House committee subpoenas top White House aides over concerns about Biden's mental fitness
The GOP-led House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed three senior White House aides, demanding that they sit for depositions concerning President Biden’s mental state.
Fox News confirmed that the subpoena includes first lady Jill Biden’s top aide, Anthony Bernal, deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and senior adviser Ashley Williams.
In a press release, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., called for accountability within 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 said.
"President Biden is clearly unfit for office, yet his staff are trying to hide the truth from the American people," he said.
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The GOP-led committee argued that the top Biden aides were "running interference" for Biden to shield the 81-year-old president from facing scrutiny.
According to one former Biden staffer, Axios first reported, Bernal, Tomasini and Williams have created "a protective bubble around" Biden and that he is "staffed so closely that he’s lost all independence."
The subpoenas, which come following Biden's disastrous debate performance two weeks ago, hope to identify the scope of the three aides' job responsibilities while serving under the administration.
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The three subpoenas, which were sent Wednesday, voice the committee's concerns that top aides are running the country while the president is unable to do so.