Ex-Dem insider reveals she will expose Democrats who covered up Biden's cognitive decline in new book

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Lindy Li, a former Democratic fundraiser who switched party affiliation over unheeded warning signs about President Joe Biden ’s decline in the 2024 election, is revealing new details about the red flags the party blew by. "Whatever was out there, it wasn’t the truth. They wanted him to go, and also in my book, I will be telling people exactly who was aware of Biden’s cognitive decline but pretended otherwise," Li told Fox News Digital during a phone interview. Li, who is publishing a new book titled "Unburdened" later this year, adds to the picture of the internal discussions, the research, and the panic behind the scenes of the Democratic Party, indicating that Biden enjoyed only shaky support even among his own camp long before he ultimately dropped out of the 2024 election. Above all, Li said she was shocked by some of the party's leading figures who expressed reservations behind the scenes about Biden’s decline, but remained staunch defenders of the president in public. BIDEN'S INNER CIRCLE LIVED IN 'STUNNING' DENIAL ABOUT HIS DECLINE, SAYS AUTHOR WHO INTERVIEWED TOP AIDE "I remember getting a text from Schiff," Li said, referring to Adam Schiff, D-Calif., then a Democratic candidate for Senate and top Democrat in the House of Representatives. "I have it in my book. Basically, Adam Schiff was — I can’t remember what he said on TV, but I’m telling you right now that behind the scenes he very much wanted [Biden] to go." A spokesperson for Schiff responded to Li's claims, noting that the Senator had made his doubts about Biden known publicly after a 2024 debate where the president stumbled over his words, lost his train of thought and spoke in a whispery voice that, at times, was difficult to understand. He eventually called for Biden to step aside that July "The Senator’s concerns and call on President Biden to not run was very public, so none of this is news," the spokesperson said. But even beyond Schiff, Li, who ran a formidable fundraising operation for the…