Recent tell-all books about the Biden White House, including one from CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios, have endeavored to reveal the depths to which staffers, family members, and members of the media sunk to deprive the public of the truth about the then-president's true mental and physical condition.
Now, another well-known political insider, namely former Barack Obama adviser Jon Lovett, has stepped forward to reveal why he played a role in the emerging cover-up, blaming what was his consuming desire for a Democratic Party victory over Donald Trump, as Fox News reports.
Having served as an aide in the Obama White House, Lovett went on to assume the role of a co-host on the liberal Pod Save America podcast.
During a recent appearance on Jon Stewart's The Weekly Show podcast, Lovett took pains to offer an explanation as to why he stayed mum about concerns he says he had about Biden's decline while president and amid the 2024 presidential campaign.
According to Lovett, his concerns about Biden were very real, but he believed that the Democratic Party's electoral prospects against Trump were more important than speaking truth to the American people.
“I remember feeling I want to talk about this as a huge liability. To talk about this is something Joe Biden can overcome, but I'm not going to go so far as to say, 'I think Joe Biden must drop out. He is too old to be president,'” Lovett stated.
The reasons for that stance, Lovett added were, “A, because I didn't know exactly what was going on behind the scenes, but B, if Joe Biden is the candidate, I want him to f***ing win.”
In his attempted defense of his lack of candor on the situation, Lovett expressed his fear that coming clean with his audience about what he observed would result in the weaponization of that information by the president's opponent.
Saying quiet, he contended, helped prevent “having the words we're saying taken out of context and all of sudden be part of the case against Joe Biden from the right – that would use any person criticizing Joe Biden from the left as a weapon against him.”
Arguably struggling to reconcile his current admissions and past conduct, Lovett added, “So it was about being honest about Joe Biden's age as a liability while knowing that if he is the nominee, I want to be clear that I thought it was important to make sure we did everything we could to reelect him.”
While the belated -- and often disingenuous -- explanations of the roles played by liberal elites in hiding Biden's true condition from the country have continued to make headlines and fill airtime on cable news networks, a potentially more serious exploration of what went on now appears poised to commence.
House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) announced last week that he sent letters to a series of individuals who served in the Biden White House, requesting that they appear from transcribed interviews on the subject of the former president's decline.
“The cover-up of President Biden's obvious mental decline is a historic scandal. The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf,” Comer wrote. “Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden's diminished capacity," he added.
As such, Comer is seeking testimony from Biden physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor and former White House officials Neera Tanden, Anthony Bernal, Annie Tomasini, and Ashley Williams, and should those individuals decline cooperation with the probe, it remains to be seen whether subpoenas for their appearance will be the next phase in what many Americans believe is a necessary and long overdue probe.
