But don’t call it a cover-up, says longtime Biden aide Michael LaRosa. “We all wear makeup on TV,” LaRosa tells Puck’s Tara Palmieri at one point. But we don’t put makeup on faces that no longer have noses or eyes. And the White House had troweled on cognitive “makeup” on Joe Biden for a lot longer than just in 2024, too.
At least LaRosa admits that the concern actually started in 2019, and had gotten to the press enough that questions about Biden’s stamina had already arisen:
Tara Palmeri: You worked so closely with the Biden family for years. I have to ask, do you think it’s accurate, as Original Sin states, that there were “desperate efforts to hide the extent of [Biden’s] deterioration” in 2024?
Michael LaRosa: There are many things there that are true, in my view. Calling it a cover-up is a little harsh and exaggerated. Every politician, every…
