In a controversial revelation from the book "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," co-author Alex Thompson discusses how Biden's aides felt justified in performing undemocratic actions to protect him amid concerns about his mental decline. They perceived Donald Trump as an existential threat to democracy, rationalizing extreme measures to keep him from power. Thompson highlights the reliance on unelected aides who, despite acknowledging Biden's shortcomings, were determined to facilitate his continued presidency for the sake of political expediency.
"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."
"When you're voting for a president, you're voting for the aides around him. But these aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides... These are White House aides, these were unelected people."
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