This explosive account details how Trump overcame primary challengers, legal troubles, and assassination attempts to win the 2024 election, while revealing the Democratic Party's miscalculations regarding Biden's age and Harris's rushed campaign. Based on 300+ interviews and exclusive access to campaign teams, it exposes pivotal moments from the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search to Biden's debate collapse.
Original Sin delves into the untold story of President Biden's decline and the concerted efforts to conceal the truth from the American public. Authors Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson meticulously uncover the hidden realities within the Biden administration. They shed light on the President's waning capabilities and the lengths to which his inner circle went to project an image of strength and competence. The book also examines the disastrous decision to pursue a second term despite mounting evidence of his cognitive decline. Original Sin is a shocking exposé of power, deceit, and the perilous consequences of placing personal ambition above the well-being of a nation.
Despite the chaos of January 6th, 34 felony convictions, and his party’s underperformance in the 2022 midterms, Donald J. Trump is once again president.
How did he defy political gravity to win again? Why did former President Joe Biden run despite overwhelming evidence that voters didn’t want him to? Was there a coverup to conceal his decline, as Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book, “Original Sin” alleges? Why did former Vice President Harris run such a cautious campaign and refuse to distance herself from Biden? And was she doomed by Biden’s late withdrawal, or did her own mistakes cost her the election?
As America enters its 250th year and a new political era, Kara speaks with the authors of 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America to answer these questions and understand how we got here. The trio breaks down how Trump beat back his Republican primary opponents, the Biden campaign’s fatal missteps, the Harris campaign’s stifling paralysis, and why Trump is now governing more like a king than a president.
Isaac Arnsdorf is a senior White House reporter for The Washington Post. His reporting on the first Trump assasination attempt was essential to the Posts’s 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, and he’s the author of "Finish What We Started," about the MAGA movement post January 6th.
Josh Dawsey is a political investigations and enterprise reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Josh was part of teams at The Washington Post that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for coverage of Jan. 6 and in 2024 for coverage of the role of the AR-15 in American life.
And Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. In 2022, he won the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.
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