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The Biden Cover-Up Family

In the eye of the weeklong storm around the Biden-bruising, bestselling ‘Original Sin’ are authors Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, who are as unwavering in their criticism of the former president, and his coven of enablers, as they are in their reporting. Here’s what they had to say.

Jake Tapper Alex Thompson
In the week since its publication, the book’s kicked up a dust storm of headlines and positive reviews, as well as moving serious units (if the Amazon bestseller charts are any indication). Photo: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post/Getty Images
John Heilemann
May 27, 2025

Every so often a book comes along that manages to become the incessant, inescapable talk of the town in Washington, while tapping into the highly polarized, beyond-the-Beltway political zeitgeist: a book that manages, in other words, to be applauded and pilloried in roughly equal measure but also proves impossible to ignore.