Then-President Joe Biden and then-first lady Jill Biden arrive on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
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.
Then-President Joe Biden, accompanied by then-first lady Jill Biden, attends a campaign event at Strath Haven Middle School in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
"Aides would sometimes make the videos in slow motion to blur the reality of how slowly he actually walked," the person said. "If he was off, editing footage in a way that cast him in the best light would require hours of work."
The book also pinned the blame on Biden for then-Vice President Kamala Harris' unsuccessful run in the 2024 election after Biden took so long to exit the race. David Plouffe, former President Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2008 and a senior advisor on Harris’ 2024 campaign, said that Harris' campaign was "a f---ing nightmare" because of Biden.
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A former Biden staffer pushed back on the claims included in the book, and told Fox News Digital, "This isn’t true. The book is riddled with falsehoods."
Biden's team has also challenged the material in "Original Sin," which chronicles the 2024 election cycle and how Biden’s team allegedly plotted a cover-up to hide just how severely his mental faculties had declined.
"There is nothing in this book that shows Joe Biden failed to do his job, as the authors have alleged, nor did they prove their allegation that there was a cover up or conspiracy," a Biden spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Nowhere do they show that our national security was threatened or where the President wasn’t otherwise engaged in the important matters of the Presidency. In fact, Joe Biden was an effective President who led our country with empathy and skill."
The book is one of several that detail Biden’s decision to run in 2024 and details the deterioration of his cognitive function.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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