Journalist Claims Biden Aides Planned Second Term Where They Only Needed to Sometimes Show ‘Proof of Life’
“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”
Jake Tapper’s co-author Alex Thompson of Axios appeared on FOX News Sunday this weekend and made some stunning claims about what Biden’s inner circle was planning to do if he secured a second term.
It’s easy to forget that prior to Biden’s horrible debate performance last spring, and even for some time after, his campaign was going full steam ahead on his reelection.
According to Thompson, if Biden won, the plan was to shuffle him out in front of the public once in a while as ‘proof of life’ while his aides actually ran the country.
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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Media critic Stephen L. Miller has a plausible theory about another aspect of a second Biden term:
Well no the plan was to win and then resign the presidency in year 1 or 2 to Kamala Harris which would've been infinitely worse and the one thing again none of these people are talking about https://t.co/yG06NyemBU
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 27, 2025
And of course, in another appearance on MSNBC, Thompson seemed to confirm what we suspect is the media’s true motive in all this talk about Biden’s mental acuity.
Axios’ @AlexThomp: “While we didn’t know much about Joe Biden’s health, we know even less about Donald Trump’s health” pic.twitter.com/li3MVlf1M4
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 26, 2025
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These aides need to be held to account in some fashion, but I don’t if that is possible,
I don’t know. Perhaps Sedition? Treason? They were seizing power they were not entitled to. I wonder which one of them was going to “Push the button” if a nuclear strike was required?
Yup. Planning an insurrection against the lawful government of the United States of America. They were going to seize power from an elected POTUS and exercise it surreptitiously. Everyone involved with this plan should be prosecuted. DOJ should extend the offer of a deal to the first whistleblower willing to testify against co-conspirators.
Is it “seizing” if it’s freely given? Other than the autopen I’m not sure what they can be charged with. If Biden says he gave them the authority to do whatever they did then that might be that unless you can prove Biden was mentally incompetent at the time and how are we going to rewind that clock?
It’s neither sedition nor treason. The only actual crime I can think of that they would have committed, if they had carried out their plan, would be signing bills and issuing orders and pardons in his name, without his having ordered them. And many speculate that they were already doing that in his first term, though proving it is likely to be impossible.
Proof of life? How? Showing a decrepit old man holding today’s edition of The Washington Post?
AI fakes.
Animatronic AI voiced fire side chats from Uncle Joe
They had created an entire video studio across the street from the White House. They probably intended to film a bunch of routine announcements (“Today, my administration welcomes all people of faith to celebrate Easter/4th of July/Memorial Day/Labor Day/Arbor Day/etc…”) early on and then roll out the announcements as necessary. Juice him up for similar video announcements in response to world events, keep public & state visits to a minimum.
Headline of Post will be “Dewey Wins”
“shuffle him out in front of the public once in a while as ‘proof of life’ while his aides actually ran the country”
Nice. The inverse Emmanuel Goldstein.
Maybe the same guy who slipped Joe the MAGA hat could slip him an Epoch Times in place of his WaPo.
Sounds kind of like those apparatchiks in the old USSR did to some of their leaders.
Communists doing what Communists do, there or here.
“Let’s save Democracy by destroying Democracy!”
Generally, if Biden had actually stumbled across the finished line and got reelected, his second term would have not been much different than his first term.
Criminals and a shadow government would continue to sign EOs with “the pen.” Biden would call it a day at 8 am, and the media would tell us how fit he was.
This pivot to “Trump has dementia” or “we don’t know about Trump’s health” is bullshit. The WH released the actual results of the tests that were done. His goal of dismantling the progressive machine in this country isn’t proof of dementia, it’s proof he’s still running circles both physically and cognitively around every democrat in congress.
Look, let’s be honest. The WH medical results released to the public about Donald Trump are just as dishonest as those under Biden. Both sides to do this all the time. I think Trump is suffering from early dementia, but just like Biden, his “White House Doctors” will declare that he is fit as a fiddle. New boss same as the old boss.
Looks like JR’s gotten hold of the latest Demotard talking points, as described by Fake Jake Tapper.
Look, let’s be honest.
You’re the dumbest troll we’ve ever had here. I mean, you have to be brain-damaged to think that “Trump is suffering from early dementia.”
Do you pay attention to anything he does? Have you watched any of his interactions with reporters? Any of his interactions with heads of state? Did you watch his speech in front of Saudi and Arab leaders? No?
JFC… he’s done more interviews with a decidedly unfriendly press, in four months, than Biden did with a media hellbent on giving him tongue baths.
The only one in this thread with early dementia is you, Mental Midget.
Get the hell out of here.
It’s instructive to note that an “early dementia sufferer” has repeatedly kicked and will continue to kick JR’s ass. Enjoy life under Your President… and then, Your Vice President.
“just as dishonest as those under Biden.”
No one believes that, even you. Why keep up the pretension? It’s sort of pathological.
It’s hilarious when you pretend you aren’t a Democrat. Look, troll… NOBODY BELIEVES IT. Spare us the “both sides” bullshit, because you only care about one side.
Off topic
It here’s proof the Supreme Court is NUTS
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1927373762770456983
Well, 3 of those Supreme Court Justices are Trump appointees, so are you saying that Trump is also NUTS?
^^^^ SOMEONE ate a bowl of stupid for dinner.
Historical data shows that justices nominated by Democrats have a 90% chance of turning out liberal, while justices nominated by Republicans have a 50% chance of turning out liberal. It’s the facts of life, just like there only being two genders.
