{"id":10134,"date":"2025-06-10T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-biden-aides-agree-to-testify-on-his-mental-acuity-to-house-oversight\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:32:48","slug":"former-biden-aides-agree-to-testify-on-his-mental-acuity-to-house-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-biden-aides-agree-to-testify-on-his-mental-acuity-to-house-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Biden aides agree to testify on his mental acuity to House Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Four senior Biden White House aides agreed to testify to the House Oversight Committee as part of its probe into former President Joe Biden\u2019s ailing health while in office, according to a committee aide.<\/p>\n<p>Their testimony schedule: <br \/>\u2014 Neera Tanden, former director of the Domestic Policy Council, on June 24<br \/>\u2014 Anthony Bernal, former senior adviser to the First Lady, on June 26<br \/>\u2014 Ashley Williams, former deputy director of Oval Office operations, on July 11<br \/>\u2014 Annie Tomasini, former deputy chief of staff, on July 18<\/p>\n<p>Chair James Comer had requested the aides\u2019 cooperation with his investigation in May, amid renewed scrutiny in Washington of the former president\u2019s mental acuity. Last week, the Kentucky Republican sent a subpoena to Biden\u2019s physician Kevin O\u2019Connor, calling him to appear on June 27 after O\u2019Connor rejected Comer\u2019s invitation to testify.<\/p>\n<p>Even after Biden largely retreated from public view, congressional Republicans have focused extensively on concerns around the octogenarian former president\u2019s health. The Senate will hold a hearing on the matter next week.<\/p>\n<p>Comer has also requested testimony from former senior adviser to the president Michael Donilon; former senior adviser to the president Anita Dunn; former deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed; and former counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a similar White House probe into whether aides contributed to a cover-up of Biden\u2019s decline, Biden has maintained that he drove his own decisions during his presidency. There is no evidence aides acted on his behalf in response to his ailing health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four senior Biden White House aides agreed to testify to the House Oversight Committee as part of its probe into former President Joe Biden\u2019s ailing health while in office, according to a committee aide. Their testimony schedule: \u2014 Neera Tanden, former director of the Domestic Policy Council, on June 24\u2014 Anthony Bernal, former senior adviser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}