Ex-Obama aide and “Pod Save America” co-host Jon Lovett admitted on Jon Stewart’s “The Weekly Show” podcast that he withheld his considerations about President Joe Biden’s bodily decline throughout the 2024 marketing campaign.
Lovett informed Stewart and his fellow “Pod Save America” host Jon Favreau that he didn’t need to publicly voice his concern over Biden’s declining well being as a result of he needed him “to f—— win.”
“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 mentioned on the podcast. “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—— win.”
Lovett mentioned he was apprehensive that expressing his considerations could be weaponized towards Biden by political opponents.
He claimed he saved his considerations to himself to keep away from “having the words we’re saying taken out of context and all of a 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.”
“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,” Lovett claimed.
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson have lately drawn consideration to Biden’s well being whereas selling their new ebook, “Original Sin,” which lined the previous president’s decline and the alleged cover-up by his administration to maintain it beneath wraps.
Lovett is featured in “Original Sin” in an anecdote the place he and his “Pod Save America” co-hosts Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer met with Biden on the White Home on April 26, 2024. The ebook described them as “deeply disturbed” after their discussions with Biden that evening, with the authors describing the president as rambling and “incoherent.”
