A longtime aide to Joe Biden sat for a transcribed interview in House Republicans’ probe of the former president’s potential cognitive decline and doable efforts to hide it from the general public.
Bruce Reed, the former White House deputy chief of workers for coverage, appeared before the House Oversight Committee Tuesday as half of the Republican-led panel’s investigation. He’s simply the newest Biden White House official to take action, and the primary of two prime former White House aides scheduled to seem this week.
Former senior adviser to the president for communications Anita Dunn is ready to seem Thursday, and the committee is predicted to carry extra voluntary interviews in the approaching weeks.
During the Biden administration, Reed oversaw a lot of the home coverage agenda in the White House. He had additionally performed a task in preparing Biden for his presidential debate in opposition to Donald Trump – a disastrous event for Biden that ultimately led to his exit from the race altogether.
The panel has performed a quantity of interviews with former Biden officers in current weeks, with various levels of cooperation.
Former Biden counselor Steve Ricchetti and onetime senior adviser Mike Donilon voluntarily sat for transcribed interviews final week. Others have been subpoenaed to seem.
Compelled to testify, White House doctor Dr. Kevin O’Connor, former assistant to the president and senior adviser to the primary girl Anthony Bernal and former assistant to the president and deputy chief of workers Annie Tomasini all invoked their Fifth Amendment proper in opposition to self-incrimination.
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