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Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

Review by Sean Penn: writer, actor, world stage

1/2
Jul 25
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper

This was a frustrating book to read. Let alone try to find some stable critique of it. Regardless your actual political beliefs, I wasn’t overly impressed with this book. It’s fairly pulpy and reads as such.

There’s a little too casual nature of it. I found it really off putting when either Jake or Alex wrote about someone being like “Hoooooly Shit, Biden’s old”. Like I got it, he’s an old geezer, I just don’t see the need to get so chummy and casual. I disliked how the two authors just swap spots on who did what. Casual be like, oh Alex went to this meeting. First time I read it I was like, Alex fucking who!

The main issue is it does bring to light a lot of issues we saw in the lead up with Biden during the election. I’ve learned more about his dumb ass ghoul of a son in the wake of his 3 hour interview that was smack dab inbetween reading this book. If there’s one take away, Hunter Biden fucking sucks dude. Ultimately Joe Biden operated with the gumption that he’d save us from Trump, and didn’t have it in him during the 2nd go around. The telling thing is everyone in DNC leadership is complicit for supporting him. In playing it safe, and avoiding becoming pariahs in their own party we ruined our chances of another democratic president.

I don’t see this book as a total cash grab. It’s very easy to read overall, and goes over the main conflicts. The core issue is how comfortable everyone was in speaking once it was over. Biden, factually worked short hours, wasn’t on the main stage doing interviews publicly like other presidents. The media hyper focused on what they got, and often with his stutter cause him a lot of issues. Physically he’s an older weaker man from when he was the vice president and ultimately it’s the image that gets you elected. To say this book is full of deception or lies I find to be highly unlikely. I think it speaks more to the fear that people had of trying to overrule him, and anytime anyone tried to report on these issues, the White House would call it fake news.

I find Trump disgusting and I would have a magic 8 ball than him as president. There is clearly something absolutely wrong with the system if these were the two serious candidates.

As for the book it just made me disappointed in the state of the world. Reading this felt like it was easy to point the finger at Biden, but the reality was it was everyone in the sphere of news, social media. I more so really felt mad at myself for spending $16.00 to find out what more or less I already knew.

Sean Penn: writer, actor, world stage
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper
1/2
•Jul 25
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

This was a frustrating book to read. Let alone try to find some stable critique of it. Regardless your actual political beliefs, I wasn’t overly impressed with this book. It’s fairly pulpy and reads as such.

There’s a little too casual nature of it. I found it really off putting when either Jake or Alex wrote about someone being like “Hoooooly Shit, Biden’s old”. Like I got it, he’s an old geezer, I just don’t see the need to get so chummy and casual. I disliked how the two authors just swap spots on who did what. Casual be like, oh Alex went to this meeting. First time I read it I was like, Alex fucking who!

The main issue is it does bring to light a lot of issues we saw in the lead up with Biden during the election. I’ve learned more about his dumb ass ghoul of a son in the wake of his 3 hour interview that was smack dab inbetween reading this book. If there’s one take away, Hunter Biden fucking sucks dude. Ultimately Joe Biden operated with the gumption that he’d save us from Trump, and didn’t have it in him during the 2nd go around. The telling thing is everyone in DNC leadership is complicit for supporting him. In playing it safe, and avoiding becoming pariahs in their own party we ruined our chances of another democratic president.

I don’t see this book as a total cash grab. It’s very easy to read overall, and goes over the main conflicts. The core issue is how comfortable everyone was in speaking once it was over. Biden, factually worked short hours, wasn’t on the main stage doing interviews publicly like other presidents. The media hyper focused on what they got, and often with his stutter cause him a lot of issues. Physically he’s an older weaker man from when he was the vice president and ultimately it’s the image that gets you elected. To say this book is full of deception or lies I find to be highly unlikely. I think it speaks more to the fear that people had of trying to overrule him, and anytime anyone tried to report on these issues, the White House would call it fake news.

I find Trump disgusting and I would have a magic 8 ball than him as president. There is clearly something absolutely wrong with the system if these were the two serious candidates.

As for the book it just made me disappointed in the state of the world. Reading this felt like it was easy to point the finger at Biden, but the reality was it was everyone in the sphere of news, social media. I more so really felt mad at myself for spending $16.00 to find out what more or less I already knew.

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More Reviews by Sean Penn: writer, actor, world stage
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Knee-Deep in the Dead
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