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A Biden Family Insider Tells All

Michael LaRosa, longtime press secretary for first lady Jill Biden, opens up about how aides hid the president from the press and ignored bad polls, as well as the “cover-up” allegations at the center of the great 2024 blame game.

Michael LaRosa
"I just assumed—kind of like Barack Obama probably assumed. I figured that by 2024, this was going to be, 'Okay, we’re going to pass the torch to another generation of Democrats, and let them handle a Trump 2.0 campaign,'” Michael LaRosa tells Puck's Tara Palmeri. Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
February 28, 2025

Whatever prevented the Washington media from telling the full story of Joe Biden’s declining health, that spell has been broken. Indeed, the same people who turned a blind eye to the president’s mental state are now buzzing about Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s forthcoming book, Original Sin, which promises an “unflinching and explosive” accounting of Biden’s reelection campaign “despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration.”