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Biden Aide Admits Staff Did 'Undemocratic
Things' Because Trump Was 'Existential
Threat To Democracy'

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Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 5/26/2025 10:08:53 AM

A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that the White House staff felt justified doing 'undemocratic things' because they believed President Donald Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy.The revelation came during an appearance by Axios reporter Alex Thompson on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream, where he discussed insider accounts from his reporting on the Biden administration. Thompson described a mindset inside the White House — one in which unelected aides saw themselves as the real decision makers while shielding Biden from scrutiny and managing the presidency behind the scenes

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Reply 1 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 5/26/2025 10:17:16 AM (No. 1955620)
Trump is not an existential threat to American democracy.... but he is an existential threat to autocratic, elitist, we-know-better-than-you Democrat rule, which is what Democrats are really talking about.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: hershey 5/26/2025 10:17:57 AM (No. 1955621)
Oh, ok, that makes it fine to lie about Biteme just because you are afraid of Trump...what worthless wankers..
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Reply 3 - Posted by: privateer 5/26/2025 10:19:46 AM (No. 1955622)
Blatant Commiecrat wordplay. They use two common buzzwords: 1, that the average yokel couldn't define, but has heard, and sounds important...'existential'; 2, a word they pretend applies to our Nation, but doesn't... 'democracy'. When nothing they could say that is true gets the job done, they have to lie and use phony verbiage.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Mass Minority 5/26/2025 10:26:25 AM (No. 1955626)
"The ends justify the means" Which leftwing favorite dictator said this, I forget was Stalin or that overrated German corporal.....
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Starboard_side 5/26/2025 10:27:32 AM (No. 1955627)
They were just so convinced of some imaginary thing that permitted them to excuse, justify, and rationalize their "undemocratic things" in order to save their version of democracy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Mr. Know-It-All 5/26/2025 10:29:23 AM (No. 1955628)
We had to destroy democracy in order to save it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: jimkata 5/26/2025 10:31:55 AM (No. 1955632)
Guy named A. Hitler also did 'Undemocratic Things' Because he thought other groups were an Existential Threat To Germany. Not much difference in the expression and thought process.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Midnight Rambler 5/26/2025 10:32:44 AM (No. 1955633)
Progressive logic on full display.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: FLCracker 5/26/2025 10:33:38 AM (No. 1955634)
Isn't this just the leftist version of "We had to destroy the village in order to save it?"
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bpl40 5/26/2025 10:41:22 AM (No. 1955637)
Democracy as used by 'Rats, MSM is a code word for One Party Left Wing Rule. View through this prism Trump being an existential threat to 'democracy' makes perfect sense. He is impervious to all their tricks - Ad hominem attacks, slander, politics of personal destruction, lawfare, even assassination attempts. No wonder they are deathly afraid of him. They should be!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Red Ghost 5/26/2025 10:45:42 AM (No. 1955638)
These are power mad, corrupt people. They have no love for the country and the Constitution. It's obvious, none of them believe in God. This nonsense that Trump is an existential threat is an overused, trite excuse for taking power. But, once you have accepted the philosophy and belief, "By Any Means Necessary" then everything and anything is justified and legitimate. This cannot stand for the sake of the country. These people must be investigated, tried and if convicted severely punished. J6? Makes me even more sick to my stomach when I think how many thousands of lives have been ruined by the same people that so flagrantly usurped and destroyed our government over these last four years.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: earlybird 5/26/2025 10:47:15 AM (No. 1955639)
This was not just a reaction to Bifden's failing cognition. This was the deliberate plan all along. FTA: Thompson also cited a quote from his reporting in which a longtime Biden aide openly admitted the president “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,” the aide reportedly told Thompson. “His aides could pick up the slack.” Access to Biden was tightly controlled by an inner circle of unelected staffers who managed his schedule and limited who could speak to him directly, Thompson said. “When you’re voting for president, you’re voting for the aides around him,” the aide said.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DougTN 5/26/2025 11:05:18 AM (No. 1955643)
