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(NewsNation) — Former President Joe Biden announced his prostate crab diagnosis just days earlier a publication was released detailing an alleged cover-up regarding Biden’s wellness and intelligence decline.
"Original Sin," co-authored by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson, deed shelves Tuesday. Excerpts from the publication see explosive claims that Biden's aides covered up signs of cognitive diminution during his presidency and reelection bid — including an incidental successful which Biden allegedly didn't admit George Clooney astatine a fundraising lawsuit contempt having known him for years.
The publication claims Biden relied connected teleprompters and enactment cards, adjacent successful backstage Cabinet meetings, and that unit utilized aggregate cameras to edit retired mistakes oregon screen flubs connected videos. It besides claims aides considered the anticipation of Biden needing a wheelchair if helium were reelected.
'History volition reward the truth': Naomi Biden
Some members of the Biden household person slammed the book's release, calling it "political smut," and person denied the allegations.
Naomi Biden, the erstwhile president’s granddaughter, slammed the publication connected societal media and said it "relies connected unnamed, anonymous sources pushing a self-serving mendacious communicative that absolves them of immoderate work for our existent nationalist nightmare."
"History volition reward the truth," she said.
In a caller quality connected ABC's "The View," some Biden and erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden denied reporting that the erstwhile president's cognitive abilities drastically declined successful his last twelvemonth successful office.
"They are wrong. There's thing to prolong that," Biden said.
"The radical who wrote those books were not successful the White House with us," Jill Biden added. "They didn't spot however hard Joe worked each azygous day."
Criticism over handling of Biden's health
While offering support to his erstwhile governmental rival, President Donald Trump questioned the timing and transparency of the announcement.
"I deliberation it's precise sad. I'm amazed that the nationalist wasn't notified a agelong clip ago," Trump said. "It's a very, precise bittersweet situation, and I consciousness precise severely astir it, and I deliberation radical should effort and find retired what happened."
Vice President JD Vance besides raised concerns astir the public's deficiency of information, blaming Biden’s interior ellipse much than Biden himself.
