by Elizabeth Elkind at Fox News
A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that he stood to gain up to $8 million if the Democratic leader won re-election in 2024, newly released video shows.
Michael Donilon served as senior advisor to the president for the entirety of Biden’s four-year term. Their relationship goes back decades, however. Donilon first worked for Biden in 1981 when he was a U.S. senator from Delaware.
He is one of 14 ex-Biden administration officials to sit down with the House Oversight Committee behind closed doors in its probe into whether the former president’s inner circle covered up evidence of his alleged mental decline and whether executive actions were signed via autopen without Biden’s full awareness.
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Joe Biden and Mike Donilon split image – Longtime Biden confidante Mike Donilon was among the people interviewed in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into former President Joe Biden. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Oversight Committee GOP)
“My sense is that, in my view, the money was, that it was a guarantee in the campaign that we’d had a negotiation, and that’s my memory of the agreement,” Donilon said in the video when asked if his pay would have changed depending on how Biden fared in the election.
Donilon was then asked whether there were any circumstances under which…
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