Kash Patel Investigating BUCKLE UP FOR THIS ONE! Has anyone been paying attention to this whopper? John Podesta. a senior advisor to Joe Biden on clean energy, former White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton (1998–2001) and Counselor to President Barack Obama (2014–2015, has been handling a $375 billion slush fund giving billions to charities that don’t appear in the IRS’s charity database, and has no federal filings, according to the New York Post.