he were reelected, according to an upcoming book said to detail the steps his administration and allies used to cover up his decline.

“Biden’s physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair, but they couldn’t do so until after the election,” CNN’s Jake Tapper and his co-author, Axios’ Alex Thompson, wrote in “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which will be released on May 20.

However, the aides concluded that it would not be politically tenable to have Biden, then 81, appearing on the campaign trail while sitting in a wheelchair, the authors wrote in the book, which has been published by Axios.

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