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Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., issued a subpoena to have former President Joe Biden’s deputy chief of workers seem earlier than the committee on Friday to offer testimony relating to her former boss’s psychological state whereas serving within the Oval Workplace.
Comer, who leads the Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform, despatched interview requests to 4 key Biden White Home aides, together with former assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Employees Annie Tomasini.
The previous assistant’s voluntary look was requested on Might 22, 2025, and it was scheduled for her to look earlier than the committee on July 18, or this Friday.
For unknown causes, although, Tomasini’s counsel requested Comer challenge a subpoena to compel her to look.
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Then-President Joe Biden with Annie Tomasini throughout the White Home Congressional Picnic on July 12, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Nicholas Kamm)
Comer broke down the occasions main as much as the subpoena in his letter to Tomasini, earlier than directing her to the underside of the letter for the authorized request.
“The Committee seeks details about your evaluation of and relationship with former President Biden to discover whether or not the time has come for Congress to revisit potential laws to deal with the oversight of presidents’ health to serve pursuant to its authority beneath Part 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Modification, or to suggest modifications to the Twenty-Fifth Modification itself,” Comer wrote within the subpoena.
“The Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform is the principal oversight committee of the U.S. Home of Representatives and has broad authority to research ‘any matter’ at ‘any time’ beneath Home Rule X,” he continued. “Additional, Home Rule XI clause 2(m)(1)(B) grants Committees of the Home of Representatives the authority ‘to require, by subpoena or in any other case, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the manufacturing of such books, information, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and paperwork because it considers vital.’”
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Home Oversight and Accountability committee Chairman James Comer issued a subpoena to former Biden aide Annie Tomasini. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)
Comer added that ought to Tomasini have any questions, she ought to name the Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform Majority workers.
The chair beforehand informed Fox Information that these “unelected bureaucrats” had an awesome affect over Biden and have been presumably serving as “de facto” presidents in his stead.”
Together with Tomasini, the committee despatched interview requests to former director of the Home Coverage Council Neera Tanden, former senior adviser to the primary woman Anthony Bernal and former deputy director of Oval Workplace operations Ashley Williams.
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Former First Woman Jill Biden’s aide Anthony Bernal was subpoenaed to look earlier than Home Oversight Committee investigators. (Getty Photos)
Bernal was additionally subpoenaed after refusing to voluntarily seem earlier than the committee.
Williams and Tanden have already been interviewed by committee members.
The GOP effort to uncover the reality of what went on behind closed doorways throughout the Biden administration comes shortly after the discharge of “Unique Sin” by CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which claims that the Biden White Home was going all out making an attempt to manage the notion of the ageing president’s failing well being. The e-book exposes the cover-up of Biden’s decline and his choice to run for re-election.
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Annie Tomasini, director of Oval Workplace operations, left, follows behind President Joe Biden, not pictured, on the South Garden of the White Home earlier than boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Might 17, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
Tapper mentioned throughout an interview with Piers Morgan final month that what Biden’s aides did to cover his situation from the general public might be “even worse” than the Watergate scandal throughout Richard Nixon’s presidency.
“It’s a scandal. It’s with out query, and perhaps even worse than Watergate in some methods,” Tapper mentioned. “The one motive we invoke Watergate is simply to clarify like, it is not Watergate — that is a wholly separate scandal, perhaps even worse.”
In his letters, Comer mentioned that whereas the committee has been investigating the cover-up for practically a yr, “newfound particulars relating to President Biden’s apparent decline demand renewed scrutiny of White Home personnel actions and data of related data over the course of the prior administration.”
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Comer mentioned the committee is searching for “to know who made key selections and exercised the powers of the manager department throughout the Biden Administration.”
Fox Information Digital’s Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
