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Set for May 20 issuance, Original Sin, by CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios, reportedly discloses how the Biden White House and legacy media quislings strove to conceal the 46th president's fast-ebbing intellectual capacity.

Readers will recall Biden was customarily shielded from inquisitors. Rare contemporaneous remarks he did publicly offer frequently required "clean-up" statements penned by aides.

Footage of Biden's characteristic tumbles, shuffling, wandering, and inexplicable attempts to shake hands with bare air were dismissed as "cheap fakes" by protective newsroom allies.

As commentator Gent Goldstein recently wrote, Tapper himself has soiled hands. He had "spent years downplaying concerns, dismissing critics, and shielding Biden from scrutiny." Tapper repeatedly attributed the debilitated chief executive's verbal stumbles to a supposed "stutter," rather than admitting obvious descent into irrevocable bewilderment.

"The timing of Tapper’s book...suggests an opportunistic cash grab rather than real journalism," Goldstein wrote.

Ron Klain was Biden White House chief of staff, and helped the 46th president prepare for his debate with Trump. In Uncharted: How Trump beat Biden, Harris, and the odds in the wildest campaign in history, author Chris Whipple wrote : "Klain was startled. He'd never seen Biden so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, Biden excused himself and went off to sit by the pool."

And only some 25 minutes had passed in one debate rehearsal, when Biden announced he was tired and turned in.

But in an Aug. 14 CNN appearance that followed Biden's howlingly execrable debate performance against Trump, Klain dutifully dissimulated to Anderson Cooper: "He's clearly up to the job. He's doing it everyday. He's doing it successfully."

At this writing, Americans still don't know who was operating the White House autopen and signing Biden's name on numerous critical documents.

Though I've never been behind the Washington curtain, I feel safe speculating that Biden's deterioration was for years an open secret, at least among sympathetic politicians and Tapper's fake media comrades.

No disrespect for those suffering mental diminishment is intended here. I do not broach this without personal familiarity.

Like millions of American families, mine was sadly touched by a parent's similar plight. My mother, Jean Russell Larson, authored numerous childrens' books as well as poetic and other writings for adult readers. She taught creative writing at various Iowa colleges.

And I owe her for what authorial skills I can summon.

My mother's eventual dire medical situation made this issue real for me in a torturous way. Because of that tragedy, I regard sufferers with compassion and understanding.

(And being 65, I am not unmindful that such beleaguerment might loom on my own doorstep, one day.) 

But the American presidency is the most powerful institution in the world. Those in that office wield tremendous authority. They conduct international affairs, enter into trade and other treaties, head our country's military, attend to the general welfare, request congressional authorization for warfare, and even have access to nuclear codes.

Such awesome responsibilty requires intellectual lucidity. It is a crime against the American people to entrust authority of that magnitude to a man clearly meandering in the mist of compromised capacity.

Immediately following the debate during which Biden performed so miserably against Trump, an event that illustrated the fact of Biden's lamentable, irreversible dilapidation, I prayed for him. Because, ideological differences aside, he was a fellow human being who was suffering. 

And I asked God to help him.

But not all were compassionate. Primary blame must be accorded Biden's own family members for permitting the abusive spectacle (and profiting from it), as well as Democrat Party operatives that manipulated the inarguably invalid wretch for contemptible purposes. 

Too, Biden supporters who were aware of his obvious handicap (or who at least had sound suspicions) share moral culpability for resultant devastation of America.

We won't know until the May release of Original Sin whether CNN Democrat shill Tapper concedes complicity in the cover-up. Smart money says he won't.