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One twelvemonth aft nan disastrous statement capacity that forced erstwhile President Joe Biden to yet suspend his re-election campaign, questions stay astir nan oft-alleged "cover-up" of his cognitive decline.
In a wide-ranging exclusive question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, Lindy Li, a erstwhile Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser and National Finance Committee member, elaborate her front-row spot to nan observant coordination by Biden's soul circle to conceal really nan octogenarian's property impacted his presidency.
Biden Cabinet members' testimonies to nan House Oversight Committee and journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson successful their book, "Original Sin," person raised much questions astir what precisely happened during Biden's tenure.
"I was banned from nan Biden White House for telling nan truth erstwhile it mattered," Li told Fox News Digital. "I really took a risk. Jake Tapper wrote a book and decided to show nan truth and person his Eureka infinitesimal aft it was safe, aft Biden had gone to pasture. There was thing connected nan statement for him."
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President Joe Biden sits successful nan Oval Office of nan White House connected Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Tapper did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
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The erstwhile Democrat, who said she has faced nan wrath of her erstwhile friends and colleagues since she near nan party, explained that she had been raising her concerns astir Biden's property for years.
According to Li, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told her successful 2022 that Biden was excessively aged to tally for re-election. One twelvemonth later, she caught a glimpse of Duckworth "singing Biden's praises" connected TV.
"That time was erstwhile she decided to go his run co-chair," Li said. "A afloat twelvemonth later, he's not getting immoderate younger."
Duckworth did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
While Democrats for illustration Duckworth seemed to yet judge Biden's determination to tally for re-election, Li said she continued speaking retired – and it costs her.
"To beryllium treated for illustration a complete criminal was conscionable jarring for me," Li said. "I conscionable asked a mobility too. I wasn't attacking anybody. I conscionable [asked] if possibly he should measurement down, successful nan nicest measurement possible."

Lindy Li, a well-known fundraiser who raised money for nan Democrats' 2024 statesmanlike campaign, announced her exit from nan statement successful December. (Fox News Digital)
Li said she was posing these questions to apical officials astatine nan DNC, including erstwhile chair Jaime Harrison and existent chair Ken Martin. The DNC did not respond to aggregate Fox News Digital inquiries astir her allegations.
"We were fixed talking points," Li said. "Every clip they opportunity they're not paying attention, aliases they didn't return thing seriously, they paid attention, and they took it seriously."
But going against nan Democratic Party came astatine a individual sacrifice, Li explained to Fox News Digital.
"I hosted [Biden] and Kamala Harris connected Feb. 3, coinciding pinch nan DNC Winter Meeting, and they confiscated my phone," Li said.
She said a DNC conjugation head singled her retired astatine nan arena and told her not to station thing connected societal media. When she posted an Instagram communicative of Biden astatine a abstracted meal event, Li said she was shocked erstwhile nan DNC called her "in a fresh of fury" and told her to return it down.
"It was difficult for maine because I was 1 of nan youngest members connected nan committee, if not nan youngest, truthful I didn't person nan property aliases nan gravitas," Li said. "I conscionable don't deliberation they listened."
She added that nan alleged cover-up was a "left-wing monolithic conspiracy" that included handpicked talking points from nan DNC and nan White House.

Former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, left, and existent Chair Ken Martin stock a infinitesimal connected shape astatine nan 2025 DNC Winter Meeting. (AP Photo)
"It encompassed not conscionable nan White House, but each nan influencers they had connected their payroll. Do not show maine they didn't person influencers connected their payroll because they virtually paid me," Li said.
After Special Counsel Robert Hur did not urge criminal charges against Biden successful his classified documents case, arsenic Hur referred to Biden arsenic "a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged man pinch a mediocre memory," Li said nan DNC told her to "tar and feather" Hur's character.
"They were successful harm power mode. We were fundamentally expected to opportunity [Biden] was a genius, successful not truthful galore words, but fundamentally he is for illustration this wizard down closed doors, and really pinch property comes wisdom."
"We were expected to undermine his character," Li added astir Hur. "Yeah, we were expected to assassinate his character."
And aft Biden's consequential statement performance, Li said, "Jen O'Malley Dillon did a harm power briefing that morning, and group were misty-eyed. The erstwhile night, group were crying connected a shuttle location because they were truthful devastated by nan debate."
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But O'Malley Dillon and Julie Rodriguez, Biden's run chairs, claimed it was "impossible" for Biden to driblet retired of nan race, arguing that finance regulations forestall that. History, of course, tells a different story.
When reached for remark astir her allegations, a erstwhile Biden charismatic quipped, "Who is Lindy Li?"
Deirdre Heavey is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital.