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Longtime Biden aide testifies he stood to earn up to $8M had president won re-election

Michael Donilon, an advisor to former President Joe Biden, sat down with House Oversight Committee investigators for roughly six hours Thursday.

AlongtimeallyofformerPresidentJoeBidentoldHouseOversightCommitteeinvestigatorsthathecouldhavebeenpaidatotalof$8millioniftheformerpresidentwonhis2024re-electionbid,asourcefamiliarwiththeconversationtoldFoxNewsDigital. MichaelDonilonservedassenioradvisortothepresidentfortheentiretyofBiden’sfour-yearterm.Theirrelationshipgoesbackdecades,however;DonilonfirstworkedforBidenin1981whenhewasaU.S.senatorfromDelaware. Heisthelatestex-Bidenadministrationofficialtositdownwiththecommitteebehindcloseddoorsasitinvestigateswhethertheformerpresident’sinnercirclecoveredupevidenceofhisallegedmentaldecline,andifexecutiveactionsweresignedviaautopenwithoutBiden’sfullawareness. Donilonsaidhedidnotknowwhattheautopenwasusedforanddidnotrecallhavinganyknowledgeoftheautopen,thesourcetoldFoxNewsDigital. COMERDISMISSESBIDENDOCTOR’SBIDFORPAUSEINCOVER-UPPROBE:‘