Biden struggled to film 2024 campaign videos amid declining health, new book claims: 'The man could not speak'

Former President Joe Biden struggled to get through filming campaign videos or quick filmed keynote addresses for various groups during the campaign due to his declining fitness according to a new book The book Original Sin President Biden s Decline Its Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again reported 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 BIDEN FAMILY MISLED RESIDENTS CONCEALED DETAILS ON SON BEAU'S CANCER IDENTIFICATION NEW BOOK SAYSIn one incident Biden s squad 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 inhabitants the book explained 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 unit decided to scrap the footage While specific attributed challenges to poor lighting in the gym the book mentioned that others identified Biden as the real difficulty BIDEN MADE HARRIS CAMPAIGN A NIGHTMARE ' DESTROYED HER CHANCES BY STAYING IN RACE TOO LONG AIDES CHARGESimilarly when groups requested a five-minute video address of Biden for keynote events the White House would work to provide a one- or two-minute video the book disclosed Still given the time constraint Biden often couldn t make it through one or two minutes without botching a line or two according to the book The man could not speak one person familiar with the effort noted according to the book The person declared Biden faced an inability to find words to remember what he was saying to stay on one train of thought BIDEN AIDES SCRIPTED EVERYTHING ALLOWED HIS FACULTIES TO ATROPHY NEW BOOK STATES Aides would sometimes make the videos in slow motion to blur the reality of how slowly he veritably walked the person revealed 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 poll after Biden took so long to exit the race David Plouffe former President Barack Obama s campaign manager in and a senior advisor on Harris campaign stated that Harris' campaign was a f---ing nightmare because of Biden A former Biden staffer pushed back on the states included in the book and informed Fox News Digital This isn t true The book is riddled with falsehoods Biden's crew has also challenged the material in Original Sin which chronicles the voting cycle and how Biden s crew 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 commented in a message to Fox News Digital Nowhere do they show that our national guard was threatened or where the President wasn t otherwise engaged in the vital 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 and details the deterioration of his cognitive function