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Biden Aide Admits Staff Did ‘Undemocratic Things’ Because Trump Was ‘Existential Threat To Democracy’
Daily Caller ^ | 5/25/2025 | Melanie Wilcox

Posted on 05/26/2025 8:12:05 AM PDT by simpson96

A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that White House staff felt justified doing “undemocratic things” during his term in office 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.

“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,” Thompson said.

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenadmin; bidenadministration; endsjustifymeans; presidentautopen; puppetgate
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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.
1 posted on 05/26/2025 8:12:05 AM PDT by simpson96
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I’ll take it a step further. The phrase continually used is “a threat to our democracy”. That means what they decide, and your opinion be damned because racism or homophobia or something.
2 posted on 05/26/2025 8:16:21 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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including sometimes doing undemocratic things...

Including Treasonous things?


3 posted on 05/26/2025 8:16:58 AM PDT by Hang'emAll (Gold is the money of kings, silver=money of gentlemen, barter=money of peasants, debt=slave's money)
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It’s downright frightening that people like this person are given governmental responsibilities. LORD have mercy on us, and protect President Trump, in the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.


4 posted on 05/26/2025 8:18:08 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: simpson96

The ends justify the means.


5 posted on 05/26/2025 8:18:56 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: simpson96

In order to save democracy, we must destroy democracy, nothing is off limits, quite like a deranged bunch of liberals who acted in place of the POTUS who was suffering from dementia and cancer.


6 posted on 05/26/2025 8:20:07 AM PDT by srmanuel
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They only care about the democrat’s dictatorship when they’re in power and when not in power the other guy is the dictator ,LOL


7 posted on 05/26/2025 8:21:50 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Interesting philosophy: “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,” Thompson said.

Exactly the words that Adolph Hitler used while justifying the slaughter of 6 million Jews. Today, it is “Free Palestine”, which is nothing more than a Communist organization.


8 posted on 05/26/2025 8:22:31 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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So the actual threat to democracy was their own deeds, justified via projection of their conduct which was "undemocratic".

Same drivers in the Federal Judiciary right now.

Bondi and Patel had better start prosecutions via grand juries from flyover regions. Don't base any prosecution out of Washington DC, Northern Virginia, or Maryland.

9 posted on 05/26/2025 8:22:38 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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the left has bastardized the rule of law and now knows no way to remedy anything, except with violence.

their revolution will be short and fatal.


10 posted on 05/26/2025 8:27:43 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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The Constitution most certainly does establish a democracy. Fifth grade civics, or as it was called back in the day, "history" class, taught that the United States was a representative democracy not a direct democracy. The founders explicitly rejected the notion of a direct democracy as too fraught with fragility and being subjugated to transient passions. It sort of worked until the XIXth.
11 posted on 05/26/2025 8:27:57 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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That’s the problem. Some people really believe that Trump is Hitler or worse.
If you believe that, then, obviously, you should do anything, to stop him!
I am not sure, how to convince these fanatics, that Trump is a friendly, older gentleman, with NO memory problems?


12 posted on 05/26/2025 8:28:27 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that White House staff felt justified doing “undemocratic things” during his term in office because they believed President Donald Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy.

These arrogant bastards thought *THEY* had the right to decide what was a "threat to Democracy."

They are idiots, and don't know anything about Democracy, or rights, or the fact that we are a Republic, *NOT* a Democracy.

These idiots need to be punished severely with prison. How dare they take it upon themselves to play god with our lives?

13 posted on 05/26/2025 8:28:28 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (`)
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Treason against the United States of America. The penalty is clear.


14 posted on 05/26/2025 8:30:06 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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Threat to democracy means he will stop our gravy train.


15 posted on 05/26/2025 8:33:01 AM PDT by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: Flaming Conservative

The Nazis would give small people just enough power to feel big.


16 posted on 05/26/2025 8:35:00 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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So what? They’re saying: “Do something about it, we dare you!”

Strongly worded letter is being drafted.


17 posted on 05/26/2025 8:35:13 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: simpson96

Leftists are an existential threat to peace and prosperity. Indeed, leftists are an existential threat to humanity. History proves that irrefutably.


18 posted on 05/26/2025 8:37:58 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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Thereby proving, beyond a doubt, that THEY were the “existential threats” to democracy.


19 posted on 05/26/2025 8:38:21 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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Biden Aide Admits Staff Did ‘Undemocratic Things’ Because They Are Corrupt


20 posted on 05/26/2025 8:40:28 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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