A new report claims President Joe Biden was “blackmailed” into announcing his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race after top Democrats threatened to use the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Politics, wrote, “Biden was blackmailed into dropping out of the race after top democrats threatened to remove him from office with the 25th Amendment according to the New York Post. It’s becoming clear that the coup was a well-orchestrated plan by Democrats.”
Rugg claimed that Biden’s disastrous performance at CNN’s presidential debate in June appears to have been a “setup” intended to allow Democrats to remove Biden and choose an alternative candidate ahead of the November election.
An anonymous Democrat familiar with the private conversations of the Democratic Party’s leaders told Politico that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threatened to forcibly remove Biden from the race.
“Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way,” the anonymous Democrat said. “She gave them three weeks of the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.”
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In his post on social media, Rugg said the hard way “appears to have been the 25th Amendment.” He also pointed out that Biden’s own staff members were not aware of the president’s decision to drop out of the race until his digitally signed letter was shared on X.
“But did this plan go back even further? In 2020, Pelosi unveiled legislation that would allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to remove the president,” Rugg wrote alongside a video of Pelosi discussing legislation intended to make it easier for Congress to intervene if a president was not able to fulfill their responsibilities. “She assured the public at the time that the legislation was not for Trump.”
A source close to the Biden family told The New York Post that as Biden refused to listen to the demand of Democrats for him to drop out of the 2024 election, top Democrats threatened to use the 25th Amendment against him. By using the 25th Amendment, Vice President Kamala Harris and members of Biden’s cabinet could have declared him unfit to serve as president and forced him to step down from office.
The source said that following the disastrous debate in June, Hunter Biden became increasingly involved in his father’s business and began attending every meeting.
“Hunter felt he [Joe Biden] was being set up and he was very concerned about his father,” the source told The New York Post. “These people, these officials were not on Joe’s side.”
