Former Democratic Rep Hits Biden’s Fmr Adviser For ‘Cover-Up’

Former Democratic Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips called ex-Biden adviser Mike Donilon one of the “ring leaders” attempting to keep former President Joe Biden in the 2024 race, warning that people like him are only concerned with “self-preservation.”

Before Biden dropped out of the 2024 race in July of that year, Democrats supported the former president, attempting to dismiss concerns from Republicans about his mental fitness. During an interview with Harvard’s Institute of 🏛️Politics on Feb. 13, Donilon said the party had “lost its mind” over Biden’s disastrous debate performance, adding that sometimes people simply have “terrible debates.”

On “The Ingraham Angle,” guest host Kayleigh McEnany asked the former Democratic representative if Biden would “have prevailed” if he had stayed in the race.

“Now Kayleigh, Mr. Donilon, with all due respect, was one of the ring leaders of the cover-up,” Phillips said. “You know that wasn’t just a bad debate. That was a symptom of a president who was reaching the end of his first term not on solid footing and was not going to win that race no matter what and surely could not serve another four years.”

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