Stop asking about a Biden "cover-up" - Robert Reich

[justaprogressive]

Friends,

I’m truly sorry that Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

But the Biden news that’s been dominating headlines, exciting columnists, lighting up social media, and grinding up endless podcast hours has been something else: a so-called “cover-up” of the extent of Biden’s declining cognition before he resigned.

(Unless you’re Donald Trump Jr., in which case you suspect that even Biden’s prostate cancer was covered up.)

In their explosive new book out today, “Original Sin,” Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson call Biden’s aide’s refusal to admit how badly Biden’s mental capacities had deteriorated a “cover-up.” The book details Biden’s cognitive lapses and an alleged effort by aides to conceal them from the public ahead of his decision to end his re-election bid.

Many commentators are livid about what the book reveals. “The book makes it very, very clear there are people who knew and said nothing. And that is a crime against this republic,” huffed CNN’s Van Jones on Sunday. “I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up.”

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/stop-asking-about-a-biden-cover-up

[Lovie777]

1. The backfiring has already begun.....

[FalloutShelter]

2. But Criminal Cartel run by a RAPIST TRAITOR

Is A-OKAY……..right!
Got it, MSM.
Go directly to Hell.

[sop]

3. Republicans are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive fuck up:

Donald Trump

[bdamomma]

4. Exactly

The GQP will not "get out clean" on their treasonous actions.

[brush]

5. Leave it to Van Jones to always get on the republican band wagon against Dems.

He always knows what's expected from him.

[Emile]

13. Both

[librechik]

7. So when can I leave this horrible country?

I surrender.

[Bonx]

14. AFAIK you can leave at any time.

Is there something I'm missing?

[SocialDemocrat61]

8. This is the best part

Can we get back to reality? If one of our major parties is to rot in political hell for harboring “people who knew and said nothing,” it’s the party that now controls Congress.

Congressional Republicans know Trump has usurped the powers of Congress, is using the Justice Department to prosecute his enemies, is abducting people off the street and sending them to a brutal prison in El Salvador, and is actively dismantling American democracy — and yet they say nothing.

The so-called “Biden cover-up” is as much a distraction from all of this as are Trump’s stream of distractions (calling DEI an “illegal and immoral discrimination program” and jurists “communist radical-left judges,” saying we’ll invade Greenland, annex Canada, remake Gaza into a Mediterranean resort).

If you want a cover-ups, can you possibly find a bigger one than Trump’s entire regime? Every day, it seems, we learn of another effort to cover up facts to fit Trump’s wishes.

[Quiet Em]

12. Exactly.

People knew who the con artist was. People knew what the con artist would do. And they said and did NOTHING.

They have caused so much harm. Much of the harm is irreparable.

That is the sin. That is the wrong. That is the cover-up.

[peggysue2]

9. A crime against this Republic?

Ah, no. The crime is the media in its feeding frenzy is taking its eye off the REAL CRIME: Agent Orange and his Flying Money Brigade dismantling the country, corrupting the body politic and robbing us all blind.

[Boomerproud]

10. Was Van Jones one of the sources for the book?

Just asking.

[peggysue2]

11. Don't know, Boomer

But Van Jones has certainly joined the shiver of sharks feeding off every Biden trash piece.

[Bonx]

15. "Stop asking important, uncomfortable questions"

:/