How stupid do former President Joe Biden and his praetorian guard handlers think we are? This week, that really is the question that ought to be on all our minds.

Yesterday, CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson released their much-anticipated book, Original Sin. The new book argues that for years, Biden's inner circle concealed the full state of his mental and physical decline in an attempt to gaslight the American people into thinking that Biden was up to the task of being leader of the world—when he very clearly was not.

Hold aside, for now, the astonishing lack of self-awareness on behalf of Jake Tapper—a host who, more than virtually anyone else in the Democratic Party's sprawling, Pravda-like media echo chamber, went above and beyond to carry water for Biden while conservative media voices were asking difficult questions about the president's palpably declining state. Tapper faced a grueling interview with popular podcaster Megyn Kelly, and deservedly so. He should frankly be ashamed of himself, and the chutzpah to even affix his name to a book like Original Sin is simply extraordinary.

But for present purposes, and holding aside the corporate media's undeniable complicity in the cover-up, let's focus on the latest plot twist to this ongoing saga: On Sunday evening, Biden and his handlers announced for the first time that the former president has advanced prostate cancer, and that the cancer has "metastasized to the bone." Americans would be forgiven for asking: Um, come again?

First, everyone of course ought to pray for the former president. I sincerely hope that goes without saying. But suffice it to say that advanced prostate cancer does not magically appear without glaring signs. Do the president and his handlers seriously expect us to believe that this has all transpired since he departed the Oval Office on Jan. 20—a mere four months ago? Are you kidding me? Absolutely no one believes that—nor should they.

The overall picture that is emerging here is nothing less than one of the greatest cover-ups in American history. The president's wife, Jill, is right at the center of it. So are all of Uncle Joe's former senior White House staffers. And what about the White House doctor—what did he know, and when did he know it?

There are very, very real questions that must be asked here. And using the subpoena power to ask such questions would be just about the closest thing to an easy political victory congressional Republicans might be able to garner at the moment. After all, when the Democrats have lost folks like Jake Tapper and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel—who on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show on Monday morning entirely dismissed the possibility that the White House didn't know about the cancer diagnosis while Biden was serving as commander-in-chief—they're in rough shape.

Pray for the president, yes. But this is a monumental scandal. The story is not going away anytime soon. And one strongly suspects that Democrats will be paying a hefty political price for this for a long time to come.

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