Biden donors 'freaked out' by his reliance on teleprompters at private fundraisers

President Biden is facing intense scrutiny over his apparent reliance on teleprompters in closed-door meetings with Democratic donors in the fallout of last week's presidential debate.

MSNBC political analyst John Heilemann revealed on his "Impolitic" podcast that donors are "freaked out" that Biden can't go off script during their private fundraisers.

"One of the things, to go back to my various donor friends, something that in, of course, the last six months, has come up a bunch of times with donors who have had Joe Biden at their house, they are all freaked out by one thing that you guys will understand. He shows up- and it's a group of people, the friendliest people you can imagine, they're all writing him big checks. He speaks for about 15 minutes on prompter at every little dinner event," Heilemann said on Friday's podcast.

"He never ad-libs. He's never just off prompter… I mean, you're sitting with a bunch of, like, 40 multimillionaires who are writing you giant checks. You have 15 minutes of remarks to give over dinner, and you're on prompter. Again, does that make him a bad president? No. Does that make him unfit to be president? No. Does it freak donors out that he needs to be on prompter? It freaks them out," he said.

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"This was an hour and a half off prompter, that's what it looks like right now. And he got better as the debate went on, but in its worst moments, it was like, that's why they keep him on prompter. And that is not an issue that's gonna go away," Heilemann added.

That explosive claim was confirmed the next day by Anthony Scaramucci, former President Trump's short-lived White House communications