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  Trending Politics: Ian Sams—who served as a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office from mid‑2022 to August 2024—revealed in bombshell testimony before the House Oversight Committee that he had only seen former President Joe Biden in person twice during his entire tenure. The startling admission is fueling renewed questions over who was truly making decisions inside the Biden White House. Sams told lawmakers that in addition to the two face-to-face encounters, he had one Zoom-style meeting and just a single phone call with the president over more than two years. His role involved fielding questions from the press and issuing statements on behalf of the administration’s legal responses—yet his direct access to the commander-in-chief was practically nonexistent. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told reporters Thursday, “This was a huge interview today, and I think it contradicts everything that the former Biden people are saying with respect to the pres...

 Blaze: The Oversight Project obtained damning internal emails this week from the Justice Department revealing a high-level understanding in the Biden administration that the autopenned commutations issued on Jan. 17 in the former president's name were legally flawed. In addition to showcasing former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer's legal concerns, the emails provided by U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin's office reveal that the Biden administration apparently misled the nation about the violent criminal nature of the individuals who received commutations. Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News, "This represents the first written black and white evidence of fundamental disagreement in the Biden camp as it relates to the pardon strategy writ large." "Obviously, this is particularized to the warrants for the commutations of people they never should have let out of jail — but it's the senior-most career lawyer ...

 DC Daily Journal: ... x Play Video Horrifying! - Top Democrat Encourages Trump Haters To 'Slit Throats' Watch on Horrifying! - Top Democrat Encourages Trump Haters To 'Slit Throats' ... The compilation featured Democratic figures like Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell, former Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu, former chief of staff Ron Klain, former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, all claiming Biden was performing at his peak. It also included Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren defending Biden’s sharpness during an April interview on Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso. “He was sharp. He was on his feet,” Warren stated. Several other Democrats echoed the term “sharp” to describe Biden’s mental state, as shown in the video. ...  Biden at his alleged "peak" was still a cognitive mess who should not have been president of the US. Democrats who claimed he was OK should not be trusted.

 DC Daily Journal: ... The House Oversight Committee is diving into a contentious investigation this week, grilling two former Biden administration insiders as Republicans dig into claims that top aides concealed ex-President Joe Biden’s mental decline during his tenure. The probe, led with a sharp focus, targets the inner workings of Biden’s White House, raising questions about transparency that some argue were conveniently ignored under his leadership. On Tuesday, former Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden will face the committee, followed by former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady Anthony Bernthal on Thursday. The investigation isn’t stopping there. The committee has lined up interviews with former officials Annie Tomasini and Ashley Williams, while pushing to question heavyweights like former Chief of Staff Ron Klain and former Senior Advisor for Communications Anita Dunn. Even Biden’s former doctor, Kevin O’Connor, is slated to sit with...

  DC Daily Journal: ... House Republicans have issued a subpoena for Anthony Bernal, former chief of staff to Joe Biden and a key confidant to Jill Biden, to probe whether there was a deliberate effort to conceal the 46th president’s cognitive decline during his tenure. The move signals a continued push to scrutinize the Biden administration’s inner workings, with GOP lawmakers questioning the transparency of a presidency marked by stumbles and missteps. Bernal, described as a fiercely loyal “bulldog” operative and Jill Biden’s “work husband,” informed the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that he would not voluntarily participate in a transcribed interview. ... Republicans are undeterred, demanding his deposition on July 16 to address allegations of a cover-up. “The American people deserve to know if Biden’s team was propping up a faltering leader while shielding his limitations from public view,” a GOP source remarked. Bernal’s refusal to cooperate echoes last year’s standof...

