A former official with the former Democratic National Committee confirmed what many people previously thought about Joe Biden’s presidency—that it was a “third term” for former President Obama.
Former DNC fundraiser Lindy Li revealed details about the situation during an appearance on the “Shawn Ryan Show.”
“A lot of people say it was Obama’s third term. There’s rumors of… And these aren’t even… These are friends of mine that are moderate Democrats, say that they thought it was Elizabeth Warren running it. They thought it was Bernie Sanders running it,” the host said. “But I think the general consensus, I think if you asked the majority of the population, they think it was Obama’s third term.”
“It was for sure Obama’s third term. I don’t think that’s even a question,” Li responded.
“That’s why you saw Obama fighting for his dear life. Why was he fighting so hard in the fall? Because he was fighting for his fourth term. He was fighting for his own legacy,” she said as she juxtaposed the relationship between Biden and Obama with that of Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy.
“JFK had little respect for Lyndon B. Johnson, but he picked him anyway because he wanted to win the South. He wanted to win Texas. But he had very little respect for LBJ’s intellect. JFK was surrounded by his Harvard Braintrust, and he had immense disdain for LBJ’s Texas Hill country vibe,” the former operative explained.
“That was the same attitude that Obama had towards Biden. Obama thought that Biden would eventually f–k everything up. That’s eventually actually what happened. But also, he didn’t have much faith in Kamala Harris,” Li said of Obama’s attitude towards Biden.
“Before she ascended to the top role, [Obama] was vetting people like [Arizona Democratic Sen.] Mark Kelly and [Kentucky Gov.] Andy Beshear. Most people, most party chieftains, didn’t have Kamala Harris as their number one choice. But in the party of DEI, you can’t skip a black woman. The optics would have been terrible,” she added.
She said some of the people who ran the United States during the Biden presidency included his personal attorneys and senior advisors Steve Ricchetti, Anita Dunn, and Mike Donilon.
Li said that others at the helm were Biden’s former chief of staff, Ron Klane, as well as aides Jeff Zients and Bob Bauer.
She even aimed at Harris, who she said paid celebrities to endorse her during her campaign against President Donald Trump.
“Despite her repeated denials, Beyoncé was paid,” Li said.
“Cardi B, who famously said she wasn’t paid. Her production company was paid to show up,” she said. “Katy Perry was paid. Christina Aguilera was paid. Oprah wasn’t paid a million. She was paid $2 million. $2 million to Harpo Productions.”
In November, Li told “Fox & Friends Weekend” this month that top campaign officials “misled” her and others and that the overall effort by the vice president was an “epic disaster.”
Lindy Li, who said she raised “millions” for Harris, explained to co-host Will Cain that Harris’s campaign officials made a series of false promises and repeatedly claimed that the internal data showed the vice president would handily defeat Trump.
“This is just an epic disaster. This is a one-billion-dollar disaster,” Li said, referencing how the losing Harris campaign blew through $1 billion in fundraising and ended up with millions of dollars in debt.
“It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have friends that I have to be accountable to and to explain what happened because I told them it was a margin of error race,” she added.
Li stated that Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon assured all Harris surrogates that the vice president would win, even going so far as to produce videos to reinforce the message. “I believed her. My daughters believed her. And so, they wrote massive checks,” Li told the Fox News co-host. “I feel like a lot of us were misled.”
