Former President Joe Biden bombed a closed-door, scripted town hall so badly the footage was unusable for campaign purposes, a new book alleges.
Axios’ Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper released “Original Sin” Tuesday, and the book is based on more than 200 interviews with Democratic Party and White House insiders.
The sources detail just how bad Biden’s decline reportedly was while he was president. The book alleges Biden’s aides staged a town hall in Delaware with a friendly audience so they could video it for campaign ads, according to Axios.
But instead they were left with over 90 minutes of unusable footage, the outlet noted.
“The man could not speak,” one person involved said, according to Axios.
Some sources blamed “the gym’s lighting for the event being a dud,” but others were confident it was the former president’s performance, the book reportedly detailed.