Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) is increasing his probe into former President Biden’s psychological acuity by demanding interviews with a few of his former prime aides.
Comer on Wednesday despatched letters to former chief-of-staff Ron Klain, senior adviser Anita Dunn, former counselor Steve Ricchetti, and aides Michael Donilon and Bruce Reed.
“The scope of your responsibilities — both official and otherwise — and personal interactions within the Oval Office cannot go without investigation. If White House staff carried out a strategy lasting months or even years to hide the chief executive’s condition — or to perform his duties — Congress may need to consider a legislative response,” Comer wrote in a letter to Klain.
Whereas the letters demand a transcribed interview, additionally they ask the recipients in the event that they “would require a subpoena to compel your attendance.”
The Hill reached out to Klain and a consultant for Dunn for remark however was not instantly capable of attain the opposite aides for remark.
Comer over the past Congress requested interviews with three different White Home aides, in addition to Biden’s doctor.
New books, together with “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” have reignited debate about Biden’s psychological acuity whereas in workplace and whether or not he skilled cognitive decline.
Since President Trump took workplace, the GOP has taken quite a lot of steps specializing in Biden.
The White Home confirmed Tuesday that pardon legal professional Ed Martin can be reviewing Biden’s pardons for his members of the family, in addition to another clemencies granted throughout his remaining days in workplace.
And the Justice Division final month launched the total tapes of Biden’s interview with particular counsel Robert Hur, one during which the legal professional stated Biden appeared to have reminiscence lapses. Whereas president, Biden launched the total transcript of the dialog.
Biden, by a spokesperson, has rejected claims he didn’t have the psychological acuity to handle the presidency.
“We continue to await anything that shows where Joe Biden had to make a presidential decision or where national security was threatened or where he was unable to do his job,” a spokesperson stated in response to the e-book launch.
