From 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.
“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.
When confronted about a potential bonus, Donilon stammered around and finally admitted that he would have received a $4 million bonus on the condition “that Joe Biden would have been re-elected president of the United States.”
This was in addition to the $4 million he was already earning.
“Do you think that the prospect of a significant payday, say $4 million, could impact someone’s judgment in general?” Donilon was asked.
He replied, “Well, I think under the circumstances you’re discussing, the incentive was to keep the president in the race. I, at the end, gave him the judgment that he should withdraw.”
Axios had reported on the promise of the $4 million bonus Donilon had admitted to back in July, but the video of the exchange was just released by the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday.
WATCH the stunning clip below:
A top Biden aide would have earned a $4 MILLION bonus if Joe Biden had been re-elected.
This is why so many on Team Biden repeatedly lied to the American people about Biden’s decline.
They should be ashamed. pic.twitter.com/aWZ1ckQdwR
— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) October 28, 2025
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