JR, you’re really incompetent. There are some good valid complaints you could make against Trump. But finding them among all this nonsense is too much trouble and so you get no credit even if you do say something cogent.
You’re the one who’s nuts. So the Supreme Court denied cert. Do you realize how many cert petitions they get a year? And how few they can grant? If there isn’t a circuit split there was very little chance they were ever going to hear it.
And Mrs Raichik’s summary of the appeals court’s decision, that “the school was justified because the shirt carried a demeaning message”, is misleading. It’s not simply that the message was “demeaning” in some abstract way. “It was reasonable for Middleborough to forecast that a message displayed throughout the school day denying the existence of the gender identities of transgender and gender nonconforming students would have a serious negative impact on those students’ ability to concentrate on their classroom work.”
I don’t agree with the appeals court’s decision, but it’s not so egregious as to justify a grant of cert without a circuit split. You can’t deny that that might have been a possible outcome of allowing him to wear the shirt, and that’s all that’s required to distinguish the case from Tinker. In Tinker no one claimed that some students, whose fathers or older brothers were fighting in Vietnam, would be so distressed by the Tinker siblings’ armbands that they would be unable to concentrate on their classroom work. Maybe the school district should have raised such a claim, and if so maybe the outcome would have been different. It’s 66 years too late to speculate.
‘ While we didn’t know much about Joe Biden’s health, we know even less about Donald Trump’s health’
Oh really? Oh bullshit!
So, same as the first term.
was about to type the same thing.
Need someone like Kenneth Starr investigate this and hold people accountable.
But tell me more about how ‘nobody elected Elon’.
Nobody elected these clowns either, yet there they were running the country into the ground with President AutoPen.
The difference being that Trump, the duly elected president, used Musk, while these arrogant SoBs used Biden. Hell is too good for all of them. The hubris is unbelievable.
Well seems republicans yellow traitors are at it as always
Stab Musk and America in the back
What is going on here Trump?
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/desantis-doge-spending-cuts/2025/05/27/id/1212492/
Are you complaining about the RINO congressmen being called out by DeSantis for betraying Trump and Musk… or are you complaining about DeSantis?
It’s not like we should all be surprised about a RINO problem cropping up. Frustrated, surely, but hardly surprised.
Republicans are as interested as Democrats in cutting waste and shrinking the bureaucracy. That’s to say, no one in DC wants to shut off the gravy train.
fjb team was still using the manifesto of the transhooter
There might be some lame excuse as to why they continued to run the government after Joe became a potted plant, but to plot and plan to continue for four more years is sedition. This is called a silent coup and only differs from an armed coup by the use of guns to complete. To plan to continue to decieve the American publick for four more years is about as anti-Democratic as anything can be. This was a planned takeover of our country! What do we call people who plot to takeover our country? Traitors!
No, it was an armed coup.
If J6 was an armed insurrection, then this was an armed coup.
It’s highly likely that all involved have two arms, so, yes, it was an armed coup.
Well, it kinda worked for his first term.. I mean, a glitch here and there but, it was all a show..
“Stephen Miller:
Well no the plan was to win and then resign the presidency in year 1 or 2 to Kamala Harris which would’ve been infinitely worse and the one thing again none of these people are talking about.”
Nonsense. Dr. Jill would never have allowed him to resign. The only way she would have given up her Vogue covers was if he was rolled out in a body bag.
you are on to something. It’s a very rare club to be a widow of sitting POTUS. Jill wanted to be Jackie 2.0?
I thought something like this would happen, but during the FIRST term.
This is where the Communists outsmarted themselves. You can bet your overtaxed dollar that they were pumping Biden* full of some powerful drug cocktail to keep him upright and at least (semi) coherent. From the Communists’ point of view they would have been better off to have just hidden him in the basement again from 2021-2024 and let Nature take it’s course (with only an occasional pre-recorded video as proof he was still breathing). If Biden* croaked during that period, so much the better – for the Communists, that is – since they could install Kamala to finish the Biden* term.
Not only has the Democrat Party adopted many of the Soviet Union’s policies, they even treat their fading geriatric leaders the same!
“Threat to Democracy” = Threat to Democrat Party perpetual rule
There is not, and never has been, anything Democratic about the Democrat Party.
Yet the lectures (projection) about threats to democracy and the like will not cease from frauds and pretenders, even at LI.
It seems to me Donald Trump holds impromptu press meetings twice a day. It would be interesting to compare the number of press meetings Joe Biden held in four years versus the number of press meetings Donal Trump has held in four months.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/04/biden-media-interviews-press-data
Biden did far less than the previous 7 Presidents over their terms in office. You can extrapolate the numbers and come up with about 1/3rd of what Trump did but that would not be the real story. The real story is how many Biden did in the last year as they struggled to hide his dementia and why the corporate press seemed uninterested in asking why.
Biden Aides Planned Second Term Where They Only Needed to Sometimes Show ‘Proof of Life’
Dollars to donuts, Kamala wouldn’t be smart enough to know she could spring the 25th amendment at any time and become president.
Possibly. I suspect the real issue was that she was too lazy to try. Consider that she nearly had everything she wanted without having to lift a finger. Why organize Biden’s cabinet against him when she can just wait for him to croak and/or pass the POTUS baton to her? Organizing takes like… work. You have to make arguments. And persuade people. With sentences that make a compelling case. And you have to do it over and over again to multiple people. That’s just too much. Much better to just wait him out and have the top job handed to you by the same people who put you in the #2 spot.