Ex-Obama Aide Concedes He Didn’t Want to Criticize Biden Publicly Because ‘I Wanted Him to F*cking Win’

Jon Stewart spoke to Pod Save America co-hosts Jon Lovett and Jon Favreau on the most recent episode of his The Weekly Show. The trio spoke about the recent failings of the Democratic Party, and at one point, Lovett offered a candidate concession on why he didn’t want to hammer then-President Joe Biden over his apparent physical decline.

“I remember feeling I want to talk about this as a huge liability,” began Lovett, a former aide to ex-President Barack Obama. He added:

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.’ A, because I didn’t know exactly what was going on behind the scenes, but be if Joe Biden is the candidate, I want him to fucking win.

Because I care about the country and  I don’t want to be somebody suddenly 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 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.

Former President Biden’s health and mental fitness to be president has been a hot topic in recent weeks as CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson promote their new book, reporting concerns about Biden’s decline and alleging a cover-up inside the administration to keep it hidden.

Watch the clip above.