A young lady by the name of Lindy Li defected from the Democratic Party late last year and the mainstream media seemingly as avoided her story like the plague as it was not a good loss for our legacy left leaning media. This previously prominent Democratic National Committee (DNC) powerhouse fundraiser announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party, which she referred to as a “cult,” after facing an onslaught of attacks for criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris after her loss.
Li became the further target of the left’s attacks when she expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. But it was the party’s vitriolic response to a subsequent appearance on Fox News that pushed her rightward, for good she said after an appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
“This Saturday, I went on ‘Fox & Friends’ and I said ‘Democrats have a stench of loser hanging over them.’ As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me. Unblock, unfollow campaigns.”
This past week podcaster Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talked to Lindy Li about secretive things going on in the White House out of the public eye, and those things were numerous!
By now, many Americans have been pondering aloud, “If Joe Biden was such a senile ole dementia vegetable while president, who was really running our country?” Of course many speculated names of both George Soros (due to our suddenly open borders) and Barack Obama (since Biden had been his vice president before).
While there is still no doubt these two did have influence in the Biden White House, Lindy Li came to the Rubin interview with plenty of new insider information which was most revealing.
“I can’t stress enough how high up Anita Dunn was. She was basically part of the council presidents. We didn’t have a president, we had a council, of these unelected people, that you’ve never even heard of, and they’re Anita Dunn , Mike Donilon, and Steve Ricchetti. Three of them were running the country. Most Americans would say, maybe like 1% if that, have heard of them.”
So this statement by Li triggered us to look into the backgrounds of these three people she mentioned and this is what we found from a variety of sources starting with Wikipedia.
Anita Dunn – is an American political strategist who began her career in politics as an intern in the Jimmy Carter White House. She has worked on six presidential campaigns over a period of 40 years; Dukakis, Kerry, W. Clinton, Obama, H. Clinton, and Biden.
Insiders have said Dunn’s White House roles center around messaging, political strategies, oversight, and crisis communication on the key issues. She is reported to have had to act on the strategies and agendas the president assigned to her portfolio. She is said to have been a liaison with Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, outside groups/lobbyists, and prospective candidates.
Interestingly, not much is found about her political beliefs and leanings so one can only assume she would have been groomed by all of those Democrat presidents she worked for.
Mike Donilon – is an American attorney and campaign consultant who has been a longtime advisor to Joe Biden as both a senator and president. He was the chief strategist of Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and served in the same capacity in the 2024 presidential campaign before Biden dropped out. He was a senior advisor to Biden during the first three years of his presidency. From 2009 to 2013, he served as Counselor to Vice President Biden in the Obama administration. Before his White House appointment, Donilon worked with the vice-presidential candidate to help him prepare for the debates and as a traveling advisor.
Prior to his relationship with Joe Biden, Donilon helped get a large number of Democrat Senators elected to office as well as Bill Clinton’s successful run for the White House in 1992. Donilon goes way back with Joe Biden when he was a Senator. He has been an advisor and consultant to Biden since 1981.
Again, interestingly, not much is found about his own personal political beliefs or leanings but a Washington Post article once did describe him as Biden’s “conscience, alter ego and shared brain.” One staffer quoted in that article said he estimated Biden turned to Donilon about 10,000 times during his political career asking, “Mike, what do you think?” The bond shred between these two men seems to be their Irish roots.
Steve Ricchetti is an American attorney and political aide who served as Counselor to president Joe Biden. He was the chairman of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. Ricchetti served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden during the Obama administration as well as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Bill Clinton. Most of the rest of his time spent in Washington D.C. has been working in the private sector as a lobbyist.
Prior to working for Biden he received his undergraduate degree from Miami University in Ohio in 1979, and his Juris Doctor from the George Mason University School of Law. From there his career really seemed to take off with two of his early jobs being with Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Insurance) Association’s political department from 1987 to 1989 and as executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 1990 to 1992.
Again, interestingly, not much is found about Ricchetti’s own personal political beliefs or leanings.
CONCLUSION:
It is interesting the level of stupid we see in today’s Democratic leaders. Take Minnesota Governor and 2024 Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Walz recently:
“Tim Walz calls for ‘shadow government’ to counter Trump admin; son dunks on former veep nominee” – Fox News
So it appears Walz said the quiet part out loud for us, so thank God we have this “knucklehead” for a brief moment of honesty from the Democrats.
It appears we have had a “Shadow Government” in the White House the last 4 years if we believe Lindy Li.
I am not sure which Americans will find more scary… two people like Soros and Obama where we actually do know where they stand politically (globalism and Marxism), or the three people Lindy Li outed above where we know very little about where they stand politically.
© 2025 by Mark S. Schwendau
