Overview

• Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book Original Sin claims senior aides and family members concealed signs of President Biden’s cognitive and physical decline.
• Former President Bill Clinton told CBS Sunday Morning he never observed any mental deterioration in Biden and declined to read the book’s claims.
• On May 18, the White House disclosed Biden’s diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones.
• House Oversight Committee leaders have requested interviews with Biden’s former physician and senior aides ahead of the June 18 hearing on a suspected health cover-up.
• The unfolding inquiry and public disputes have intensified scrutiny of transparency standards for presidential health disclosures and accountability in government.