Top Biden officials summoned to testify about alleged cover-up of former president's mental fitness
The House Oversight Committee is hearing from two top former Biden administration aides this week as Republicans continue to probe statements that ex-President Joe Biden's top lieutenants covered up the former leader s mental decline while in office Former Domestic Agenda Council Director Neera Tanden will meet with the committee on Tuesday and former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady Anthony Bernthal will meet with the committee on Thursday TRUMP NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE OVER IRAN-ISRAEL CEASEFIRE DEALThe committee also has interviews scheduled with former administration functionaries Annie Tomasini and Ashley Williams while seeking interviews with several executives in the Biden inner circle including former Chief of Staff Ron Klain and former Senior Advisor to the President for Communications Anita Dunn Biden s former specialist Kevin O Connor will sit down with House investigators in July House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer R-Ky is probing whether those closest to Biden in his White House knowingly colluded to hide the former president's declining mental acuity and used methods to circumvent the former president when it came to the issuance of major orders HOUSE GOP SECURES FOUR KEY SPECTATORS IN BIDEN MENTAL-DECLINE PROBE AS FORMER AIDES AGREE TO TALKPresident Donald Trump also ordered the Department of Justice to open an assessment into the matter The president directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House counsel David Warrington to handle the probe In response to the Trump administration's call for an inquiry Biden declared he was the only one who made the decisions during his presidency and called Trump's efforts a distraction Among the questions House investigators are expected to have is whether any Biden officers used the autopen to authorize executive actions without the president's permission The sit-downs are behind closed doors as opposed to populace congressional hearings The interviews will be transcribed and likely disclosed at a later date Comer previously described Fox News Digital that the more muted setting of a closed-door interview would allow House lawmakers to get more key information as opposed to the populace spectacle of a hearing I ve studied history there s never been a committee hearing that did what it s supposed to do Comer noted But these depositions and interviews do You ve got one hour you re not interrupted you don t have to go five minutes back and forth So to extract information we re going to go with the interviews We could have a hearing later on but right now I think we can get more done quicker with interviews
