(DCNF)—Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said on his show Thursday that he’s interested to see if lawmakers can have former President Joe Biden’s inner circle testify on who used the autopen.
Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Wednesday that lawmakers are requesting interviews from five top former White House officials about Biden’s health. While discussing the former president’s mental fitness on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” co-host Jack Fowler highlighted how White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called for former First Lady Jill Biden to “answer for her role” in the Biden administration.
“It would be interesting to see who, if and when they do bring these people in and put them under oath, if they will testify that they were the ones that put the bill in the autopen,” Hanson said. “I think they can get out of it. They can just say, ‘Well, Joe was right there, and he agreed that I should do that,’ but that’ll be interesting.”
During a press briefing on May 29, Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy pressed Leavitt on whether Trump believes the former first lady should be called by lawmakers to testify about Biden’s decline. In response, Leavitt said Jill Biden had been “certainly complicit in that coverup.”
“I don’t think they’re going to get much out of her because she’s just going to claim that she has spousal exemption and can’t testify de facto against her husband,” Hanson added. “But there was also a Secret Service whistleblower that said Joe went into the closets, and he couldn’t get out. He just wandered around. I didn’t know. My closet’s about the size of a telephone booth.”
Comer said that former Chief of Staff Ron Klain, senior advisor Anita Dunn, former senior advisor Mike Donilon, Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed and counselor Steve Ricchetti were requesting to come in for interviews.
Shortly after Comer’s announcement, President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed a probe into “who ran” the U.S. under Biden’s administration and questioned the use of official documents signed by the former president’s autopen.
“The Memorandum also mandates an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Biden’s purported execution of the numerous executive actions during his final years in office, examining policy documents signed with an autopen, who authorized its use, and the validity of the resulting Presidential policy decisions,” the press release states.
Since the announcement of the investigation, Biden has addressed his use of the autopen, saying the “suggestion” that he didn’t make the decisions surrounding pardons, executive orders, legislation and proclamations is “ridiculous.”
While Republicans have long raised concerns about Biden’s decline, questions from media pundits have circulated since CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson released their book “Original Sin.”
The reporters, who interviewed several sources, wrote that Biden’s mental state had gotten so severe following the 2020 election that aides considered placing the former president in a wheelchair.
Comer sent a letter on May 22 to Biden’s physician Kevin O’Connor and four former senior aides — Neera Tanden, Anthony Bernal, Annie Tomasini and Ashley Williams — requesting transcribed interviews.
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