Well written, researched, and documented. This book gives the reader an inside view into how corruption festers in our current political system, and how a few people can hold an entire country hostage.

Very compelling read. I don’t doubt the legitimacy of the material. If true, we were misled in an epic proportion as voters. However, even as is referenced in these pages, the way it was covered at the time was malpractice. Where was this urgency to communicate the research described here? No, it was held until Biden was not president. The authors write of Trump being held to the same standard as Biden, but that’s not really true. It hasn’t been true since 2016 and it isn’t now. A fascinating, commendable, and at times courageous read. But also one that is too late and too opportunistic to be taken in entirely good faith.

I’ll start by saying how grateful I am for the reporting Alex Thompson did on Biden’s decline in 2023 and 2024. In a legacy media filled with cowards and/or partisans, he bravely pursued and published work on the most important presidential story in decades when almost every other political journalist in the country was either out to lunch or willfully dissembling. The majority of the book is a fairly straightforward account of the last two years of Biden’s presidency when, according to the authors, his decline steepened significantly. It’s an easy read and reasonably compelling in its narrative. I understand the authors view this edition as a polished first draft, due to constraints required by publishing speed. That’s good to hear, because there are some significant omissions in this version. The press and VP Harris are let off the hook almost completely. The Harris section of the book, in particular, reads as though someone was afraid of offending her or damaging her reputation. While the other members of the Biden administration who defended the President’s acuity (remember “sharp as a tack”?) are duly taken to task, Harris is given a complete pass, despite the fact that she reportedly had weekly lunches with the President during his term and continued throughout her campaign to defend has competency to serve. The shift in tone in that section is extremely jarring and noticeable. As importantly, there is very little accounting (not none, but close) of the press’s culpability or complicity in what might be charitably described as an underreported story, or less charitably as a cover-up. The total abdication of journalistic responsibility by essentially every White House reporter in the country (excepting Alex and a couple WSJ folks) is nearly as big and important a story as the President’s decline, and there’s very little time devoted to it here. I understand Alex believes the press complicity angle merits a second book. Whether that history is recorded in a new version of this book or another separate volume, I earnestly hope it gets told. Despite Jake’s debatably marred record on this specific subject matter, both of these men are extremely well-sourced and credible, and it’s a shame the first version stopped so far short of recording the whole story. Post Script: Chuck Schumer, who clearly participated quite a bit in the construction of this book, also gets the Harris-style pass on any complicity.

Jake Tapper thoroughly exposes Biden as a self centered old man surrounded by sycophants and enablers.

No new information that’s not already out there.

Well worth the read no matter your political leanings.

Everyone hid it in plain sight - even if you supported Biden, you knew he really wasn’t in charge of the country - and the media covered it up - but I was still stunned by so many things in this book - recommend it highly…

I just wish that he would have told the truth much sooner.

Wat hit the news cycle was just the tip of the iceberg. There’s alot more to the deception that this book reveals. Easy to read and hard to put down

So Jake Tapper was duped by the Biden administration? This book is nothing but a cover for an inept legacy media. Everybody saw what’s written in this book 4 years ago. Total garbage. Save your money.