Jill Biden’s senior advisor Bernal subpoenaed in House GOP investigation

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., issued a subpoena Thursday to Anthony Bernal, former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady, to appear for a July 16 deposition.

It comes as part of the committee’s investigation into the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline and potentially unauthorized executive actions.

Bernal had confirmed his appearance for a voluntary transcribed interview on June 26, but after the White House Counsel’s office informed him it was waiving executive privilege for the Oversight committee’s investigation, he refused to appear. 

“Given your close connection with both former President Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden, the Committee sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to serve from the American people,” Comer wrote in a letter to Bernal on Thursday with the subpoena attached. “You have refused the Committee’s request. However, to advance the Committee’s oversight and legislative responsibilities and interests, your testimony is critical.” 

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Comer said that the committee “seeks information about your assessment of and relationship with former President Biden to explore whether the time has come for Congress to revisit potential legislation to address the oversight of presidents’ fitness to serve pursuant to its authority under Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment or to propose changes to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment itself.” 

Bernal is one of five former senior advisors who Comer has said “were eyewitnesses to President Biden’s condition and operations within the Biden White House.” 

The committee has already subpoenaed Biden’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, in connection to their investigation, and he is scheduled to give a closed-door deposition on July 9. 

Another former senior White House aide, Neera Tanden, agreed to comply and voluntarily testified for five hours behind closed doors on Tuesday.

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