Former senior Biden adviser Mike Donilon advised the Home Oversight Committee on Thursday that he was paid $4 million engaged on the previous president’s 2024 marketing campaign and was set to obtain a further $4 million if he was reelected, a supply acquainted with the matter advised CNN.
Whereas Donilon’s $4 million wage was first detailed within the ebook “Unique Sin,” the attainable $4 million further payout for a Biden reelection victory was not beforehand recognized.
In his closed-door testimony to the committee Donilon defended former President Joe Biden’s health for workplace amid reviews about his psychological and bodily decline throughout his time within the White Home. “What I noticed, day in and day trip, was a frontrunner who was deeply engaged and in command on vital points, each at dwelling and overseas,” based on a replica of Donilon’s opening assertion obtained by CNN.
Donilon’s testimony to the committee comes because the Republican-led panel has interviewed Biden’s high White Home aides this week as a part of its intensifying investigation into the previous president’s cognitive decline and attainable efforts to hide it from the general public.
“I believed that President Biden was one of the best particular person to steer the nation on the day he took the oath of workplace and I continued to imagine that was true on daily basis he served as President,” Donilon mentioned in his assertion.
CNN has reached out to Donilon for remark.
This week the committee additionally met with former Biden counselor Steve Ricchetti, who referred to as the probe an “unprecedented effort” to intimidate the prior administration
A number of Biden aides have declined to cooperate with the committee’s investigation and invoked their Fifth Modification proper in opposition to self-incrimination after being subpoenaed to seem.
Earlier this month, three Biden aides – White Home doctor Dr. Kevin O’Connor, former assistant to the president and senior adviser to the primary woman Anthony Bernal and former assistant to the president and deputy chief of workers Annie Tomasini – who beforehand served as director of Oval Workplace Operations – pleaded the fifth within the face of questions from the panel.
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