It&#8217;s time to talk about the biggest conspiracy and cover-up in modern American history.
No, I&#8217;m not talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
I am talking about the cover-up that was right in front of us that actually does go all the way to the top.
That cover-up, of course, involves the fact that the president of the United States was mentally deficient for several years and that someone else — we don&#8217;t know who — was actually running the country. 
The smoking gun to that effect was presented on Wednesday in front of Congress. Doctor Kevin O&#8217;Connor, who was former President Joe Biden&#8217;s White House physician, constantly invoked his rights under the Fifth Amendment and physician-patient privilege before the <a href="https://x.com/gopoversight/status/1943063181490032905?s=46">House Oversight Committee</a>.
That is insane.
O’Connor was asked about what he knew and when he knew it about Joe Biden&#8217;s health condition, and he pled the Fifth. He was asked if he was ever told to lie about the president&#8217;s health, whether Biden as president was unfit to execute his duties as president, and he consistently invoked physician-patient privilege and the Fifth Amendment.
Exasperated, one GOP rep asked, “Doctor O&#8217;Connor, is it your intention to decline to answer all questions put to you today by the Committee on the basis of the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination?”
O’Connor again stated, “On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based upon the physician-patient privilege and in reliance on my right and the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.”
Okay, this is insane.
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He was claiming, based on two different things, that he would not testify. One, of course, is physician-patient privilege, the idea that you are supposed to keep secret health information that you and your doctor exchange. The doctor is not supposed to talk publicly about that.
But physician-patient privilege should probably not extend to public statements that you make about the health of the president of the United States because you&#8217;re violating patient privilege by even saying that much. If you make a statement that the president is healthy and the president has the following conditions, that&#8217;s a violation of physician-patient privilege.
In any other context, if your doctor went to a bar today and started talking about your specific health issues, even if he said you&#8217;re totally healthy and fine, that would be a violation of physician-patient privilege.
But that&#8217;s exactly what Kevin O&#8217;Connor did. He put out public statements about the health of the president of the United States. Thus, asking him about that should not be an issue.
As far as the Fifth Amendment, which protects against self-incrimination, he was saying that if he spoke, he could find himself in danger of a perjury trap or in danger of committing a crime, which is absolutely astonishing.
Remember, the original question here was, “Were you instructed to lie about the president&#8217;s health at any point?”
That is not a question about the president&#8217;s health. That&#8217;s a question about the lies surrounding the president&#8217;s health. So if he says yes, he might have committed a crime when he told the American people something false or told Congress something false.
We have an explicit amendment to the Constitution that is designed to oust people who are mentally incompetent from this office, which means all members of the Biden cabinet were complicit in the cover-up of his health condition. All Biden cabinet members were complicit in the reality that the president of the United States was not actually the president of the United States. That&#8217;s a scandal. That&#8217;s a cover-up, and requires a much deeper investigation.
It was all out in public view. There was tremendous evidence for it. Yet in 2024, O’Connor said Biden’s mental cognition was “excellent.”
Congress can easily solve this problem. All they have to do is grant him immunity, because then the Fifth Amendment concern goes away. If they say, “Anything you testify on today cannot be used as the basis for your future prosecution,” he can no longer claim the Fifth Amendment because the Fifth Amendment only applies in arenas where you could theoretically be prosecuted for the things that you are saying.
There are also other ways around this. According to the Congressional Research Service, “Under federal statute, when a witness asserts the privilege, the full House or the committee conducting the investigation may seek a court order that 1) directs the witness to testify and 2) grant the witness immunity against the use of his or her testimony.”
So that is presumably the next step.
We already know there was a cover-up. The only question is, who told O&#8217;Connor to cover up the health condition?
Was it Jill? Was it Joe who did that? Also, why was everybody else in the White House complicit in this cover-up? And who the hell was the president of the United States for multiple years?
The American people were lied to. Anybody who was involved in the Joe Biden cabinet that refused to make a move to invoke the 25th Amendment to oust him as president of the United States for mental incompetence needs to be effectively barred from politics forever.
