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An eleventh former Biden administration aide is showing earlier than Home Oversight Committee investigators on Thursday morning as Republicans proceed to analyze allegations of a “cover-up” within the earlier White Home.
Ian Sams is a longtime Democrat communications operative who most lately served as a senior spokesman for former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 marketing campaign.
Earlier than that, he served as a senior advisor and spokesman for the White Home Counsel’s Workplace beneath former President Joe Biden, the place his main function entailed responding to congressional probes primarily launched by Republicans.
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Ian Sams, a former spokesman for each Biden and Harris, is showing earlier than the Home Oversight Committee. He is pictured right here on Feb. 1, 2023. (Getty Photos)
“You have been a primary line of protection to spin destructive tales concerning the president and his mishaps,” Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., wrote to Sams in late June.
He identified that Sams’ tenure in that function, which lasted from Might 2022 to late August 2024, stretched throughout a lot of the latter half of Biden’s time period.
“The scope of your obligations – each official and in any other case – and private interactions inside the Oval Workplace can not go with out investigation, given the mounting proof that President Biden was incapacitated for a lot, if not all, of his single time period,” Comer wrote. “If White Home workers carried out a method lasting months and even years to cover the chief government’s situation – or to carry out his duties – Congress may have to think about a legislative response.”
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Former President Joe Biden speaks to Everytown for Gun Security Motion Fund’s “Gun Sense College” on June 11, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
Comer’s committee is investigating whether or not Biden’s high White Home aides coated up indicators of psychological decline within the former president from each the media and fellow Democrats.
Of explicit curiosity to Home investigators is the myriad clemency orders that Trump signed within the latter half of his four-year time period, and whether or not these choices and others signed by way of autopen have been made with Biden’s full consciousness.
Biden maintained he “made each resolution” in a current interview with The New York Instances.
Sams was additionally notably thrust into the highlight throughout his time as a Harris 2024 spokesman after being known as out by title by President Donald Trump.
“Sams is only a below-average man, with memorized FAKE NEWS soundbites, virtually all of that are WRONG,” Trump wrote on Reality Social after one in every of Sams’ appearances on Fox Information Channel final 12 months.
Former Biden White Home officers Ian Sams, Andrew Bates, Karine Jean-Pierre, and Jeff Zients are nonetheless anticipated to come back in for interviews with the Home Oversight Committee. (Fox Information )
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Whereas Sams is the eleventh former Biden White Home aide showing, he’s simply the eighth to come back in for a voluntary interview.
Three different former Biden officers – ex-White Home doctor Kevin O’Connor and former senior advisors Anthony Bernal and Annie Tomasini – have been compelled to enchantment by way of subpoena.
Just like the sit-downs earlier than his, Sams’ interview will likely be happening behind closed doorways and is predicted to be led by legal professionals for each Republicans and Democrats on the committee.
