Biden Aide: Staff Defended ‘Undemocratic’ Actions Due to Perceived ‘Threat’ from Trump

Well, the mask finally slipped.

Thanks to journalist Alex Thompson’s bombshell of a book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, we’re now getting confirmation of what many of us suspected from the moment Biden squinted his way through that basement campaign in 2020: the man was never really in charge.

Thompson’s reporting, backed by White House insiders, reveals that Biden’s inner circle viewed Donald Trump as such a “threat to democracy” that they justified what can only be described as undemocratic behavior themselves. That’s right — in the name of saving democracy, they were willing to run a presidency from behind the curtain, treating the American public like distracted children in need of a bedtime story while they handled the real decision-making.

And handle it they did. According to one aide, Biden merely had to “show proof of life” every so often — a wave here, a mumbled teleprompter line there — while staffers made the sausage behind the scenes. These people weren’t running a presidency. They were running Weekend at Bernie’s: Oval Office Edition.

Now, let’s pause and reflect on what this really means. When you voted for Biden, you weren’t electing a leader — you were electing a staff. Aides, advisors, consultants, and unelected bureaucrats became the de facto government. This wasn’t some inspirational tale of a strong team supporting their aging commander. No, this was a shadow presidency designed to keep power in the hands of a Democratic elite while the man at the top increasingly lost awareness of what was even going on.

Thompson lays it bare: Biden’s staff believed they deserved a second term. Not him. Them. They were convinced that despite the president’s clear decline, they had advanced the Democratic agenda efficiently enough to earn four more years in power. But here’s the kicker — the American people weren’t buying it. They’d rather take their chances with Donald Trump, indicted or not, than endure another term of “Who’s really in charge this week?”

And if you’re wondering why they didn’t just replace Joe with Kamala Harris — well, apparently the Democrats weren’t that delusional. Voters didn’t want her either. Her approval ratings were in the sub-basement. So instead of facing reality, they propped Joe up one more time and hoped the old man could survive long enough to limp across the finish line.

Except he didn’t.

Now we find out Biden is battling stage 5 prostate cancer, which explains a lot — including why he’s been less than present in the national conversation. A diagnosis that serious isn’t just a personal battle; it’s a national crisis when the man is supposed to be leader of the free world. Imagine staring down China, Russia, Iran — or even your own economic collapse — while juggling chemo schedules and struggling to stay awake.

It’s not just sad. It’s dangerous.

This whole mess should be a wake-up call, not just for Democrats but for the American people. We were this close to enduring another term of a president who, by all accounts, barely knew what room he was in, surrounded by staffers more interested in maintaining power than doing what’s right for the country.

The rot didn’t start with Joe. But under his watch — or lack thereof — it spread. The lack of transparency, the manipulation of public perception, the arrogant assumption that the American people would just go along with it — it’s all part of a broader sickness in modern politics. And let’s not pretend this is over. The same people who bent the rules once will gladly do it again.

We need leaders — real ones — who are accountable, who are present, and who can stand on their own two feet without being puppeteered by a room full of interns with wireless earpieces.

So yes, America dodged a bullet by stepping away from Biden’s candidacy. But the fact we got this close to re-electing a man whose aides ran the show while he focused on staying upright — that should terrify all of us.

The future of this country won’t be decided by which party has the slickest PR campaign. It’ll be decided by whether voters demand honesty, competence, and leadership that actually leads.

And that starts by remembering one simple truth: the presidency is not a group project.