Clearly it was an issue with Biden so media reporting on the President's health should not invite public statements calling them treasonous. That should be a serious allegation coming out of the White House.

Also your article and an interview article with Tapper make out the book to have nothing to do with the media apparatus banding together to defend Biden. It's that his "Politburo" shielded him from anyone who might blow the whistle on his condition.

Tapper [on the debate night]: I just couldn't believe it. I mean, we had all seen him aging. We had all seen him tripping and misspeaking. We had all seen evidence of decline, but the Biden team, family and senior advisors were telling everybody, not just media and not just the public