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Jake Tapper's book has already faded from the news cycle, But he is examined because some of his claims are not as the authors have described them.
Politico obtained announcements that Tapper and Thompson claim that the Biden campaign could not use because the president's performance was so poor and found that the situation was not so simple.
Politico reported:
Three versions of test announcements obtained exclusively by Politico tell a slightly more complicated story.
Although the three are highly modified and include jumping cuts from Biden remarks, the images also show that the candidate engaging with public members. Politico has seen dated documents linked to the town hall planning and a painting in the gymnasium to confirm the date and location.
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A spokesperson for Biden told Politico that the campaign tested advertisements with discussion groups but did not deploy them before the president fell from the race after his disastrous debate in June 2024.
There is also an assertion that advertisements could not be used because the images contained lighting and technical problems, which occurs regularly during campaign advertisements.
There is also the question of verifying the facts that Tapper and Thompson claim to have paid. It turns out that the verification of the facts was limited as linked to the book. Biden’s aid also claimed that no one has ever contacted the subject of the book, Biden and his team, to check it with them.
Tapper and Thompson never talked about the book to verify any of their information, and their fact auditors either.
The emerging image concerns two authors who entered the writing process with a predetermined conclusion, which looked for information that allowed them to write the story they wanted to tell.
The authors do not seem to have sought in an effort to write a story of what happened in the Biden administration, but they had decided to write a book on the “Biden decline”, then conducted interviews for quotes that they could use to support their predetermined conclusion.
In this context, the book looks like a sensational cash outlet.
The real presidential stories take years to write. They are not slapped in a few months. Real historians speak to the subjects when possible, or at least offer the subject the possibility of speaking.
It is annoying that the profits seem to have been placed before a process of academic writing and investigation.
The American people deserves a well documented and detailed account of the presidency of Biden, including the 2024 campaign.
What Tapper and Thompson wrote was not.