The fact that a stream of Biden White House officials refuse to answer questions about what role they may have played in covering up Joe Biden's cognitive decline isn't stopping Congressional Republicans from continuing to subpoena key players. Instead, it looks like they want to up the ante, with some big names being thrown into the mix.
As RedState's Nick Arama reported, Anthony Bernal, senior advisor to former first lady Jill Biden, appeared under subpoena before the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), on Wednesday morning, but invoked the Fifth Amendment and left without answering any questions.
Known as Mrs. Biden's "work husband," and undoubtedly the keeper of many Biden family secrets, Bernal is the latest Biden administration official to clam up instead of 'fessing up to their role in keeping the extent of the former president's obvious decline from the American public. Joe Biden's personal physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, also plead the Fifth during his rather short appearance on Capitol Hill last week, thus setting the trend of keeping mum to avoid be held accountable. As Nick wrote of the very loud silence emanating from Bernal and O'Connor: "If they can't even answer these basic questions, you know there was a big problem."
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Comer isn't taking his foot off the gas, however, and has even floated the idea of subpoenaing Joe Biden himself, although that would be unlikely to yield any results. It's the people around the former president who need to be in the hot seat. You know, the ones that steered him offstage when he didn't know where where has was and, on occasion, appeared to lead Cabinet meetings. Luckily, Comer agrees, telling ABC News on Wednesday that Jill Biden and Kamala Harris "should" be subpoenaed soon.
"Well, I think they should," Comer told ABC when asked if the committee should subpoena Harris and Jill Biden. "They should have already issued statements. They should have already done public relations campaign to sit down and answer questions. They should go on FOX, they should go on CNN and answer questions."
There is apparently a method to the Oversight Committee's subpoena madness—they are starting with lower-level staffers and working their way up to the most senior Biden White House officials (and spouses). And Jill Biden, who perched herself at the tippity top, owes the American people some answers, not just for her role in the coverup, but also for urging her husband to run in the first place and allowing him to babble and wander incoherently on the world stage. At the very least, it's elder abuse. It's certainly an abuse of the office of the presidency.
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And it's no longer just about the coverup, it's also the issue of the autopen. Per Comer, "Now we're moving up to the people that we think told the staffers to use the autopen. So we'll -- we'll see where that takes us. But I think the possibility is very good that -- that we'll be asking members of the family to come in and talk."
As for Kamala Harris, as RedState reported on Tuesday, she is still the Democrat frontrunner for 2028. You know she wants to hold public office again—it was so much fun spending all that campaign money!—but the issue of what she knew, when she knew it, and why she said nothing about it will continue to plague her. It should plague every Democrat candidate, relentlessly and unforgivingly.
Comer's colleague on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), is joining the growing chorus calling for Kamala Harris and Jill Biden to be called to testify.
🚨WOW: @ByronDonalds sat through the deposition of Anthony Bernal — Jill Biden's senior advisor.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 16, 2025
What he heard has him FIRED-UP about subpoenaing ALL BIDEN STAFFERS.
He's even calling for Kamala Harris and Jill Biden to testify.
This is HUGE 🔥 This scandal might go DEEPER… pic.twitter.com/FHSKxdlvH9
They're all going to plead the Fifth, of course, but every single person involved needs to be filmed slinking their way out of the Capitol, looking every bit the DC swamp creatures that they are.
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