Existential threat to Democrat Authoritarian Power. Democracy doesn’t mean much when your taking away others rights by any means possible.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: czechlist 5/26/2025 11:07:04 AM (No. 1955644)
“When you’re voting for president, you’re voting for the aides around him,” the aide said. No. I am usually voting against an incompetent socialist who will select incompetent socialists as aides
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Reply 15 - Posted by: dbdiva 5/26/2025 11:09:49 AM (No. 1955645)
"Undemocratic Things" sounds so much better than "Treasonous Things". s/ And.......when I vote I DO NOT vote for aides. But hey, thank you for admitting what many people already know; it isn’t news to us. The goofball's bragging, IMO, is grounds for undoing much of what "the aides" did during mr. biden's "term"
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Reply 16 - Posted by: earlybird 5/26/2025 11:33:53 AM (No. 1955654)
There has to be a stronger description of what they did than "endemocratic things"! And appropriate punishments.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: earlybird 5/26/2025 11:37:01 AM (No. 1955656)
Hit submit too soon. I thought I would see outrage on this thread. Have we drunk the Koolaid, too?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: kono 5/26/2025 11:43:39 AM (No. 1955657)
Wasn't the source in #4 a guy named Machiavelli?
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Reply 19 - Posted by: franco 5/26/2025 11:54:36 AM (No. 1955661)
#4: Pretty sure the guy who uttered that was Machiavelli (see "The Prince"), but I'm sure the "fake Russian" (of his time) Stalin (who was actually Georgian) and the Austrian Corporal embraced it as operating philosophy... as do today's Demon-rats...
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Reply 20 - Posted by: DVC 5/26/2025 12:25:02 PM (No. 1955676)
Excuses for their criminal behavior. Mere excuses from rotten, corrupt whiners.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: snakeoil 5/26/2025 12:25:38 PM (No. 1955677)
Somewhere in his/her/it's Mommy's basement pleasuring itself a dim strategist thought sticking "existential" in front of "threat" made it sound more sinister than just a plain, ordinary, garden variety threat. So who or what was the real threat to democracy? The dims tried to remove both President Trump and Secretary RFK, Jr. from the ballot in several states. That is a banana republic not a democracy. Same for lawfare. Unneeded adjectives such as "existential" only impress the easily impressed.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: downnout 5/26/2025 12:49:17 PM (No. 1955689)
Give it a rest, Axios.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: DVC 5/26/2025 12:57:22 PM (No. 1955696)
Doing evil and making whiney excuses...."Trump was SO, SO bad".......Lies, corruption, treason, and cowardice. These are truly evil people with no morality at all. They only worship POWER. Evil to the core.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: jasmine 5/26/2025 1:00:24 PM (No. 1955697)
Nonsense. There was no "need" to do "un-democratic things." Democrats simply CHOSE to do un-democratic things. They gladly accepted the "help" of our worthless MSM to promote the Russia Hoax, and in 2020 they all celebrated Biden's "win." It appeared Democrat funded propaganda had paid off. But the inevitable truth began to emerge. Joe Biden was unfit for office, and those closest to him knew it. The MSM and political insiders ran interference for him, but his senility became undeniable. Despite false claims (aka lies) about his "vigor" and "running circles around everybody" the REAL conspirators against America were exposed. They're selling books now, claiming they failed to recognize his advanced dementia. Some operatives even trying to create a narrative that Donald Trump, because he's just a few years younger than Biden, must be senile, too! The unholy alliance of the MSM, globalists, Democrats, and corrupt political insiders has shown the American people what an existential threat that could rob us of our freedom really looks like. The folks who pretended Joe Biden was running our country, when he couldn't possibly have done so, have some explaining to do. Pretty sure usurping the powers of the president is a crime.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: jalo1951 5/26/2025 1:43:50 PM (No. 1955719)
In their minds "Orange Man Bad" is their defense against treason charges. Oh, please.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: paral04 5/26/2025 1:49:03 PM (No. 1955725)
So, breaking the law to get even with your competition is defending democracy? Yeah, nice try.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: kono 5/26/2025 6:26:55 PM (No. 1955832)
An existential threat? Whereas the Dems are empirically enemies of our Constitution and capitalism.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: Jimmy Mack 5/27/2025 2:05:19 AM (No. 1955904)
1984
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