“History happened right in front of me,” Mike McCormick writes in his book, “Joe Biden Unauthorized: And the 2020 Crackup of the Democratic Party.” “I saw it and heard it firsthand.” As he notes wryly, “From what I’ve seen and heard in my years working for Joe Biden, carelessness is one of his defining characteristics.”
For fifteen years, under three American presidents, McCormick worked as a White House stenographer. For six of those years, he chronicled then-Vice President Joe Biden. As Biden’s official transcriber, McCormick traveled the world on Air Force One and Air Force Two and accompanied the second in comman ...