Jill Biden's 'work husband' runs for cover as privilege protection crumbles

Anthony Bernal, the erstwhile advisor to erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden, is refusing to look earlier the House Oversight Committee to beryllium questioned astir the alleged cover-up of erstwhile President Joe Biden’s intelligence decline.

Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said successful a property merchandise Tuesday that Bernal was refusing to look connected June 26 for a transcribed interview, arsenic portion of the committee’s probe into the Biden cover-up, and besides the perchance unauthorized usage of autopen for enforcement actions and pardons.

"Now that the White House has waived enforcement privilege, it’s abundantly wide that Anthony Bernal – Jill Biden’s alleged ‘work husband’ – ne'er intended to beryllium transparent astir Joe Biden’s cognitive diminution and the ensuing cover-up," Comer said. "With nary privilege near to fell behind, Mr. Bernal is present moving scared, hopeless to hide the truth. The American radical merit answers and accountability, and the Oversight Committee volition not tolerate this obstruction."

The president added that if Bernal does not privation to travel connected his own, helium volition contented a subpoena to compel Bernal to supply grounds earlier the committee.

HOUSE REPUBLICANS INCH CLOSER TO ANSWERS AS FORMER BIDEN ADVISORS LOSE EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE SHIELD

Former archetypal woman Jill Biden's erstwhile elder advisor, Anthony Bernal, has refused to supply grounds regarding erstwhile President Joe Biden's alleged intelligence wellness decline, scheduled for Jun 26, 2025, earlier the House Oversight Committee. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Letters obtained by Fox News Digital from a root acquainted with the substance amusement the Trump medication volition not let the radical of involvement successful Comer's probe to usage their past White House enactment arsenic a ineligible shield.

Deputy Counsel to the President Gary Lawkowski sent the letters to erstwhile Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain, erstwhile elder advisors Anita Dunn, Steve Ricchetti, Mike Donilon, Annie Tomasini, Bruce Reed, Ashley Williams and Bernal.

"In airy of the unsocial and bonzer quality of the matters nether investigation, President Trump has determined that an assertion of enforcement privilege is not successful the nationalist interest, and truthful is not justified, with respect to peculiar subjects wrong the purview of the House Oversight Committee," the letters said. "Those subjects see your appraisal of erstwhile President Biden's fittingness for the bureau of the President and your cognition of who exercised enforcement powers during his administration."

TOP BIDEN OFFICIALS SUMMONED TO TESTIFY ABOUT ALLEGED COVER-UP OF FORMER PRESIDENT'S MENTAL FITNESS

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said helium volition subpoena erstwhile First Lady Jill Biden's erstwhile Senior Aide, Anthony Bernal, to supply grounds astir erstwhile President Joe Biden's alleged intelligence wellness diminution screen up, connected June 26, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Congressional Republicans and the White House are investigating whether the elder Biden aides successful question played immoderate relation successful keeping concerns astir the erstwhile president’s intelligence acuity shielded from the nationalist oculus and adjacent from lower-level White House staffers.

"Just yesterday, we heard from our archetypal witness, Neera Tanden, the erstwhile Staff Secretary who controlled the Biden autopen," Comer said Wednesday. "Ms. Tanden testified that she had minimal enactment with President Biden, contempt wielding tremendous authority. She explained that to get support for autopen signatures, she would nonstop determination memos to members of the President’s interior ellipse and had nary visibility of what occurred betwixt sending the memo and receiving it backmost with approval.

"Her grounds raises superior questions astir who was truly calling the shots successful the Biden White House amid the President’s evident decline," Comer continued. "We volition proceed to prosecute the information for the American people."

HOUSE GOP SECURES FOUR KEY WITNESSES IN BIDEN MENTAL-DECLINE PROBE AS FORMER AIDES AGREE TO TALK

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding 3 high-ranking staffers successful erstwhile President Joe Biden’s White House look for transcribed interviews connected their suspected roles moving "behind the scenes" to "cover-up" the erstwhile president’s important intelligence diminution during his term. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Bernal’s squad antecedently confirmed helium would look for a transcribed interrogation connected June 26, 2025, according to Comer’s office. But yesterday, the White House counsel’s bureau notified Bernal that it was waiving enforcement privilege regarding the Oversight Committee’s investigation.

Bernal’s ineligible squad past told the committee helium would nary longer look for the interview.

Comer’s squad said successful the property merchandise that during the past Congress, the president subpoenaed 3 cardinal White House aides, including Bernal, who allegedly ran interference for Biden to screen up his decline.

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Despite the subpoenas, the White House nether Biden allegedly obstructed the committee’s probe by refusing to marque the aides disposable for interviews oregon depositions.

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.