Posted on 07/19/2025 9:58:31 AM PDT by John Semmens
Last week, former President Biden's physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor refused to answer questions regarding his patient's fitness to carry out the duties required of the presidency. Earlier this week, Anthony Bernal, senior advisor to First Lady Jill Biden, refused to answer questions on the same subject. On Friday, Annie Tomasini, deputy chief of staff to Biden, refused to answer questions on the same subject. All three of them invoked their 5th Amendment right against self incrimination.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said the "pattern of key Biden confidants seeking to shield themselves from criminal liability increases our suspicion that these unelected bureaucrats exploited President Biden's dementia to carry out policies that he neither approved nor understood."
Tomasini's lawyer Jonathan Su asserted that "since there is an ongoing federal criminal investigation into this matter that could result in criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice against my client and others for usurping presidential powers I had to advise my client to invoke her Fifth Amendment rights. Besides, the former President has already publicly stated that he was fully capable and did order all of the actions taken in his names by his aides and advisors."
On Friday, Biden himself issued a public statement on the matter saying "my aides all assure me that I did instruct them to do all the things they say I told them to do. Since I can't really remember one way or the other I see no alternative but to take their word for it. If it's good enough for--the Commander-in-Chief of America it ought to be good enough for the ordinary folks I rule."
Ashley Williams, Biden's deputy director of Oval Office operations, backed up the former president's take on the situation, saying "like the President, I don't recall much of what happened during my years in the White House. If my coworkers say that the President made all those awful decisions to open our country's borders, pardon all those criminals, and waste trillions of dollars I'll just have to take their word for it."
Where is the Satire?
Good one
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