The GOP-led House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed three senior White House aides, demanding that they sit for depositions regarding President Biden’s mental state.
Fox News confirmed that the subpoena contains first woman Jill Biden’s top aide, Anthony Bernal, deputy chief of workers Annie Tomasini and senior adviser Ashley Williams.
In a press launch, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., known as for accountability throughout the White House.
“The White House has shielded three key aides from testifying about President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, and now we’ve learned through reporting these same aides are also seeking to cover up President Biden’s declining cognitive state inside the White House,” Comer mentioned.
“President Biden is clearly unfit for office, yet his staff are trying to hide the truth from the American people,” he mentioned.
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding that White House aides sit for depositions about President Biden’s mental state. (Getty Images)
The GOP-led committee argued that the top Biden aides had been “running interference” for Biden to defend the 81-year-old president from dealing with scrutiny.
According to 1 former Biden staffer, Axios first reported, Bernal, Tomasini and Williams have created “a protective bubble around” Biden and that he’s “staffed so closely that he’s lost all independence.”
The subpoenas, which come following Biden’s disastrous debate efficiency two weeks in the past, hope to determine the scope of the three aides’ job duties whereas serving below the administration.Â
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The three subpoenas, which had been despatched Wednesday, voice the committee’s concerns that top aides are working the nation whereas the president is unable to take action.
“To be clear, the American people did not elect Ms. Williams or any White House staffer to do President Biden’s job for him, and the Committee seeks Ms. Williams testimony regarding the matters identified above,” Williams’ subpoena reads, partly.
An picture from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation launched by the Department of Justice exhibits President Biden attending a National Security Council assembly with a categorized doc that was later present in his Delaware storage. (U.S. Department of Justice)
The committee additionally penned their allegations that Biden’s top workers, together with Bernal, Tomasini and Williams, had been concerned within the scandal of the president’s alleged mishandling of categorized information.
The Oversight Committee mentioned 5 whole White House employees and a Department of Defense worker had been concerned in “coordinating the organizing, moving, and removing of boxes that were later found to contain classified materials.”
Special Counsel Robert Hur, who had investigated Biden’s improper retention of categorized data since final yr, concluded his investigation in February.
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Hur didn’t advocate legal fees in opposition to Biden for his alleged mishandling of categorized paperwork.
“We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” the report states. “We would reach the same conclusion even if the Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.”
The particular counsel additionally described Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”Â
President Biden speaks at a marketing campaign occasion in Atlanta. (Megan Varner/Getty Images/File)
In an announcement to Fox News, Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, known as the subpoenas a “baseless political stunt.”
“Like everything Representative Comer has done over the past year, these subpoenas are a baseless political stunt intended for him to get media attention instead of engaging in legitimate oversight,” Sams mentioned.
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“His partisan attacks on the President have been discredited, and now he continues to debase the House by weaponizing subpoenas to get headlines instead of seeking information through the proper constitutional process,” he added.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House and Comer for remark.
