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Chairman Comer didn’t mince words about the implications.
“Mike 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,” Comer said. “That bonus wasn’t about merit — it was about maintaining the illusion of competence. It’s corruption by incentive.”
Donilon, who served as one of Biden’s most trusted political minds since his vice presidency, was described by White House insiders as the “emotional center” of Biden’s operation. Yet internal records obtained by the committee show he continued advising the president and shaping communications strategy even as Biden’s public appearances grew increasingly limited throughout 2023 and 2024.
The deposition is part of a larger congressional investigation into what lawmakers are calling the “autopen scandal” — a shocking claim that White House aides allegedly used mechanical signature devices to authorize executive actions while Biden was unable to do so himself.
According to internal memos reviewed by the committee, this practice wasn’t an isolated incident. Investigators say it points to a coordinated effort to mislead the public about the president’s ability to perform his duties.
A Republican staff report added that “several witnesses were unwilling to say when they last saw President Biden conscious and responsive.” The memo continues, “The culture of silence around his condition was driven by fear — and, as we now know, by money.”
Republican lawmakers are now demanding that the Justice Department expand its investigation into what they describe as “financial corruption and obstruction of oversight” within Biden’s inner circle. Multiple staffers have reportedly invoked their Fifth Amendment rights during questioning, refusing to answer key inquiries about Biden’s health and day-to-day functionality.
The Oversight Committee also obtained documents showing that Donilon’s employment contract was arranged through the Biden Victory Fund, a major fundraising operation that collected hundreds of millions from Democrat megadonors in 2023 and 2024.
The agreement explicitly tied his bonus to “the successful reelection of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.” — a clause that, according to Comer’s team, directly incentivized keeping Biden’s true condition under wraps.
While Democrats on the committee dismissed the footage as “selectively edited,” even party insiders are acknowledging that the optics are devastating.
“It looks terrible,” one Democratic strategist told Politico. “The fact that they were offering multimillion-dollar incentives to keep him on the ticket when everyone knew what was going on — that’s indefensible.”
Sources close to the investigation also revealed that other senior Biden staffers were offered performance-based payouts tied to the 2024 election outcome, though none as lucrative as Donilon’s.
Despite his admission, Donilon insisted he never “lied” about Biden’s health. But that claim clashes sharply with his previous public statements, where he told reporters the president was “as sharp and focused as ever.”
With each new disclosure, Comer’s committee appears to be peeling back another layer of what Republicans are calling a multi-million-dollar cover-up — one that protected Joe Biden’s image while deceiving the American people about who was truly running the country.
