If there was any remaining doubt that the Biden White House was being run by more than just the president himself, Original Sin has cleared the air — and filled it with smoke. In a stunning interview on FOX News Sunday, Shannon Bream pressed journalist Alex Thompson on one of the most jaw-dropping revelations from his new book: the second-term Biden plan wasn’t really about Joe Biden governing at all. It was about getting him re-elected, then letting him vanish — a presidency in name only.
As Bream read the passage aloud — “‘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.’” — the gravity of what was being admitted hit like a thunderclap. This wasn’t idle speculation. This was a long-time Biden aide speaking on the record.
The plan wasn’t about leadership. It was about optics.
Thompson didn’t mince words in his response. “These aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides,” he noted. “These were unelected people.”
That’s the heart of the issue. The presidency — the most powerful office in the free world — was being quietly delegated to a circle of insiders who the American people never voted for, never vetted, and never knew. These weren’t Cabinet members subjected to hearings or accountability. These were White House staffers, operating behind closed doors, propping up an increasingly absent commander-in-chief.
And if Biden had won a second term, these same aides were fully prepared to run the entire executive branch while the president made only sporadic, choreographed appearances — the political equivalent of weekend-at-Bernie’s governance.
Perhaps the most chilling moment came when Thompson elaborated on the mindset driving this strategy: “If you believe… that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy, you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things.”
Think about that.
The very people who claimed they were saving democracy were planning to subvert it from within — justifying it under the banner of a greater good. That rationale — “we must save democracy by ignoring its rules” — isn’t heroic. It’s authoritarian.
It’s also a betrayal of the basic principle that elected leaders, not unelected handlers, are supposed to wield power in a constitutional republic.
This revelation doesn’t just taint Biden’s legacy. It sets a precedent that should alarm Americans of all political stripes. If a president’s inner circle can hide his incapacity and quietly take over the government without disclosure or consent, then the line between republic and oligarchy has already been crossed.
And the silence from the people allegedly involved — Ron Klain, Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed — is deafening. Not one denial. Not one correction. Just a quiet retreat into the shadows as the truth comes out in waves.
