House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Wednesday on Fox News’ “Hannity” that the “odds” of requesting former First Lady Jill Biden to testify in the autopen investigation have “increased significantly.”
On Sunday, Biden told The New York Times that he had granted staff use of his autopen because he was granting “clemency to so many people.” With former aides already being questioned, Fox News’ Sean Hannity asked Comer whether he would consider calling Jill Biden after her former chief of staff, Anthony Bernal, pleaded the Fifth before lawmakers.
“Well, I think the odds of calling in Jill Biden increased significantly today,” Comer said. “We had her chief of staff, her self-proclaimed work husband, there for what we plan to be an eight-hour deposition. He kept invoking the Fifth Amendment and his lawyer finally said, ‘You can ask all the questions you want. We’re gonna invoke the Fifth Amendment on every question.’”
“So we need to know was Jill Biden the one calling the shots while Joe Biden was incapacitated? Anthony Bernal had an opportunity to answer those questions today. He chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment. So I would say her odds significantly increased,” Comer added.
In May, Comer said the committee had called for the depositions of four former Biden staffers and former White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor to answer questions about the influence that officials may have had over Biden during his time in office.
The deposition requests came as questions about Biden’s mental fitness gained renewed attention in the media. CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson released a book in which sources said there were serious concerns about Biden’s cognitive decline — at one point, some allegedly considered placing him in a wheelchair.
A waste of time, she will sidestep and talk around every question.
I think the reality of this will be that nobody talks and all take the 5th. The bigger problem is the situation now brewing after the DNI turned over the Russian collusion hoax to the DOJ. I am hopeful that brings down everyone involved.
She’ll just send very expensive lawyers. Someone in the shadows will pay for them.
It’s what Bidens do.