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These narratives of Trump's decline have the same source as the narratives about Biden's age.
Thiel. Musk. Rockbridge or Koch Network.
Peter Thiel is one heart attack or brain aneurysm away from having his puppet JD Vance ensconced in a dictatorship.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/media/jake-tapper-original-sin-biden-book.html
Jake Tapper got a book deal out of it.
Was Penguin hoping to forestall a Trump lawsuit? Merger? Competition?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-sues-media-outlets-bias
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/30/trump-allies-launch-maga-publishing-house-523564
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/penguin-random-house-and-ss-deal-bad-democracy/617334/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/21/penguin-simon-schuster-merger-abandoned-paramount-bertelsmann
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Jake Tapper is conspicuously silent on Junior, Eric, and Ivanka...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jake-tapper-hunter-joe-biden-book-b2754885.html
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-15/abcarian-nepotism-biden-trump
So is McConnell
https://puck.news/newsletter_content/the-thiel-mcconnell-tug-of-war/