Earlier this week, House Republicans subpoenaed three top White House aides in hopes of gaining more insight into the scheme to hide President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline from the public. Their testimony could be the start of a more extensive effort by congressional Republicans – perhaps even with some support from Democrats – to expose the lengths to which Biden’s inner circle went to deceive the American people about the president’s condition.
The three aides who will start the initial round of testimony on Biden’s health are White House Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, First Lady Jill Biden’s senior adviser Anthony Bernal, and Deputy Director of Oval Office Operations Ashley Williams. According to Axios, the trio is primarily responsible for forming a “protective bubble” around the president.
“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,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said in a press release. “President Biden is clearly unfit for office, yet his staff are trying to hide the truth from the American people. Key White House staff must come before our committee so we can provide the transparency and accountability that Americans deserve.”
Comer has also indicated that the committee will subpoena Biden’s White House doctor if he does not comply with a voluntary interview request.
Comer’s statement reflects the frustration of many Americans – particularly Democrat voters – following Biden’s debate debacle late last month. Though Biden’s health has been a major question mark going all the way back to his 2020 campaign, his shockingly poor performance on stage with former President Donald Trump has erased all remaining doubt about his cognitive decline.
Following the debate, fresh details have emerged about the extent to which Biden is “stage managed” by his staff, including confirmation that he has a list of reporters to call on before his rare press conferences and that cabinet meetings are essentially scripted performances – when they happen at all. One Cabinet secretary told CNN they are “uncertain of Biden’s condition because they so rarely see him.”
Americans rightly feel lied to about Biden’s condition – a scandal that likely extends not just to the president’s aides but also elected Democrats and the mainstream media. Former Trump advisor Stephen Miller has termed the cover-up the “Biden cognition hoax,” alleging that, “Anybody who’s anybody in the Democratic Party participated in, knew of, and covered up Biden’s cognitive dysfunction while allowing secret unnamed staffers to run the country.”
Now, with the public demanding answers, congressional Republicans appear to have all the political momentum they need to use their investigatory and subpoena powers to expose the details of this scandal and hold the perpetrators accountable – a list of co-conspirators that likely extends to the very highest ranks of Democrat leadership.
That list starts with Vice President Kamala Harris, who has repeatedly insisted that Biden is in excellent health. “Our president is in good shape, and is ready to lead in our second term,” she said as recently as this past February. As someone who works with and around Biden every day, Harris has had a front-row seat for four years to the president’s cognitive collapse, which was likely already in progress even before the 2020 election.
Congressional Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have also assured Americans over the last four years that Biden is “sharp as a tack” and has a strong understanding of complex issues.
Of course, some of these same Democrats are now feigning shock and outrage at supposedly discovering for the first time that the President of the United States is senile. “We kind of just feel lied to” about the president’s condition, one Democrat senator told Punchbowl News. “They’ve been shielding him from those types of settings for months and even after it became undeniable, they’re still lying to us. There’s just a lot of frustration right now in the caucus.”
We shouldn’t forget here that Democrats are only raising these concerns after the debate, rather than voicing them publicly in the months leading up to it where Biden was supposedly missing in action. Much of this outrage is undoubtedly performative to distract from their own complicity in covering for an ailing Biden in the hopes of saving their own political skins this November.
Nonetheless, as more and more Democrats publicly call on Biden to exit the race (even if it is just a matter of self-preservation) there may be an emerging bipartisan majority ready to ask tough questions of Biden’s team and begin to reveal the fraud that was perpetrated on the American people.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
The chances of that ever happening are somewhere between slim and none. And slim just left town. Democrats are the ones that put him there. They will not stop until the destruction of this country is complete. A party that thinks that thanks to Gavin Newsome might be a good candidate for president is truly a deranged party. The Democrat Party needs to be classified as a domestic terrorist organization and banned from this country.
Haven’t we all learned by now that Democrats will conceal anything to keep them in power.
Democrats and their MSM activists are like the BBC-TV “Monty Python” sketch with the pet shop owner who sells a dead parrot to a customer then continually denies its dead. I’ve no doubt if Biden keeled over tomorrow they’d nail his feet to a perch as well and try to pass him off as living.
Since they have Democrats and the News Media have been lying to the American people for 4-years, real Americans should not vote for a New Democrat candidate, do not reward them for Lying to us all this time, make them pay!
God Bless America!
The LUST FOR POWER by the Communist wannabe Democratic Party Leadership is ALL CONSUMING! Their GREED to stay in power overwhelms their ability to do what’s right. These people need to be exposed and then prosecuted under the full extent of the law. As it is I’m not sure the country can survive this attack on Capitalism without someone like a Donald Trump at the helm!
