The second Trump Presidency is pretty much everything its critics said it would be, and a good deal more: an Administration staffed with unquestioning loyalists and Fox News hosts who are animated by a spirit of retribution and who are willing to forsake the rule of law when ordered to do so. It is a culture of grift. Every day is Teapot Dome: cryptocurrency scams, gilded airplanes, self-dealing from the Arabian Peninsula to Belgrade to the Oval Office.
There were many reasons for Donald Trump’s narrow, history-altering victory over Kamala Harris. One was undoubtedly an aging incumbent’s tragic refusal to make good on his remark, during the 2020 campaign, that he would be a “bridge” to the future—presumably, a future generation of Democratic contenders for the Oval Office. Jake Tapper, of CNN, and Alex Thompson, of Axios, report in their new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” on the Biden White House and the complex of self-delusion, self-righteousness, and concealment that took hold there. The authors portray Joe Biden, his family, and a tight circle of aides doing what they could to obscure the President’s increasingly diminished cognitive capacities.
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