Ex-Biden aide admitted to potential $4 million bonus for 2024 White Home win

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A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that he stood to achieve as much as $8 million if the Democrat chief gained re-election in 2024, newly launched video reveals.

Michael Donilon served as senior advisor to the president for the whole lot of Biden's four-year time period. Their relationship goes again many years, nonetheless. Donilon first labored for Biden in 1981 when he was a U.S. senator from Delaware.

He's certainly one of 14 ex-Biden administration officers to sit down down with the Home Oversight Committee behind closed doorways in its probe into whether or not the previous president's internal circle lined up proof of his alleged psychological decline and whether or not govt actions had been signed through autopen with out Biden's full consciousness.

"My sense is that, for my part, the cash was, that it was a assure within the marketing campaign that we would had a negotiation, and that is my reminiscence of the settlement," Donilon mentioned within the video when requested if his pay would have modified relying on how Biden fared within the election.

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Longtime Biden confidante Mike Donilon was among the many individuals interviewed within the Home Oversight Committee's investigation into former President Joe Biden. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs; Oversight Committee GOP)

Donilon was then requested whether or not there have been any circumstances beneath which he would have acquired a bonus, to which he acknowledged there was.

"What had been these circumstances?" Home Oversight Committee workers requested.

Donilon mentioned, "That Joe Biden would have been re-elected President of america."

That sum would have been $4 million , Donilon acknowledged, along with the $4 million he was already paid.

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Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee, throughout a listening to in Washington, March 20, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

He defended it as "truthful settlement" when requested if he believed it was a major sum of cash.

Donilon was then requested, "Do you assume that the prospect of a major payday, say $4 million, may impression somebody's judgment normally?"

"Effectively, I feel beneath the circumstances you are discussing, the motivation was to maintain the president within the race. I, on the finish, gave him the judgment that he ought to withdraw," Donilon responded.

The Home Oversight Committee launched video of Donilon's interview and others on the heels of its closing report into Biden's autopen use.

The GOP-led report accused Biden's internal circle of actively conspiring to maintain indicators of diminishing psychological acuity from the American public up till when he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.

Former President Joe Biden speaks at a information convention on the ultimate day of the NATO summit in Washington, July 11, 2024. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photograph)

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Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., heaped doubt on whether or not Biden really signed off on all of his govt actions the place autopen was used — particularly, the 1000's of clemency orders he approved throughout his time period.

Comer mentioned Biden's autopen-authorized actions needs to be thought of "void" and referred to as on the Division of Justice (DOJ) to assessment the matter.

A Biden spokesperson criticized the probe, nonetheless, telling Fox Information Digital, "This investigation into baseless claims has confirmed what has been clear from the beginning: President Biden made the choices of his presidency. There was no conspiracy, no cover-up, and no wrongdoing. Congressional Republicans ought to cease specializing in political retribution and as a substitute work to finish the federal government shutdown."

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital main protection of the Home of Representatives. Earlier digital bylines seen at Every day Mail and CBS Information.