The debate over how Democrats and the media handled questions about former President Joe Biden’s age-related decline has been reopened by former aides and a forthcoming book. 

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described a Democratic “firing squad” forcing her boss out of the presidential race. “I had never seen a party do that in the way that they did,” she said at the Harvard Institute of Politics. “And it was hurtful and sad to see that happening. A firing squad around a person who I believe was a true patriot, a person who I believe did everything he can for this country.”