A former top aide to former President Biden’s 2020 campaign declared she felt “lied to” over bombshell revelations that Biden was “fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged” in the days leading up to Biden’s disastrous performance in the June presidential debate, where he squared off against Donald Trump.

Ashley Allison, who served as a senior official on the Biden-Harris campaign, voiced her fury on CNN Wednesday, following the release of excerpts from journalist Chris Whipple’s forthcoming book. The most damning of those excerpts includes testimony from former Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who reportedly said he was “startled” by Biden’s exhaustion and that the president seemed “out of it.”

“Do you feel lied to?” host Abby Phillip asked.

“Yes,” Allison responded. “If the people around him knew that he was not capable, it is unacceptable to me that they allowed him to go onto that stage. I deserve better as a voter — not even as a Democrat — as a voter and as an American. I do.”

According to Whipple, Klain confessed Biden had veered dramatically off course during debate prep — wandering away to nap by the pool before the highest-stakes moment of his re-election campaign.

On CNN NewsNight, Phillip turned to Biden ally and The View co-host Ana Navarro, pressing her on the shocking account.

“This is the middle of debate prep,” Phillip said. “He took a nap by the pool. This isn’t even governing — this is just campaigning. The right decision, it seems pretty unequivocally, is that he should not have run for reelection.”

Navarro, who maintains a personal relationship with Biden, tried to walk a fine line — defending her longtime friend while conceding something was clearly wrong that day.

“I’ve known Joe Biden for over 25 years. The Joe Biden today is not the Joe Biden of 5, 10, 20 years ago,” she admitted. “But something happened in those days around the debate that was not the case the day after. He was a completely different person.”

Navarro said she had been in contact with Klain, who, she claimed, told her his comments were “taken out of context.” But her defense did little to quell the growing chorus of alarm.

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton didn’t mince words: “This was a cover-up.”

Even Allison, who once helped carry Biden to victory, couldn’t disagree.

“The night of the debate was terrifying,” she said. “It hurt my heart, but it was very clear that might not have been the first time this happened. And I find that unacceptable. I would find that unacceptable in a Trump administration. I would find that unacceptable in an Obama administration. And I find it unacceptable now.”

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)