How much were his people trying to hide Joe Biden’s situation from the public?
A new account from the recently released book “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America” reveals just how dire the situation was.
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The authors spoke to President Donald Trump for the book, and they wanted to interview Joe Biden. However, his aides said that he was working on his memoir, which would conflict.
That sounds like a complete deflection so they could avoid having him interviewed. But one of the authors, Tyler Pager, reached out to Biden on his private phone, and Biden agreed to talk with him.
3/ This excerpt from the book — penned by @tylerpager and two other political reporters and called “2024” — is pretty stunning stuff: pic.twitter.com/QnKshF6mVg
— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) July 9, 2025
The conversation was brief.
Biden told Pager he had a “very negative” view of President Donald