Speaking Tuesday night on NewsNation’s On Balance, Original Sin co-author and Axios reporter Alex Thompson told host Leland Vittert that, in his reporting for this bestselling book about the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden and its cover-up, one Biden administration source remarked to him they were shocked how compliant the press were of their lies about Biden’s mental state.
Thompson revealed this in response to a question from Vittert if “people in his inner circle…were…surprised by how complicit the media” were in this cover-up.
“[I]t was interesting. I had one conversation with someone — this was after the election while we were reporting this book and — and this person said, listen, yes, we deserve blame for X, Y Z. We were hiding him. We were — but this person also sort of got in my face and they said, listen,…