As the mask continues to get ripped off the Biden-Harris White House's extensive cover-up of former President Joe Biden's decline, we are learning more and more about the roles family members were likely to have played.

For instance, speculation has swirled around what Biden's wife, former First Lady Jill Biden, knew about Biden's cognitive decline during his time in office, since she was the closest to him of all family members, and was said to be heavily involved in his decisions to run for president in 2020, reelection in 2024, and staying in the race after the disastrous debate. 

There was also her well-documented role of micromanaging his days, speaking on his behalf when he seemed at a loss for words, and aggressively confronting staff when his public appearances weren't more tightly scripted to lessen the possibility of more embarrassing moments.

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On Tuesday, the Joe Biden exposé "Original Sin," written by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, was released. While much about the cover-up was known well before the book hit the shelves, the fresh revelations have had some of Biden's staunchest Democrat political allies running for cover and pretending like they didn't see any signs of cognitive decline.

As it turns out, the extent of the Biden family's cover-up of major health issues dates back much further than previously known, and involves not just Joe Biden but his late son, Beau Biden, as well:

Tapper and Thompson recount in Original Sin how the Biden family covered up Beau Biden's diagnosis of terminal brain cancer in the summer of 2013, when Beau was the sitting attorney general of Delaware and Joe was the sitting vice president. The family discussed how much information to disclose about Beau's health, but ultimately said nothing as Beau started to limit his public appearances. In November, Beau lied to a reporter and said doctors had given him a "clean bill of health." Several months later, Dr. Wai-Kwan Alfred Yung released a fraudulent statement about how he was "very pleased to give Mr. Biden a clean bill of health" after removing a "small lesion" that was actually a "tumor the size of a golf ball." Beau lied to reporters again and insisted he was "all good."

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Beau continued to serve as attorney general throughout 2014, even as he began having difficulty speaking. In April, he announced his intention to run for governor of Delaware. Meanwhile, Joe Biden used his power as vice president to secretly fly Beau around the country for treatments using a false name. Occasionally, the vice president "instructed his team to mislead the media about his whereabouts," Tapper and Thompson write. 

On CNN's "Outfront" program Tuesday, Tapper was asked about the parts of the book that specifically dealt with this issue, and here's what he said:

But that said, like, this is a pattern with this family. They do not tell the truth. They do not disclose when it comes to especially health issues.

But beyond that, a person close to the family told us this is internally almost like a family motto. Don't -- the way they put it is in the family, it's going to sound crass, it's not my terminology. Don't call a fat person fat. It means don't acknowledge ugly truths.

And this person close to the family said this is a family motto in terms of how they live. Don't acknowledge that Beau is dying. Don't acknowledge that Hunter has a serious addiction problem. Don't acknowledge that Joe is deteriorating and its part of how they live.

Chapter 3 of Original Sin details how the Biden family covered up Beau Biden’s cancer, even getting a doctor to release a “clean bill of health” letter knowing Beau would not survive brain cancer. Sounds very familiar.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 20, 2025

In his interview Tuesday with independent journalist Megyn Kelly, Tapper said that a top aide told him that losing his son in 2015 "was like watching somebody pour water on sand—that was the effect on [Biden's] psyche." 

Something Chuck Todd talked about in December 2024 speaks to this, with the former "Meet the Press" anchor claiming there was such emotional turmoil in the Biden family over the issues with Hunter Biden and over the tragic loss of Beau that Joe Biden should not have run for president:

"Joe Biden's got—needs therapy and I say this with respect. He has not processed Beau's death. He has an issue—he cannot, he has this issue with Hunter. He second-guesses everything he's done with raising Hunter versus raising Beau. He, I think blames himself for Hunter's inability to conduct himself as an adult for a period of time," Todd said.

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Todd concluded his response by claiming President Biden was "emotionally incapable" of being president and "probably never should have run."

While that undoubtedly was part of Biden's issues, the cognitive concerns were even more pressing to the extent that other Democrats and media figures were raising the issue after Biden declared his candidacy in 2019 and before Donald Trump and his allies said a word about any of it.

I think the information from Chapter 3 of the book lends more credence to the possibility that Biden's physicians and family, including Jill, may have known sooner than now about Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis, and chose to keep quiet about it. 

While it's not clear whether we'll ever learn the full truth of the matter, we know enough between what we've seen with our own eyes over the years and now the book to draw informed conclusions about the Biden family and how far they'll allegedly go to keep things they don't want the public to know under wraps.

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