As we all know, Joe Biden was effectively forced from the Democratic Party ticket in the 2024 presidential election.
Now, Biden officials are being called in to testify regarding the former president's mental decline, which was the clear reason that his fellow Democrats wanted him out of the race.
One of Biden’s top campaign officials just commented on how much money that move actually cost him.
Michael Donilon served as senior advisor for Biden’s entire term in office, but he was also professionally attached to Joe Biden for more than four decades, having first worked for the then-Senator in 1981.
Donilon made a whopping $4 million working on Biden’s very short 2024 campaign, and he further stated that had the former president won re-election, he would have been paid a $4 million bonus.
That money bought some significant loyalty, as Donilon covered for Biden throughout his testimony this week, saying that he "believes the punditry and Democrats in Congress overreacted after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate.”
If Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) thought he would get the real dirt on Biden, he was wrong, as Donilon further stated that he thought the former president got better as the term moved forward. He also stated he knew nothing about the autopen scandal.
Biden is finally out and about making some speeches, but he has learned very little after the disastrous 2024 campaign season, as he came out this week firing against Donald Trump, pushing a very tired narrative.
The former president stated, “Not since those tumultuous days in 1960s has this fight been so existential to who we are as a nation, with marginalized groups so dramatically under attack."
He went on, “My friends, we need to face the hard truth of this administration, and that it has been to ease all the gains we’ve made in my administration. To erase history rather than making it. To erase fairness, equality, to erase justice itself. And that’s not hyperbole. That’s a fact.”
Trust me, the moment Biden clarifies that something is not hyperbole, it 100% is hyperbole.
Former Vice President and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris is also back, touting her new book about “the shortest campaign in history,” laying the groundwork for yet another excuse as to why she lost the election.
When Stephen Colbert asked her about why she was not running to become California governor, possibly looking forward to a different office down the road, Harris stated that she needed more time to decide, responding, “Recently, I made the decision that I just, for now, I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken.”
She continued, “I always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles. And I think, right now, that they’re not as strong as they need to be. And I just don’t want to, for now — I don’t want to go back in the system. I want to travel the country. I want to listen to people. I want to talk with people. And I don’t want it to be transactional, where I’m asking for their vote.”
The problem for Harris is that she does not actually listen when people talk to her. Like most Democrats, rather than listening to voters, she talks at them, and that simply does not work. Not only that, but the more people learn about Harris and hear her talk, the less they like her, and I just don’t see that changing by the time the 2028 cycle kicks off.
