The co-author of the new book exposing the decline of former president Joe Biden while in office, and the cover-up by Democrats at the White House to keep it under wraps, said on Fox News Sunday that one top, unelected admin official admitted to doing “undemocratic things” in the name of saving democracy.

Axios reporter Alex Thompson spoke with Fox News host Shannon Bream on Sunday about his new book with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, in which the two veteran journalists exhaustively cover the many ways in which administration officials and top White House aides conspired to hide the president’s decline from both the public and, in some cases, his own cabinet.

Bream brought up a particular passage from the book, saying to Thompson, “you quote a long-time Biden aide, basically admitting he shouldn’t be running again.”

She read aloud the shocking quote attributed to the unnamed aide: “‘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?” she asked.

Thompson said the aide went on to tell them that “when you’re voting for a president, you’re voting for the aides around him,” and noted that they weren’t even Senate-confirmed aides. “These were unelected people,” he said.

“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,” Thompson added. “Which I think is what this person is talking about.

In a separate interview with Tapper and Thompson recently, the two discussed how the cadre of handlers and aides who were “running the White House” were known, both in the building at the time and in the book now, as the “politburo” — which does indeed sound “undemocratic.”

BREAM: In the book, 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?

THOMPSON: 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.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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