Top DNC official claims his party spent $2 billion trying to trick Americans into ‘not believing their eyes’

David Hogg’s disdain for his own party found him slamming Democrats for the 10-figure cost in attempting to get Americans “not to believe their eyes and their wallets.”

Embodying the leadership vacuum within the Democratic Party, the activist and failed pillow entrepreneur had succeeded in getting himself named as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. Adding to the antagonism as he gnawed on the hand feeding him, Hogg’s pursuit of a personal agenda found him blasting the party for spending $2 billion to gaslight over then-President Joe Biden’s record.

Joining HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” for an interview Friday, the vice chair told the host, “People said to us that ‘Joe Biden is too old,’ and they said that ‘prices are too high.’ And we said, with the power of $2 billion behind us, ‘No he’s not,’ then, ‘Yes he is,’ and then, ‘No, they aren’t. Look at this graph of the stock market.”

“If you tell people not to believe their eyes and their wallets, you’re gonna lose them,” he added to the comedian.

Bill Maher asks David Hogg why voters continue to reject the Democrat party:
Bill Maher: “But people know that this is what the Democrats are better at. They still didn’t vote for them. It was more the woke stuff. Wasn’t the strategy that Trump employed?”
David Hogg: “People felt… pic.twitter.com/zFEvJ8qoNN

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) May 10, 2025

“I think the reason that worked though, Bill, is because people felt like they weren’t heard by us,” he told Bill Maher after the host contended woke policies had turned voters away. The host specifically brought up the success of Trump’s campaign advertisement against then-Vice President Kamala Harris, “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”

In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, Democrats have shown themselves jockeying for position as it remained anyone’s guess who might be propelled to the top come the 2028 election cycle.

Meanwhile, corporate media’s feigned mea culpa reached its latest stage in revisionist history about coverage of Biden’s cognitive decline — not so much his crippling economic policies — with talking heads identifying as journalists faulting the White House for a cover-up. Similarly, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki maintained she’d never seen Biden like he was during his disastrous debate and argued, “Aging happens quite quickly.”

“‘Cover-up’ is a very loaded term. People use that term as related to Watergate,” Psaki had said during an interview with Semafor. “Or the covering up of not sharing public information about a war. I think it’s a bit of a dangerous term.”

To Hogg’s point, Biden himself had sat down for his first broadcast interview last week and continued to argue that Harris’ loss was not a referendum on the Biden-Harris administration.

“Um, and what happened was, I had become what we set out to do, no one thought we could do and become so successful,” he told the BBC. “Our agenda was hard to say, now I’m going to stop now. I meant what I said when I started, that I think it’s, I’m prepared to hand this to the next generation, the transition government.”

Not long after taking his new role as DNC vice chair, Hogg earned the ire of the organization by raising millions toward a personal objective to primary incumbent Democrats in Congress whom he believed were “ineffective” in advancing the party’s agenda, prompting a rule change proposal from the DNC to require primary neutrality.

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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