Top Biden officials summoned to testify about alleged cover-up of former president's mental fitness

The House Oversight Committee is proceeding from 2 apical erstwhile Biden medication aides this week arsenic Republicans proceed to probe allegations that ex-President Joe Biden’s apical lieutenants covered up the erstwhile leader’s intelligence diminution portion successful office.

Former Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden volition conscionable with the committee Tuesday.

Former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady Anthony Bernthal volition conscionable with the committee Thursday. 

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President Joe Biden speaks astir overseas argumentation during a code astatine the State Department successful Washington connected Jan. 13. (AP/Susan Walsh)

The committee besides has interviews scheduled with erstwhile medication officials Annie Tomasini and Ashley Williams, portion seeking interviews with respective officials successful the Biden interior circle, including erstwhile Chief of Staff Ron Klain and erstwhile Senior Advisor to the President for Communications Anita Dunn. 

Biden’s erstwhile doctor, Kevin O’Connor, volition beryllium down with House investigators successful July.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is probing whether those closest to Biden successful his White House knowingly colluded to fell the erstwhile president's declining intelligence acuity and utilized methods to circumvent the erstwhile president erstwhile it came to the issuance of important orders.

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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. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump also ordered the Department of Justice to unfastened an probe into the matter. The president directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House counsel David Warrington to grip the investigation.

In effect to the Trump administration's telephone for an investigation, Biden declared helium was the lone 1 who "made the decisions" during his presidency and called Trump's efforts a "distraction."

Among the questions House investigators are expected to person is whether immoderate Biden officials utilized the autopen to authorize enforcement actions without the president's permission. 

The sit-downs are down closed doors, arsenic opposed to nationalist legislature hearings.

The interviews volition beryllium transcribed and apt released astatine a aboriginal date.

The House Oversight Committee is proceeding from 2 apical erstwhile Biden medication aides this week arsenic Republicans proceed to probe allegations that ex-President Joe Biden’s apical lieutenants covered up the erstwhile leader’s intelligence diminution portion successful office. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Care Can't Wait Action)

Comer antecedently told Fox News Digital that the much muted mounting of a closed-door interrogation would let House lawmakers to get much cardinal information, arsenic opposed to the nationalist spectacle of a hearing.

"I’ve studied history, there’s ne'er been a committee proceeding that did what it’s expected to do," Comer said.

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"But these depositions and interviews, do. You’ve got 1 hour, you’re not interrupted, you don’t person to spell 5 minutes backmost and forth. So to extract information, we’re going to spell with the interviews. We could person a proceeding aboriginal on, but close now, I deliberation we tin get much done quicker with interviews."