The book Original Sin coauthored by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios political correspondent Alex Thompson reveals not only an excruciatingly elaborate coverup of an often cognitively absent president but also identifies elite members and affiliates of an internally recognized “Politburo” that headed the country and free world during his extended periods of leadership absence.

That group of nonelected broadly unknown decision-makers for all of us was very small, yet influential in shaping Joe Biden’s policies and determining what vital information did and didn’t reach his desk.

It wasn’t as if his dismal chances of winning reelection weren’t broadly and desperately recognized by his party, with his age and failing cognitive state featured front and center.

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