While they are at it they should investigate the media that told us everything that was wrong with Donald Trump at the same time telling us there’s nothing wrong with Joe Biden. One of these things is not like the other.
The demoncraps will cheat, steal, hide anything from the American people to stay in power. They have the MSM to cover for them. They don’t care about America or the taxpayers. They are only in it for the power and money. They have no shame!
This would be a huge waste of time and resources. It has been plain to see for the last 5 years that Biden was suffering from dementia and thus was too cognitively impaired to serve as POTUS. Yet the MSM covered for him, and Biden was installed in the Oval Office. His mental faculties have been steadily declining since Day One, so the national security issues, as well as domestic issues have all been “managed” by the Obama era White House staff that surrounds and manages Biden 24×7.
The Constitution has a mechanism for dealing with an impaired POTUS. It’s called the 25th Amendment, but none of Biden’s Cabinet will invoke it. They all want to retain their power. Biden could of course also step down and hand the presidency to Harris, who would function as an equally useless puppet, but the Biden family needs Old Joe in the WH to keep the rest of the Biden family from jail. So those are the options in the Constitution. Congress can investigate to its hearts’ content, but any doctors called before Congress will simply invoke doctor / patient privilege and that will be that. So aside from another expensive photo op for members of Congress in an election year, nothing Congress has outlined would have any effect in removing Joe Biden from office. So, stop wasting money on efforts that are bound to fail and instead focus on things that Congress can actually influence.
It’s sad as to how we know they’ve lied, the news lies and yet people continue the same habits. Watch the same news, listen to the same shows and we’ll ” That’s just Ole joe ”
As they push Joe into the street for a parden for Hunter, money, vouge mag photo shoots and power. He is no different than the mob, but at least the mob is honorable.
Bidens family or the health and human services should be forced to step in under Senior Citizens abuse and jail Jill.
Must you rub more salt into the wound? We all; know that congress is not our friend and had it had any intention to do the right thing the wrong would not happen in the first place
House issues subpoenas–people do not appear–House sends referral to “Meritless” Garland– Garland tells House to pound sand! We’ve heard this story before. Some RINOs refuse to use the “nuclear option” to bypass the crooked “injustice” department!
Funny investigate who? Congress?. They group with the largest per group percent of criminals
My wife died “with” Parkinson’s Disease a year and a half ago. As her care giver for 6+ years with the disease, the decline I saw in her as her life neared its end was tragic. Joe Biden illustrates these same symptom’s and more common to Parkinson’s. Three days ago, I wrote the Parkinson’s Foundation and asked their opinion on Joe. They strongly agreed with my assessment. I am a Christian who has spoken my views outwardly on many conservative issues for over 74 years. Joe Biden’s caregivers are without a doubt the greatest example of ELDER ABUSE I HAVE EVER WITNESSED. Had I threated my wife of over 49 years the way they treat Biden, not only would I have been unable to live with myself, but I should have been prosecuted to the fullest degree; that’s what should happen to ALL that are endorsing this behavior. Thank you Amac for this article and God Bless America!
Bob
Gosh, don’t forget kJP!! She has deceived the press!
Let Biden run ….sure way for Trump to win.
The motto of the Left (the Democrats in this country): Power and control, at any price, at any cost, by any means necessary. That includes lying, cheating, stealing, and yes, killing.
The perpetration of shielding American citizens from Joe’s cognitive decline was evident in 2020 election. Why did they hide him away and when he was out campaigning he made gaffes over and over again. The MSM propaganda machine went to work to interpret what we were seeing and hearing was not what happened. Brainwashing, gaslighting, manipulation whatever you want to call it came straight from Karl Marx playbook. Only the people are a lot smarter, have more information at their fingertips. They can’t get away with this any longer. Ole Joe can whisper and sneer all he wants but we are on to him. The sly fox has been found out and we are not trusting him with anything he says or does. His lies have been proven to be lies. He was elected through fraudulent means and the dems with the elites and the deep state have been governing the country. And ole Joe takes the glory. He talks about the Ukraine like he is the president of that country. He mentioned 300K Russian soldiers have died. Well half a million Ukrainians have died as well. Only he does not mention that. And he says I will not talk to Putin. It takes guts Joe to start a dialogue with a perceived enemy. It should have never started. You should have signed the Minsk accord and not sent Johnson to tell them no. A million people would still be alive. Only ole Joe doesn’t care because his cabinet never talks to him. He never hears the other side. He didn’t care that 13 of our soldiers were killed with the disaster withdrawal from Afghanistan. Plus the hundreds of Afghanistanians who helped our military and were left to be killed by the Taliban. Whole families were slaughtered. I didn’t trust him in 2020 nor when he was a senator. He was a coattail senator. Should never have been picked as a candidate for president. Only the ultra left elites saw a chance to put a puppet in the White House and thereby keep the power forever. They didn’t count on ole Joe’s ego. Joe took Trump’s bait to have a debate. And the facade came crumbling down. Are we still sheep and believe this man can be president of America? He needs to be taken down.
