Longtime Dem donor rips 'deceiving' Biden, demands he quit race 'immediately'

Whitney Tilson, a longtime Wall Street investor and Democratic donor, has accused Joe Biden of “deceiving the American people” about his mental fitness for office — and is demanding that he “step down immediately” as the party’s 2024 presidential candidate.The 57-year-old money man — who made a bundle during the financial crisis, only to shutter his hedge fund Kase Capital in 2017 — told The Post that Biden should allow a younger rival to take on Trump and save the US “from a four-year nightmare” following his CNN debate debacle last week.“I feel like I have been deceived,” Tilson said.“Biden and the people around him have been deceiving the American people.“The dam has broken.

We all know and we can all see that we were lied to.“I am deliberately calling it a Big Lie because this is as big a lie as Trump’s Big Lie,” he added, referring to the former president’s claims that the 2020 election was rigged.Shortly after speaking with Post, Tilson tweeted a parody video that purports to show Adolf Hitler ranting about Biden’s disastrous debate performance.“We are f*****d,” he is incorrectly translated as saying.The clip, a popular Internet meme, is in fact from the German language film ‘Downfall’ that focuses on the Nazi leader’s final days in Berlin.Tilson said the Democrats should find a replacement and that he would back whoever came out on top.“I hope that Kamala (Harris) throws herself into the horse race, Biden cannot just anoint her,” he told The Post by telephone from Italy.“If she emerges as the first choice then I will support her.”The Wall Street veteran suggested two possible joint tickets that he believes could take on Trump.He said his first choice was New Jersey Senator Cory Booker with ex-Rhode Island governor Gina Raimundo as a vice-presidential pick.Booker “could catch lightning in a bottle in the way Barack Obama did in the run-up to 2008,” Tilson said.He argued that Michigan Governor Gretch...