EPISODE · May 14, 2025 · 43 MIN
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - Hidin' Biden: book reveals more about us & party minions than Joe
from The Ron Show · host Ron Roberts
The book Washington insiders have been tongue-wagging about for days now - "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" - was leaked. It'll be a best-seller and have pundits and conservative snipers taking aim at a perceived "conspiracy" or "cover-up" in the Biden White House, but how much meat is even on this bone? All I've read (so far) is a lot of hindsight from the same folks who weren't saying much from the positions they could have been long before the former President bowed out of the 2024 presidential race. A touch disingenuous if you ask me. CNN's Jake Tapper (who of course went on CNN today to discuss leaked revelations and tease of more) and co-author Alex Thompson (Axios) spoke to a lot of people after the election who weren't willing to go on the record before it - and that's not unusual in and of itself - but it belies a good bit of "well, what good is that to anyone, now?" responses, including from my guest today. With me to discuss the fallout, himself quoted in a Politico piece last week on the return of Joe Biden to the spotlight (he did two TV appearances last week) is Atlanta-based liberal political strategist Andrew Heaton. Among the "now they tell us "quips: there was consideration to having the former President use a wheelchair. See, that they didn't speaks more to us as voters than to their alleged/perceived "cover-up." We see "old guy in a wheelchair" and make (logical? illogical?) leaps about his mental abilities - which, I still take issue with.
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The book Washington insiders have been tongue-wagging about for days now - "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" - was leaked. It'll be a best-seller and have pundits and conservative snipers taking aim at a perceived "conspiracy" or "cover-up" in the Biden White House, but how much meat is even on this bone? All I've read (so far) is a lot of hindsight from the same folks who weren't saying much from the positions they could have been long before the former President bowed out of the 2024 presidential race. A touch disingenuous if you ask me. CNN's Jake Tapper (who of course went on CNN today to discuss leaked revelations and tease of more) and co-author Alex Thompson (Axios) spoke to a lot of people after the election who weren't willing to go on the record before it - and that's not unusual in and of itself - but it belies a good bit of "well, what good is that to anyone, now?" responses, including from my guest today. With me to discuss the fallout, himself quoted in a Politico piece last week on the return of Joe Biden to the spotlight (he did two TV appearances last week) is Atlanta-based liberal political strategist Andrew Heaton. Among the "now they tell us "quips: there was consideration to having the former President use a wheelchair. See, that they didn't speaks more to us as voters than to their alleged/perceived "cover-up." We see "old guy in a wheelchair" and make (logical? illogical?) leaps about his mental abilities - which, I still take issue with.
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