{"id":3841,"date":"2025-11-22T21:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:19:29","slug":"biden-aide-admits-4-million-bonus-tied-to-2024-win-fueling-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=3841","title":{"rendered":"Biden Aide Admits $4 Million Bonus Tied to 2024 Win, Fueling Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A senior aide to former President Joe Biden admitted under oath that he had a direct financial incentive to hide Biden\u2019s worsening cognitive health during the 2024 campaign, as revealed by a bombshell video released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The footage, part of a closed-door deposition made public by Chairman James Comer (R-KY), shows longtime Biden adviser Mike Donilon squirming and pausing repeatedly before acknowledging that he was promised a $4 million bonus if Biden had won reelection \u2014 in addition to an already-lucrative $4 million base salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exchange, which unfolded during the committee\u2019s investigation into what lawmakers call the \u201cautopen scandal,\u201d appears to confirm what several whistleblowers had previously alleged: that senior staff members were financially motivated to conceal the president\u2019s physical and mental decline from voters, donors, and even some Cabinet officials during the 2024 election cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWould you have received a bonus depending on the way the campaign went?\u201d a congressional investigator asked Donilon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donilon hesitated before replying: \u201cYes, there was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd what were those circumstances?\u201d the investigator pressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat Joe Biden would have been reelected President of the United States,\u201d Donilon finally said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat would the bonus have been?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUm, I believe it would have been $4 million,\u201d Donilon confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GREED: Democrats were funneled campaign cash to look the other way &amp; coverup Biden\u2019s decline. Sworn testimony from close \u2018advisor\u2019 Mike Donilon reveals he was paid $4M upfront with a $4M bonus if Biden was reelected. Biden\u2019s presidency wasn\u2019t just about power, but also greed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/20r0k76EdP\">pic.twitter.com\/20r0k76EdP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; @amuse (@amuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amuse\/status\/1983488164204556434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The revelation has triggered new calls from House Republicans for the Justice Department to expand its ongoing probe into financial impropriety and potential obstruction of oversight related to Biden\u2019s inner circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donilon, one of Biden\u2019s longest-serving strategists, helped craft the president\u2019s public image and was often described as the \u201cemotional center\u201d of the West Wing during the 2020 and 2024 campaigns. Internal records obtained by the Oversight Committee show that he continued to advise the president and coordinate communications strategy even as Biden\u2019s public appearances grew increasingly limited in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman Comer said the interview was \u201ca smoking gun\u201d proving that political operatives close to Biden had strong personal and financial motives to mislead the public about his condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMike Donilon admitted under oath that he stood to make millions if Joe Biden could hold it together long enough to cross the finish line in 2024,\u201d Comer said in a statement. \u201cThat bonus wasn\u2019t about merit \u2014 it was about maintaining the illusion of competence. It\u2019s corruption by incentive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee\u2019s investigation into Biden\u2019s health disclosures and the now-infamous \u201cautopen\u201d controversy \u2014 in which aides allegedly used mechanical signature devices to approve executive orders while Biden was incapacitated \u2014 has unearthed what congressional investigators describe as \u201ca systemic pattern of deceit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple senior aides have reportedly invoked their Fifth Amendment rights, refusing to answer questions about the president\u2019s cognitive state, daily schedule, and medical supervision in the final year of his presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeveral witnesses were unwilling to say when they last saw President Biden conscious and responsive,\u201d a Republican staff memo summarizing the interviews states. \u201cThe culture of silence around his condition was driven by fear \u2014 and, as we now know, by money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats on the committee dismissed the video as \u201cselectively edited\u201d and politically motivated, but even some former Biden allies privately conceded that the optics are disastrous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt looks terrible,\u201d one Democratic strategist told Politico on Tuesday. \u201cThe fact that they were offering multimillion-dollar incentives to keep him on the ticket when everyone knew what was going on \u2014 that\u2019s indefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the committee, Donilon\u2019s employment contract was negotiated directly through the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee that collected hundreds of millions from Democratic megadonors in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The structure of the bonus, investigators say, tied his compensation explicitly to \u201cthe successful reelection of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u201d \u2014 a clause that they argue incentivized suppression of any damaging information about Biden\u2019s deteriorating condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources familiar with the probe said&nbsp;that other White House aides were also offered performance-based payouts linked to the 2024 campaign\u2019s outcome, though none on the scale of Donilon\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Donilon maintained during the interview that he never \u201clied\u201d about Biden\u2019s health, his testimony appeared to contradict earlier public statements in which he insisted the president was \u201cas sharp and focused as ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior aide to former President Joe Biden admitted under oath that he had a direct financial incentive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}