Former White House staffer Michael LaRosa has come forward to admit that Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign was “gaslighting” voters.
LaRosa said the campaign was in strict “denial” to the public and the media, Mediaite reported.
As the press secretary for then-First Lady Jill Biden, LaRosa had an inside view of the former president’s condition.
Biden was forced to give up his reelection bid after a humiliating debate performance against President Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, the official narrative was that he was “sharp as a tack” despite his advanced age.
Now that there’s nothing to lose, people like LaRosa and CNN’s Jake Tapper are ready to come clean.
Tapper, who also helped gaslight the American people on the issue, teamed up with Axios reporter Alex Thomson in a new tell-all book, “Original Sin.”
The book spills the secrets of the White House’s efforts to keep Biden’s cognitive decline under wraps.
LaRosa spoke with Tara Palmeri from Puck about what it was like behind the scenes.
When Palmeri interviewed LaRosa Wednesday at the Science Institute at American University, he denied a “cover-up.”
However, he said the lying began “Day 1” about the problems both with Biden’s age and his polling numbers.
“There are some things that are true, I mean, like the gaslighting,” LaRosa said.
“There was a lot of denial of the polling.
“And I will use the term gaslighting because that’s what they were doing, the campaign, former colleagues,” LaRosa added.
“The message to everybody was to make sure that you tell people it’s too early.
“It’s too early. These polls don’t mean anything.
“Well, it became too early,” he went on.
“And these polls don’t mean anything for about a year and a half.
“The polls, the numbers never moved,” LaRosa said.
“But by denying the data that was out there publicly, by denying the really insightful journalism, you know, they were actually demeaning to a lot of the people.
“But it was the data denial that really bothered me because we loved polling when we were running because we were always ahead.”
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LaRosa said the Biden campaign’s desperation got the best of it.
“All of a sudden, because they’re always behind, the polls are meaningless,” LaRosa shared.
“And they were attacking The New York Times.
“They did do a lot of gaslighting of people.”
“And I think if you were watching MSNBC, you probably believed them and were probably pretty shocked,” LaRosa added.
“But if you were consuming information, consuming data, and looking at it objectively, and trying to interpret it and process it objectively, then none of it was surprising.”
The campaign took to hiding Biden from the public.
“The president’s team was scared to death of impromptu, unscripted, un-rehearsed, unpracticed, un-choreographed, anything, they couldn’t compete for the attention economy,” LaRosa admitted.
“They just couldn’t do it.”
He said Biden “loves TV” but couldn’t be trusted.
“Biden needed the press,” LaRosa added.
“When he needed them the most, they didn’t trust him.
“They gave him the benefit of the doubt, and they put their foot on the gas and never took it off.
“And he was politically dead.”
It was obvious to anyone honest enough to say it that age got the best of Biden.
The only surprising thing about LaRosa’s confession is that even insiders are willing to admit their role in what’s arguably the most significant cover-up in presidential history.
