Damning Portrait of Joe Biden’s Loyal Inner Circle: New Book Reveals White House Cover-Up

A few days after President Joe Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate with then-rival Donald Trump, Jill Biden traveled to western Michigan for a couple of campaign events with the swing state’s senior Democratic senator, Debbie Stabenow.

After defending Biden publicly to a gaggle of reporters, Stabenow asked for a private pull-aside with the first lady. “She told Jill that she’d known Joe for a long, long time and supported him on every level,” write Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper in their new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. “But, Stabenow said, she and her colleagues were concerned about what they’d seen at the debate. They cared about Joe. They were worried about him.”

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A few days after President Joe Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate with then-rival Donald Trump, Jill Biden traveled to western Michigan for a couple of campaign events with the swing state’s senior Democratic senator, Debbie Stabenow.

After defending Biden publicly to a gaggle of reporters, Stabenow asked for a private pull-aside with the first lady. “She told Jill that she’d known Joe for a long, long time and supported him on every level,” write Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper in their new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. “But, Stabenow said, she and her colleagues were concerned about what they’d seen at the debate. They cared about Joe. They were worried about him.”