How come we the people see and know what is going on but the Politicians are clueless?!!
cOVER UP ?? cOVER UP WHAT WE’VE KNIOWN FOR A LONG TIME. kYLE l.
What cover up? If you mean that the main stream media failed to report on hapless Joe’s daily flubs, OK. But how successful was this organized effort to applaud the Emperor’s clothes?
Everybody knew for the last 3 1/2 years that Joe Biden was suffering from a brain deficiency. The Democrats and their acolytes wouldn’t address it, and the media glossed over it. Then came the Presidential Debate. Now NO ONE can defend Joe Biden as having enough cognitive ability to tie his own shoes.
It was bad enough to bear up under the derision of the leaders of other countries, but now the Democrats are struggling to present hapless Joe as anything but a turnip. obama requires another puppet that will do his bidding. Problem? Joe Biden has enough delegates to win the vote to be the Democrat Party nominee for the Presidential election. There is nothing that the Democrats can do to stop a determined Joe Biden from being on the ballot on November 5th. I can suggest a way to keep the agitated Joe Biden mollified in the meantime. Make sure that the good humor ice cream truck stops by the White House (7) times a day. I mean the fool is only awake for six hours, right?
DNC “produced” the infamous June debate to set up Biden to the world as “ohmagosh, ineffective!” candidate. Now their faces are covered in their own fertilizer and they’re running around in little circles piddling all over themselves doing damage control.
Do NOT waste time and tax dollars with another worthless investigation that will come to naught, on what America, even the Marxists, have known for years: Biden is a potato (squash, cabbage, or any of your preferred vegetable “pronouns”). Jill is giddy with living the life of the queen Marxist bee and she ain’t lettin’ go of THAT oyster easily, you better believe, while Obama and Pelosi are losing their minds trying to figure out a way to install Michelle or Gavin via a “Kamalala via the 25th” without America seeing their feint and CNN and methNBC are drooling down their chins wondering how to spin it.
Just another day in the DNC’s leftist sh*t show. Stupid Americans won’t open their eyes to the reality before them and as usual, the only democrat victories come from cheating in the elections. “Nothing to see here, sheeple.” But be careful what you wish for.
Keep talkin’, Joe.
Speaker Johnson and/or an investigative committee need(s) to hire legitimate (non-partisan) investigator(s) to get to the bottom of who (all involved from bottom to top) has/have been behind covering the truth of Biden’s abilities (or lack of) as POTUS. Who put those three aides in WH and gave them orders?
My supposition is Obama is behind the cover-up as well as executed acts put in front of Biden to sign. And is Soros still instructing Obama? Whoever they are needs to be found and verified/proof so that legal action WILL be taken, though likely not by present DOJ.
Dems have done this since day 1
Joy Reed should be the first pretend journals fired!!
The wheels of Government move slow…too slow for me this should have happened prior to the 2020 election. Biden was hiding in the basement for a reason and it was because of health issues. Jill should be imprisoned for elder abuse along with his son.
Yesterday ALL 198 Members of the House voted against a bill that would help secure legitimate voters only. All… ALL…DEMOCRATS voted AGAINST IT. Do you honestly think they will investigate him? The smuck puppet?? Every news station I watch they are reporting that he is not withdrawing from the November election. They know he is a puppet and make sure they report him staying in. They even had witch hunter pelosi on the other day and she was smiling from ear to ear saying he should stay in if he wanted to. They see his performances. As President Trump always said FAKE NEWS STATIONS.
How come it hasn’t been investigated earlier? I knew from the first week of the steal that diaper joe wasn’t all there and that cackling Kamala was qualified to walk my dog let alone run the country.
They’re both puppets, plain and simple. The problem is we continue to allow it…what does that say about us?
God help us, Trump 2024.
I do believe that a lot of democrats are starting to see how scandalous the democrat party is.
For many, their jobs depend on Biden remaining president. Does that excuse taking advantage of Biden’s failing mind? Or being complicit in failing American citizens? Absolutely not.