Anyone who&#8217;s a cabinet secretary who rose to that level — the Pete Buttigiegs of the world, for example — needs to be held accountable for not having tried to invoke the 25th amendment, because the American people were robbed of having a president of the United States that they actually elected.
The fact that O’Connor is taking the Fifth Amendment is demonstrative of the lengths to which people surrounding the president will go to maintain their hold on proximity to power.
They shouldn’t get away with it.

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Joe Biden&#8217;s White House physician, Kevin O&#8217;Connor, repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-now-clear-there-was-a-conspiracy-bidens-doctor-pleads-the-fifth-as-gop-probes-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> to answer questions during a deposition before Congress on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the alleged &#8220;cover-up&#8221; of the former president&#8217;s mental state and whether he authorized the use of autopen signatures for major executive actions.
Republicans who lead the House Oversight Committee released video of the closed-door interview showing O&#8217;Connor declaring his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-now-clear-there-was-a-conspiracy-bidens-doctor-pleads-the-fifth-as-gop-probes-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refusal to cooperate</a> when pressed on whether he was ever told to lie about Biden&#8217;s health and if he ever believed Biden was unfit to executive his duties as president.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE: Joe Biden&#8217;s White House doctor, Kevin O&#8217;Connor, PLEADS THE FIFTH and REFUSES to answer if he was ever told to lie about Biden&#8217;s health or whether he believed Biden was unfit to execute his duties as president.
What are they hiding? WATCH THE DEPOSITION 👇🏻 <a href="https://t.co/4OvvCfpLoQ">pic.twitter.com/4OvvCfpLoQ</a>
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&#8220;On the advice of counsel,&#8221; O&#8217;Connor said each time, &#8220;I must respectfully decline to answer based upon the physician-patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. I am not a lawyer and I must follow my lawyer&#8217;s advice in this matter.&#8221;
The video showed O&#8217;Connor, who had been <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-subpoenas-dr-oconnor-over-cover-up-of-bidens-mental-decline/?highlight=o%26%23039%3Bconnor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoenaed</a> to appear for the deposition, did state his name and said &#8220;yes&#8221; as he swore to be truthful in his testimony. Otherwise he stuck to saying he would not be answering questions, including those related to whether he understood instructions. O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s attorney stressed that his client&#8217;s responses would not change.
While the GOP majority tried — and failed — to get O&#8217;Connor to say whether his non-answers were meant to avoid self-incrimination, the Democrat minority pointed out for the record that O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s attorneys had explained to Republicans that responses violating doctor-patient confidentiality might place the witness in breach of his legal and ethical obligations.
O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s attorney read a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> telling House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and the other members of the panel the witness would not violate his oath of confidentiality to his patients, including Biden, and insisted that a &#8220;pending&#8221; Department of Justice criminal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> left O&#8217;Connor &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to assert his Fifth Amendment rights. It was also noted that O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s assertion of his Fifth Amendment privilege did not imply that he committed any crimes.
The video was a little less than 21 minutes in total, but there were breaks in the footage for off-the-record portions of the deposition.
After the interview, a GOP House Oversight aide rejected the claim of doctor-patient confidentiality.
&#8220;Dr. O’Connor would not answer any questions other than his name. Doctor-patient objection would have meant he would have stayed and answered questions that didn’t implicate such privilege,&#8221; the aide said. &#8220;Instead, he took the Fifth to all and any potential questions.&#8221;
Republicans interpreted O’Connor&#8217;s conduct as evidence of there being an effort to conceal evidence of Biden&#8217;s diminishing health while he was in office.
&#8220;It&#8217;s now clear there was a conspiracy to cover up President Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline after Dr. Kevin O&#8217;Connor, Biden&#8217;s physician and family business associate, refused to answer any questions and chose to hide behind the Fifth Amendment,&#8221; Comer <a href="https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1942970278381838547" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X.
