'Intensely loyal' Jill Biden aide despised by White House staffers, new book claims

President Joe Biden's aides see archetypal woman Jill Biden 1 of the astir almighty archetypal ladies successful history, according to the caller book, "Original Sin," by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios governmental analogous Alex Thompson. 

By proxy, the archetypal lady's apical aide, Anthony Bernal, became 1 of the astir influential radical successful the White House, Tapper and Thompson said successful their caller publication astir Biden's cognitive diminution and the administration's alleged cover-up. 

"He would not beryllium invited astatine my funeral," a longtime Biden adjutant told the authors. 

Operating successful a White House anchored successful loyalty, Bernal wielded loyalty arsenic a limb to weed retired the defectors, Tapper and Thompson said. 

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Jill Biden and her elder advisor, Anthony Bernal (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

"He considered loyalty to beryllium the defining virtuousness and would wield that connection to elevate immoderate and oust others – astatine times reasonably and astatine times not. ‘Are you a Biden person?' helium would inquire West Wing aides. ‘Is so-and-so a Biden person?’ The regular interrogations led immoderate colleagues to dub him the person of the ‘loyalty police,’" the journalists wrote successful "Original Sin."

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During the pandemic, Biden traded the run way for lockdown. Two aides, Bernal and Annie Tomasini, recovered their mode into Joe and Jill Biden's pod, shifting the powerfulness dynamic of Biden's alleged "Politiburo," the radical of advisors who steered Biden's governmental orbit. 

Tapper and Thompson picture the "intensely loyal" duo arsenic taking connected an "older-brother-and-little-sister vibe." Thompson adjacent had the rubric of lawman run manager, which Tapper and Thompson said was "unusual for a staffer to a spouse." The duo were the masterminds down loading a teleprompter for Biden up of a section interview, a misstep that followed Biden's campaign.

Jill Biden (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

"The value of Bernal and Tomasini is the grade to which their emergence successful the Biden White House signaled the occurrence of radical whose allegiance was to the Biden household – not to the presidency, not to the American people, not to the country, but to the Biden theology," the authors wrote. 

Tapper and Thompson said it was hard to find galore Bernal defenders and described him arsenic utilizing his powerfulness to formed retired "potential heretics."

Joe Biden and Jill Biden (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

As Bernal earned a estimation for trash-talking chap aides, "some adjacent described him arsenic the worst idiosyncratic they had ever met," Tapper and Thompson said. 

Bernal and Tomasini took connected immoderate of the residence staffers' roles successful the White House. Tapper and Thompson said the aides "had all-time entree to the surviving quarters, with their White House badges speechmaking ‘Res’ – uncommon for specified aides."

When the Biden run began gearing up for a re-election run and immoderate voiced fears astir his property oregon battleground authorities polling, Bernal and different elder staffers reacted dismissively astir Vice President Kamala Harris launching a bid. Bernal is quoted successful the publication arsenic having said, "You don't tally for 4 years – you tally for eight."

Joe Biden (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP)

"He had already begun readying the archetypal lady's 2025 planetary question schedule," Tapper and Thompson said. Bernal worked overtime to elevate Jill Biden's "profile and glamour," freely criticizing her looks and outfits and adjacent calling her "Jill," according to the authors. 

Jill Biden and Bernal worked successful tandem, keeping people of "who was with them and against them." The publication described the archetypal woman arsenic "one of the main supporters of the president's determination to tally for reelection, and 1 of the main deniers of his deterioration." 

Bernal's loyalty to the Bidens ne'er faltered, and adjacent aft the disastrous statement show successful July 2024, Jill Biden and Bernal were determined to support pushing connected done November, Tapper and Thompson said. 

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Fox News Digital has written extensively dating backmost to the 2020 statesmanlike run astir Biden's cognitive diminution and his interior circle’s role successful covering it up.

A erstwhile White House staffer fired backmost against Tapper and Thompson's allegations astir Bernal successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

"A batch of vignettes successful this publication are either false, exaggerated, oregon purposefully omit viewpoints that don’t acceptable the communicative they privation to push. Anthony was a beardown person with precocious standards and a mentor to many. He’s the benignant of idiosyncratic you privation connected a squad - he’s incredibly strategic, effective, and cares profoundly astir the radical helium manages," the erstwhile White House staffer said.