New book reflects Biden familys delusions of grandeur and how their greatest strength is living in their own reality

There were so many lies told by Joe Biden, his wife and their aides that it’s hard to distinguish delusion from reality when assessing his disastrous presidency and determining who needs to be held accountable for all the crimes and coverups.But let’s start with Hunter Biden.According to an exclusive preview of the upcoming book “Original Sin” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, at the same time that the White House and Hunter were denying the existence of his abandoned “Laptop from Hell” in early 2022, Biden aides were so concerned about the political fallout that they secretly organized for the Democratic National Committee to obtain a copy of the hard drive.“The [re-election] campaign needed to be politically prepared, and Biden needed to be personally prepared,” the authors say.Biden aides spent months mining the copy, through Hunter’s homemade porn, crack addiction and hooker fetish, not to mention the copious evidence of influence peddling and millions of dollars of payments from China and Ukraine.In the end, they created a defensive dossier laying out the most damning material that could be weaponized against Joe in his re-election campaign.In early 2023, after Republicans took back the House and prepared to hold investigations into Biden family corruption, Joe’s personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, “privately met with the president and the First Lady for an hour to go through all the sordid details,” and perhaps to convince them that running for re-election would put the entire family through unnecessary embarrassment and legal jeopardy.(Neither Bauer nor DNC communications director Rosemary Boeglin responded to requests for confirmation last week, so we are relying on Tapper and Thompson’s fact-checking.)Unlike Biden’s aides, Hunter was looking forward to the fight.He had “the delusion that this would be good for him or for his father . . .

He would finally get a chance to fight back after lying low.Biden aides sensed that Hunter ...