I’m am not for Biden at all, in fact I am starting to feel sorry for the man. Whoever is pulling the strings should be charged with elder abuse. Everything sure points that way. So glad that it is being looked into.
Even though this inquiry is warranted, expect the usual delaying tactics by Biden’s staff and company. The Demos need to get their ducks in a row and come up with a viable candidate for November, then they will abandon Biden to the wolves. Again, it will up to a legal voting public to vote in candidates who will do their proper duties to and for the nation.
Accountability! Since when is anybody in the democrat party held accountable for anything they say or do? Thier own voters won’t even hold them accountable. Republicans are asking questions? So what! It’s meaningless! Republicans are great at looking busy while accomplishing nothing. But I suppose they have the pompous satisfaction of being on the record. Give me a break! Accountability? There’s no such thing in this country unless you went to the capital on Jan.6!
Oh, yeah, right….. more investigations that lead to nothing but a waste of time and taxpayers money. Crooked investigating the crooked. . . . that’s real smart – NOT!
going forward, there should be an intense investigation into who has been running the country since 2020. there are a group of unelected anonymous people making all of the decisions. this is treason and should be treated as such.
Let’s not get so involved in this debacle that we take our eyes off the prize. This citizen, and I’m sure many more, realize that there are “string pullers” running the Democrat Whitehouse. Same with all Democrat president’s since the Clinton’s. Yes, we need to expose that and the “string pullers” as well – including the conviction of crimes crimes against our country. However, we must be more intent on winning the Whitehouse, the Senate, the house and with majorities. Our future depends on it.
With DC’s corruption putting America on the Brink of Communism, Socialism and Financial Collapse, this investigation should be near the bottom of the list because there are many more important things that need to be addressed in order to straighten our country out.
Oh, goody, the prospect of yet ANOTHER congressional “investigation”! Seriously, have our representatives nothing better to do? I’m well-past weary of these perpetual exercises in futility. Apparently, they are ends unto themselves, since nothing ever results. There are the requisite hearings with testimonials “under oath” (whatever THAT signifies!) and the resulting “evidence” entered into the record; the predictable accusations, denials, and manufactured outrage; then self-righteous political posturing, followed by the collective stampede to the MSM microphones and cameras. Finally, voluminous reports are issued which do nothing but keep personnel at the Government Printing Office employed. If laws were broken, why are there never any indictments, arrests, formal criminal charges, trials, verdicts, and punishments? If no laws were broken, what is the point? To “inform” the electorate? If the electorate needs such charades to form their opinions and steer their votes, we’re truly lost!
By the time congress gets around to finishing their investigation, at least 4 more years will have gone by and billions more dollars gone down the drain.
Biden is playing his part as intended, an empty vessel fronting for the shadow regime of aides, handlers, staff, and family members with overlapping agendas and their own schemes, reporting back to previous masters and big mega donors they still work and or worked for. Like DiFi and Notorious RBG he will remain in place till the final days of term limitations or be carried out on a gurney in a body bag. BTW hours before her demise DiFi cast her last Senate vote, think about that.
Biden isn’t going anywhere because he HAS to be there to PARDON his SON! AND, no one ELSE is going to just be a ‘place-holder puppet’ for BO, like JB has. No other person has that little ‘care’ about the Office to DO THAT, even FOR BO!!! If JB dies, idiot Harris is in. If Biden drops out, either Clinton or Michael will be the new shoe-ins (because stupidos think ‘a woman president’ would be glorious – no matter ‘who’ it is!) for the same reason they voted for BO in ’08, thinking THAT was momentous! but it wasn’t. It was the WORST thing imaginable for America! that enabled him to ‘stay in place’ ever-after!!! whatever happens with Dems, it won’t be good. It will be DISASTER for us. Our ONLY HOPE is that America WAKES UP!!!
At least the Rupublicans are doing something but there are far bigger fish to fry than chasing the culprits behind an administration that is imploding. We need to investigate the illegal use of the alphabet agencies and legal system to persicute Americans that go against their political agenda and opponents. We need to get on top of this open border and the billions of dollars it is costing us.
Who will investigate Congressional cognitive decline? Voters of course.
I think it’s past time the American people get off their ass and demand he resign or Kamala invoke the 25th Ammendment. We can no longer get WAIT for Congrress to act and we know we can’t rely on the GOP so it’s up to We the People
Of the long list of Un-American events and behaviors from our “leaders”over the past several years …. we’re concerned about this mini coverup?! C’mon man.