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Biden aides were willing to do ‘undemocratic things’ to keep faltering president in power: ‘Original Sin’ author 

May 26, 2025
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Biden aides were willing to do ‘undemocratic things’ to keep faltering president in power: ‘Original Sin’ author 
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Joe Biden’s aides were willing to do “undemocratic things” to cover up the former president’s mental decline and keep him in power for another four years, the author of a bombshell book revealed Sunday. 

Biden’s team of unelected staffers felt justified in “picking up the slack” for the faltering commander in chief and shielding him from the public because they viewed President Trump as an “existential threat” to democracy, Alex Thompson, co-author of “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” told Fox News’ Shannon Bream. 

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Biden staffers felt justified in taking “undemocratic” measures to ensure the president remained in power, Alex Thompson, who co-authored “Original Sin” with Jake Tapper, claimed. Getty Images

“Who would have been running the White House in a second Biden term?” Bream asked Thompson, after noting that he quoted a long-time Biden aide in his book “basically admitting he shouldn’t be running again.”

“Well, this person went on to say that when you’re voting for a president, you’re voting for the aides around him,” the author and Axios journalist revealed. 

“But these aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides,” Thompson pointed out. “These are White House aides, these were unelected people.” 

Bream highlighted a passage from Thompson’s book, where one anonymous aide argued Biden “just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years. He’d only have to show proof of life every once in a while … His aides could pick up the slack.”

Thompson explained that in his reporting for the book with co-author Jake Tapper, it became clear that many in Biden’s orbit were willing to go to extreme lengths if it meant keeping Trump out of the Oval Office. 

“If you believe — and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy — you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things, which I think is what this person is talking about,” Thompson told Bream. 

Cover of Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
The bombshell book details Biden’s mental and physical decline and Democratic efforts to cover it up. AFP via Getty Images
Thompson’s book, “Original Sin,” was released last week. Fox News

In his book, Thompson referred to the small group of people in Biden’s inner circle running the White House as the “Politburo,” noting that the term was also used by some within the administration. 

The small, tight-knit group included top Biden aides Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed, as well as first lady Jill Biden and the president’s scandal-scarred son, Hunter.

Thompson claims the “politburo” were the “ultimate decision-makers” as Biden’s mental acuity declined.

The term “politburo” is commonly defined as the top echelon of a communist state. 

The post Biden aides were willing to do ‘undemocratic things’ to keep faltering president in power: ‘Original Sin’ author  appeared first on New York Post.

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