  Federalist Wire: ... In a political storm that could eclipse even the infamous Watergate scandal, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has sounded the alarm on what he calls the “biggest scandal in American history.” Speaking with “My View” host Lara Trump, Gingrich painted a chilling picture of a presidency hijacked by shadowy figures operating behind a faltering President Joe Biden. This, he argues, represents a crisis of constitutional integrity that demands urgent scrutiny. Gingrich pinpointed the unraveling of Biden’s mental capacity as a pivotal moment, likely emerging in 2023, when the president’s ability to lead began to visibly erode. “Joe Biden was no longer there,” Gingrich asserted, suggesting that unelected operatives—potentially remnants of the Obama administration—stepped into the void, wielding presidential power without accountability. This covert transfer of authority, he contends, constitutes a betrayal of democratic principles far surpassing Nixon’s misdeeds. A ...

 Headline USA: Biden Physician Ordered before Panel on Anniversary of Pivotal Debate 'Given your connections with the Biden family, the committee sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to serve from the American people...' This looks appropriate.  Biden's dementia was hard to ignore, yet many in power in Washington sought to do so, apparently for political reasons.  Because of his dementia, it looks like others were making presidential decisions for him.

 National Review: President Donald Trump dismissed former President Joe Biden’s insistence that he “made the decisions” while president, calling his predecessor’s regular use of the autopen to sign executive orders a “scandal” in response to a question from National Review in the Oval Office. Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday directing the White House counsel, Justice Department, and other relevant authorities to investigate the matter, claiming that it has “become increasingly apparent” that White House aides used the president’s mechanical signature pen to “conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.” Trump suggested on Thursday that his predecessor was so cognitively impaired that he wasn’t aware of many policy decisions that were made by his White House relating to presidential memoranda, clemency grants, and executive orders, suggesting that White House aides were making those decisions instead. “He was never for open borders. He was never for...

 I&I: By 2-to-1, Americans agree that the media covered up former President Joe Biden’s mental infirmities, and an even-larger share believe it’s “important” to hold media outlets accountable for failing to inform the public about the former president’s health problems, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows. The poll was taken before the former president was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer on May 16. In the national online I&I/TIPP Poll of 1,400 adults taken in late April and early May, Americans were asked: “To what extent do you agree or disagree that the media covered up Joe Biden’s mental decline?” It wasn’t close, with 56% saying they agreed either “strongly” (33%) or “somewhat” (23%), while just half that — 28% — disagreed either strongly (13%) or somewhat (15%). Another 16% were not sure. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.7 percentage points. ... I suspect the media did it because the media is about 90% Democrats who were trying to protect Democrats in offi...

 Federalist Wire: ... The slow drip of revelations about Joe Biden’s health during his presidency has exposed a troubling question: were Democrats willfully blind to his decline, or were they so entrenched in power that they orchestrated a cover-up? Fox News host Harris Faulkner recently confronted former Democratic Rep. Pat Murphy of Pennsylvania, pressing him on the party’s apparent dismissal of Biden’s fading faculties. Her pointed exchange laid bare a deeper issue—whether Democrats were complicit in hiding the truth or simply too naive to see it. Books like “Original Sin” have begun peeling back the curtain, detailing Biden’s cognitive struggles with stark clarity. One anecdote claims he failed to recognize George Clooney, an Academy Award-winning actor and longtime Democratic ally. These accounts align with murmurs that grew louder as Biden’s term progressed, murmurs that Democrats either ignored or suppressed. GOPAC Chairman David Avella, during the same Fox News segment, not...

 Newsmax: The Trump administration, possibly as soon as Saturday, is planning to release the audio of former President Joe Biden’s interview with then-special counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents case, Politico reported Friday. The Biden administration refused to release the audio of the October 2023 interviews that led Hur not to prosecute, asserting that a jury would find Biden "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." The White House and Democrat leadership excoriated Hur for the remark, accusing the former prosecutor of smearing Biden in a politically motivated attack. However, after Axios obtained and published the audio of the interview on Friday, the outlet reported it’s now clear why the White House under Biden only released the transcript and not the audio. Amid long and “uncomfortable” pauses in his interviews with Hur from Oct. 8-9, 2023, Biden struggled to remember when his son Beau died, when President Donald Trump was first elect...