The House Oversight Committee has expanded the scope of its probe into President Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline to what White House spokespersons knew while they were on TV defending his fitness for office.
While working as the chief spokesperson for the then-president, Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed concerns about her boss’ health, asserting, “Oh, my gosh, he’s the president of the United States, you know, I can’t even keep up with him.”
Now, Jean-Pierre, along with Biden’s former White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients, and other key officials, will have to answer questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about Biden’s fitness to serve in the nation’s highest office.
Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., sent letters to the former Biden officials calling for them to appear for transcribed interviews. Similar letters went to Ian Sams and Andrew Bates, who both previously worked in the White House press office during the Biden administration.
“President Biden’s inner circle repeatedly told the American people that he was ‘sharp as ever,’ dismissing any commentary about his obvious mental decline as ‘gratuitous.’ They fed these false talking points to progressive allies and the media, who helped perpetuate that President Biden was fit to serve,” Comer said in a public statement. “As part of our aggressive investigation into the cover-up of his cognitive decline and potentially unauthorized executive actions, we must hear from the those who aided and abetted this farce.”
Comer has called on multiple Biden White House officials to appear for transcribed interviews. Most did so voluntarily, but the committee issued subpoenas to Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician, and Anthony Bernal, a former senior adviser to first lady Jill Biden, after they refused to do so voluntarily.
