Biden’s inner circle of unelected White House aides were planning to just show Biden in public every once in a while to prove he was alive, and then they would handle the day to day running of the country.
It is easy to forget that before Biden’s disastrous debate performance last spring, he and his team were running full steam ahead on his reelection campaign. They actually believed Biden could win a second term and serve another four years.
Knowing what we now know, it’s obvious that this would have been impossible. But what if he had run and somehow won the election? How would his team have tried to pull it off? Now we know that too, and it’s terrifying.
According to Alex Thompson, Jake Tapper’s co-author on their new Biden book, Biden’s inner circle of unelected White House aides were planning to just show Biden in public every once in a while to prove he was alive, and then they would handle the day to day running of the country.
Thompson appeared on FOX News over the weekend and explained this evil plan.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: You quote a long-time Biden aide basically admitting he shouldn’t be running again. They said to you on page 85, ‘He 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.’ Who would have been running the White House in a second Biden term
ALEX THOMPSON, CO-AUTHOR: Well, this person went on to say that 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. And one of the things that really I think comes out in our reporting here is that 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.
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REPORT: Biden Had No Knowledge Of Several Executive Orders Signed By Autopen
A nonprofit organization has come forward with disturbing allegations surrounding a number of climate change-related executive orders issued by former President Joe Biden.
Power the Future, a nonprofit organization founded by energy expert Daniel Turner, released a report earlier this week detailing several “troubling” implications about a number of executive orders issued by Biden. The former president’s executive orders and pardons have been under intense scrutiny due to his extensive use of autopen technology, which has led to a formal investigation from the Department of Justice.
Back in March, the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project released a review of “every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency” and found that every single document signed during the Biden presidency had the same autopen signature. There was one notable exception, however, as the letter announcing then-President Biden’s exit from the presidential election appears to be the lone document signed with a different signature.
“Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency,” the Oversight Project wrote in their announcement.
The report from Power the Future, which reviewed a series of eight executive actions “that fundamentally reshaped American energy policy,” has now added to the growing scandal. The nonprofit found“no evidence” that the former president ever spoke about any of the reviewed orders.
“Not in a press conference. Not in a speech. Not even a video statement,” the nonprofit wrote in the report.
Among the orders in question included a directive that gave the federal government the right to lease public land for AI data centers powered by “green energy,” a January 2025 order that pulled over 625 million acres of the Outer Continental Shelf out of future oil and gas leasing and a March 2023 order that outlawed oil drilling in arctic areas.
There is also “no evidence” Biden had any knowledge of several 2021 orders that created new climate-related offices within the federal government and ordered all federal agencies to assess “climate-related financial risk” for all activities.
Biden also never publicly spoke about committing the entire federal government to net-zero emissions by 2050 and required 100% carbon-free electricity by 2030.
“Americans deserve to know which unelected staffers or radical unnamed activists implemented sweeping change through an autopen. The Biden energy agenda destroyed livelihoods of energy workers and fueled the record-high inflation that broke the budgets of millions of Americans,” Power the Future wrote in the report.
“The question is simple, and deserves an immediate answer: what did Joe Biden know, and when did he know it?”
The report comes after White House crypto and artificial intelligence czar David Sacks made the explosive claim that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was controlling the former president’s autopen signature.
“Elizabeth Warren controlled the autopen during that administration,” said the Trump advisor, adding that the Massachusetts senator has a “pathological hatred of the crypto community” and wanted to “drive this community offshore.”
The Biden shadow handlers who were REALLY running the White House, insiders reveal
A team of Biden administration insiders known as the ‘politburo’ were the ‘ultimate decision-makers’ running America as the president’s cognitive health declined, according to a new tell-all book.
A trio of senior political veterans who had known President Joe Biden for decades worked closely with his wife, Dr Jill Biden, and occasionally his troubled son, Hunter, to run the show, according to Jake Tapper’s book, Original Sin.
Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed were the core three decision-makers, the book claims, adding that former senior adviser to the president Annie Tomasini and former White House chief of staff Ron Klain were also ‘at times’ part of the group.
‘Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board,’ one source told the authors, Tapper and Alex Thompson.
‘In practice, Bruce Reed was the real domestic policy adviser, Mike Donilon was the actual political director, Steve Ricchetti controlled Legislative Affairs, and Klain controlled a bit of everything.’
The book states that this group could, and would, make decisions without consulting department heads, keeping Biden at an arms length from his own cabinet members and even some of his political aides.
One anonymous insider told the authors: ‘I’ve never seen a situation like this before, with so few people having so much power. They would make huge economic decisions without calling [Treasury] Secretary Yellen.’
The phrase ‘politburo’ is generally reserved for the upper echelon of power within a communist state.
Donilon had served as a senior advisor to Biden from the beginning of his presidency, but had been a close confidante of Biden’s since at least the 1980s.
He was described as a ‘true believer’ in Biden, and enjoyed mutual trust with the president.
‘The president valued Mike Donilon’s advice so much that aides would later joke that if he wanted, he could get Biden to start a war,’ Thompson and Tapper wrote.
Klain had also known Biden since the 1980s and was influential over policy decisions and key messaging.
According to the book, Biden’s aides had heard him boast of Klain over the years. He would reportedly say: ‘Only one person here is smarter than me, and it’s Ron.’
The book claims: ‘Biden showed a particular deference to Klain even though his chief of staff was often more progressive. Biden had deep respect for Klain’s intellect.’
And Ricchetti was a counselor to Biden throughout the presidency, also working as chief of staff during his vice presidency under Barack Obama.
Obama had, according to the book, expressed concerns about the ‘hangers-on’ within Biden’s circle.
Most recently, former White House aide Annie Tomasini found herself caught in the crossfires of fury over Biden’s use of autopen during his term.
Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer confirmed last week he had tried to subpoena three key White House aides during the Biden administration – including Tomasini.
He said ‘the Biden White House obstructed the Committee’s investigation and refused to make the aides available for depositions or interviews.’
According to the book, both Jill and Hunter Biden were prominent and permanent fixtures within Biden’s circle of trust.
This is despite aides and insiders partially blaming Hunter for the president’s rapid deterioration.
‘To understand Joe Biden’s deterioration, top aides told us, one has to know Hunter’s struggles,’ the book stated.
While promoting his book, Tapper was asked about Hunter’s role in the administration and influence over his father.
Fueled by information garnered through interviews with more than 200 people for the book, Tapper answered: ‘I think Hunter was driving the decision-making for the family in a way that people – he was almost like a chief of staff of the family.
‘It’s bizarre because I think he is provably demonstrably unethical, sleazy, and prone to horrible decisions,’ Tapper – whose book is called Original Sin – added.
‘After his brother died, he cheated on his wife with his brother’s widow and then got her addicted to crack.
‘I don’t have a lot of personal regard for him, and just based on having nothing to do with,’ he added later on.
‘I barely have ever met him. I’ve met him like once or twice.’
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