{"id":9539,"date":"2025-05-22T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/comer-calls-bidens-physician-former-aides-to-sit-for-interviews\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:46:37","slug":"comer-calls-bidens-physician-former-aides-to-sit-for-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/comer-calls-bidens-physician-former-aides-to-sit-for-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Comer calls Biden&#8217;s physician, former aides to sit for interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer is demanding interviews with Joe Biden\u2019s physician and former White House officials as part of his investigation into the former president\u2019s mental decline.<\/p>\n<p>The requests, dated Thursday, were sent to Biden\u2019s physician, Kevin O\u2019Connor; former Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden; former senior adviser to the first lady Anthony Bernal; former deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini; and former deputy director of Oval Office operations Ashley Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question of whether former President Biden executed his duties \u2014 and, if not, who in fact did \u2014 remains an investigative focus of this Committee,\u201d the Kentucky Republican wrote in some of the letters to these individuals. \u201cThe Committee remains concerned that you \u2026 were involved in running interference on behalf of the former President and perhaps performing duties exclusively reserved for the President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week, Washington has been dishing over the highly anticipated book by BLN\u2019s Jake Tapper and Axios\u2019 Alex Thompson about efforts by top Biden allies to protect the former president from questions around his age.<\/p>\n<p>Comer, now mulling a bid for Kentucky governor, has long been a chief antagonist of Biden, leading the effort to formally impeach him in the previous Congress \u2014 though the matter never came up for a floor vote.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Comer announced he would continue his probe into Biden\u2019s fitness and use of the autopen to conduct presidential business. Last year, he subpoenaed Tomasini, Bernal and Williams and issued a request to O\u2019Connor that he sit for an interview with the committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer is demanding interviews with Joe Biden\u2019s physician and former White House officials as part of his investigation into the former president\u2019s mental decline. The requests, dated Thursday, were sent to Biden\u2019s physician, Kevin O\u2019Connor; former Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden; former senior adviser to the first [&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-9539","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\/9539","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=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}