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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is widening his probe into the alleged "cover-up" of erstwhile President Joe Biden's intelligence diminution by seeking interviews with 5 much erstwhile White House aides.
Comer sent letters to 5 much apical erstwhile Biden staffers, putting his full outreach successful the probe to 10 radical truthful far.
The latest circular of letters are being sent to erstwhile White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, erstwhile elder communications advisor Anita Dunn, erstwhile apical advisors Michael Donilon and Steve Ricchetti, and erstwhile Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Bruce Reed.
"The Committee connected Oversight and Government Reform is investigating the relation of erstwhile elder White House officials successful perchance usurping authorization from erstwhile President Joe Biden and the ramifications of a White House unit intent connected hiding his rapidly worsening intelligence and carnal faculties," Comer wrote to the 5 erstwhile aides.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., right, is widening his probe into erstwhile President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"The Committee has been investigating this contented for astir a year. The Committee seeks to recognize who made cardinal decisions and exercised the powers of the enforcement subdivision during the previous administration, perchance without erstwhile President Biden’s consent. The Committee requests your grounds to measure your eye-witness relationship of erstwhile President Biden’s decline."
Each missive besides elaborate circumstantial reasons the committee is seeking to talk to each person.
"You served arsenic Chief of Staff for erstwhile President Biden. Before departing the White House successful 2023, you had been by erstwhile President Biden’s broadside 'for much than 3 decades.' You returned to the erstwhile president’s broadside successful 2024 to assistance his run and hole him for the June 27, 2024, statement with President Donald Trump," the missive to Klain read, citing a recent Politico article.
"According to an interview, you chopped abbreviated the statement prep ‘due to the president’s fatigue and deficiency of familiarity with the taxable matter’ and said that the erstwhile president ‘didn’t truly recognize what his statement was connected inflation.’ The scope of your responsibilities—both authoritative and otherwise—and idiosyncratic interactions wrong the Oval Office cannot spell without investigation."

Ron Klain, erstwhile White House main of staff, is being contacted by Rep. James Comer. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
To Dunn, Comer wrote, "Former President Biden confided successful you extensively implicit the past decade. The Committee seeks to recognize your observations of erstwhile President Biden’s intelligence acuity and wellness arsenic 1 of his closest advisors.
"If White House unit carried retired a strategy lasting months oregon adjacent years to fell the main executive’s condition—or to execute his duties—Congress whitethorn request to see a legislative response," the missive said.
Comer has asked each of the 5 aides to look for closed-door transcribed interviews.
He told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday that it was a much effectual probe maneuver than a nationalist proceeding that could easy devolve into an unproductive spectacle.
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Rep. James Comer besides reached retired to Anita Dunn.
"You've got 1 hour, you're not interrupted, you don't person to spell 5 minutes backmost and forth," Comer said. "So to extract information, we're going to spell with the interviews."
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Comer antecedently reached retired to erstwhile Biden doc Kevin O’Connor and erstwhile White House aides Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams and Neera Tanden to appear.
The committee said it expects the witnesses to voluntarily comply with the probe and volition merchandise transcribed interrogation dates aboriginal this week. Comer has not ruled retired the menace of subpoenas, however, if talks spell awry.
Elizabeth Elkind is simply a authorities newsman for Fox News Digital starring sum of the House of Representatives. Previous integer bylines seen astatine Daily Mail and CBS News.
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