‘Rusty’ Biden napped during debate prep while advisers hoped he’d be ‘game-day performer’: book

Source: New York Post

Then-President Joe Biden struggled in practice debates ahead of his disastrous showing against Donald Trump last year — leaving his advisers with little option but to cross their fingers and hope he would be a “game-day performer,” a new book about the collapse of the Democratic administration reveals. Biden’s advisers “blocked out substantial time to prep over several days” at the presidential retreat at Camp David in rural Maryland in June 2024. When the president turned up after a trip to Europe to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day and attend a G7 summit, he was “rusty and exhausted,” according to “Original Sin,” co-authored by Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper.