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From Fox News: Former President Joe Biden struggled to get through filming campaign videos, or quick, filmed keynote addresses for various groups during the 2024 campaign due to his declining health, according to a new book.
The book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” said that Biden stumbled through filming campaign videos so much that the footage was ultimately deemed “unusable.” The nonfiction book was published Tuesday and is authored by journalists Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios.
In one case, Biden’s team sought to film a video for the campaign for ads on television in a high school gym where people could ask questions like they would at a town hall meeting.
“The campaign was trying to make it look like the president was out there taking off-the-cuff questions from voters in public,” the book said. “But the event was closed to reporters, and the campaign had the full list of questions that people would ask.”
However, Biden had so much “trouble” getting through the questions that his team decided to scrap the footage. While some attributed challenges to poor lighting in the gym, the book said that others identified Biden as the real problem.
The report notes that even when trying to film short promo videos, Biden often “couldn’t make it through one or two minutes without botching a line or two.”
One source familiar with the situation recalled, “The man could not speak.” The person explained that aides would often make videos of Biden walking in slow motion, to disguise how slow he was actually walking, and editing videos to present Biden in the beset possible light often took hours.
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— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 23, 2025
Exclusive: Biden’s physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting him in a wheelchair, but they couldn’t do so until after the election
From my book w/ @jaketapper https://t.co/iI0qHEkMGw— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 13, 2025
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