NEW: President Joe Biden confirms he was pushed out of the race by top Democrats who apparently staged a coup on him.
“But what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the house and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in the races.”
The statement coincides… pic.twitter.com/jyifuqG4KC
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 11, 2024
President Joe Biden confirms he was pushed out of the race by top Democrats who apparently staged a coup on him.
“But what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the house and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in the races.”
The statement coincides with what journalist Seymour Hersh suggested when he reported that Barack Obama threatened Biden with the 25th Amendment, saying he had “Kamala’s approval” to force him out of the race.
Hersh said Obama was “deeply involved” with the alleged coup and called Biden after his “incident” in Las Vegas.
“I went over [reports] this week with a senior official in Washington who helped me fashion an account of a White House in complete disarray,” Hersh said.
“Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment,'” a senior Washington official told Hersh.
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries were reportedly directly involved.