Posted on 09/05/2025 8:46:24 AM PDT by bitt
Andrew Bates, a former senior deputy press secretary for President Biden, slammed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigating his former boss on Friday in an opening statement he made to the panel.
Bates is on Capitol Hill as one of multiple former Biden aides who have gone in-person before the panel for the committee’s investigation into Biden’s mental acuity and use of an autopen. He appeared voluntarily.
The former White House official lambasted President Trump in his statement to the GOP-led panel. He said lawmakers were wasting taxpayer money to investigate Biden but turn a blind eye to a multitude of what he deemed offenses being committed by the Oval Office’s current occupant.
“As illegal tariffs raise the costs that Trump promised to lower, the sitting president is profiting off of the American people. He has sold special access to whomever bought the most of his cryptocurrency. He is illegally trying to take over the Federal Reserve, which Republican economists warn will increase inflation,” Bates said, according to his statement obtained by The Hill.
He went on to point out Trump’s acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar, the pardoning of convicted Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted police and the transferring of Ghislaine Maxwell to minimum security facility.
“To my knowledge, none of the above are being investigated. As a taxpayer and private citizen, I feel that is wrong,” he said.
He also criticized the GOP for voting to add $3.4 trillion to the national debt with his passage of the “big, beautiful bill,: which the Congressional Budget Office estimated will add to the nation’s deficits over the next decade, and is now “spending taxpayer dollars investigating Joe Biden – an honorable man under whom the economy performed far better than it is today – while turning a
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I wonder if he actually answered any questions from the Republicans on the panel. Hopefully he met with Biden more than two times in two years. This fact about a previous Biden official was probably never mentioned by any of the propaganda media.
These Democrat snakes know that they can simply attack Republicans, especially Trump, in their opening statements, and that is all that will be covered by lefty publications, such as the Hill.
Is he worried about something?
He wants to talk about pardons. Let’s talk about the man who executed two FBI agents while they begged for their life.
Given that Biden and the Biden Crime Family have no credibility whatsoever, and given that slime such as that always hires semi-beings that are even lower on the usability scale, how much credit does one give to a “Biden aid”?
And lied voluntarily.
So he gave a political speech when being brought in to testify. Big whoop. As if that’s news. It’s exactly what the Hollywood 10 commies did when they were brought before HUAC in the 1940s.
That right there makes him guilty of whatever they want to throw at him.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4338785/posts?page=1
Bombshell memos: Biden aides believed he should sign pardons by hand, he outsourced approval to VP
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/sweeping-wh-autopen-review-finds-scant-recor ^ | September 4, 2025 | Steven Richards and John Solomon
I’m a big fan of John Solomon and Just The News! Thank you for that ping…:)
lol, just so I am clear… The moon battle alert was for the leftist moon bat Andrew Bates!
He has all the leftist talking points down pat and can spout them from memory.
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY:
HOW MANY DOES IT TAKE?
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