Another senior aide to former President Joe Biden is set to testify Thursday earlier than the House Oversight Committee as a part of the GOP-led panel’s investigation into what it costs was a “cover-up” of Biden’s mental decline.
The committee has stated it is usually investigating the “potentially unauthorized issuance of sweeping pardons and other executive actions.”
Ian Sams, who served as a particular assistant to the president and senior adviser in the White House Counsel’s Office and later labored for Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign, is showing voluntarily.
Several witnesses, together with Biden’s White House physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, have been subpoenaed after which invoked their Fifth Amendment proper not to reply questions.
Other aides have fiercely defended Biden.
Anita Dunn, the previous senior adviser to the president for communications, stated in her opening statement obtained by NCS, “While I observed that President Biden aged physically during his time in office, which is something that happens to every president, he remained throughout my interactions with him fully engaged and clear in his directions and supervision.”
She added: “I did not observe White House staff making key decisions or exercising the powers of the presidency without President Biden’s knowledge or consent.”
Steve Ricchetti, a former Biden counselor, stated he was cooperating with the inquiry “because I believe it is important to forcefully rebut this false narrative about the Biden presidency and our role in it,” in a statement obtained by NCS and delivered to the committee as a part of his closed-door testimony.
“There was no nefarious conspiracy of any kind among the president’s senior staff, and there was certainly no conspiracy to hide the president’s mental condition from the American people,” Ricchetti stated.
NCS reported last month that Ron Klain, who had served as chief of employees to Biden, advised the committee that former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had raised considerations to him about Biden’s political probabilities as he sought reelection.
Sams didn’t reply to NCS for a request for remark about his testimony.
NCS’s Annie Grayer contributed to this report.