&#8220;The American people demand transparency but Dr. O&#8217;Connor would rather conceal the truth,&#8221; Comer added. &#8220;Dr. O&#8217;Connor took the Fifth when asked if he was told to lie about President Biden&#8217;s health and whether he was fit to be President of the United States. Congress must assess legislative solutions to prevent such a cover-up from happening again. We will continue to interview more Biden White House aides to get the answers Americans deserve.&#8221;
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, took the opportunity to swipe at GOP colleagues over the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; that recently passed through Congress.
&#8220;The only person&#8217;s health that Republicans care about is Joe Biden&#8217;s – even as 17 million Americans lose access to health care thanks to their budget betrayal,&#8221; Garcia <a href="https://x.com/RepRobertGarcia/status/1942986945216549149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s deposition took place after President Donald Trump <a href="https://x.com/AlexThomp/status/1942754126707712045" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waived</a> his executive privilege, which also happened for former White House Staff Secretary and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/201-trump-waives-executive-privilege-protection-for-biden-aide-ahead-of-cognitive-fitness-hearings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> for several hours last month and <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1937630075190415551" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> there was an effort to cover up Biden&#8217;s condition. Other former Biden aides are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-officials-to-testify-about-former-presidents-mental-fitness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to testify before the House Oversight Committee in the coming weeks.
Biden, now 82, abandoned his 2024 re-election bid following a faltering presidential debate against Trump amid pressure from allies. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-flails-when-confronted-with-his-role-in-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s &#8220;decline&#8221; and the &#8220;cover-up,&#8221; alongside the former president&#8217;s recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;aggressive&#8221;</a> prostate cancer diagnosis and the release of audio from special counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s interview with him, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-proposal-panel-biden-health-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intensified</a> scrutiny. However, the former president has pushed back on the notion that he did not dictate his executive actions.
&#8220;Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn&#8217;t is ridiculous and false,&#8221; Biden said in a <a href="https://x.com/brittanys/status/1930450375699583244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.&#8221;
Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> a separate investigation into whether aides improperly used an autopen for executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden&#8217;s health issues, suggesting there could be &#8220;implications&#8221; for the legality and validity of the presidential acts in question. Senate Republicans are also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-duck-biden-mental-fitness-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking into</a> Biden&#8217;s mental fitness.

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s physician, Kevin O&#8217;Connor, pleaded the Fifth during a closed-door deposition before Congress on Wednesday.
The interview, part of an investigation into Biden&#8217;s mental state and whether he authorized the use of autopen signatures for major executive actions, lasted roughly an hour on Capitol Hill.
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s attorneys told House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and the other members of the Oversight Committee that their client would not violate his oath of confidentiality to his patients, including Biden. They also insisted that a &#8220;pending&#8221; Department of Justice criminal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> left O&#8217;Connor &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to assert his Fifth Amendment rights.
Comer, who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-hits-bidens-doc-with-subpoena-as-part-of-cover-up-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoenaed</a> O&#8217;Connor to testify, <a href="https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1942958035724370069" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> that the witness declined to cooperate.
&#8220;It&#8217;s now clear there was a conspiracy to cover up President Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline after Dr. Kevin O&#8217;Connor, Biden&#8217;s physician and family business associate, refused to answer any questions and chose to hide behind the Fifth Amendment,&#8221; Comer <a href="https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1942970278381838547" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X.
&#8220;The American people demand transparency but Dr. O&#8217;Connor would rather conceal the truth,&#8221; Comer added. &#8220;Dr. O&#8217;Connor took the Fifth when asked if he was told to lie about President Biden&#8217;s health and whether he was fit to be President of the United States. Congress must assess legislative solutions to prevent such a cover-up from happening again. We will continue to interview more Biden White House aides to get the answers Americans deserve.&#8221;
O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s deposition took place after Trump <a href="https://x.com/AlexThomp/status/1942754126707712045" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waived</a> his executive privilege, which also happened for former White House Staff Secretary and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/201-trump-waives-executive-privilege-protection-for-biden-aide-ahead-of-cognitive-fitness-hearings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> for several hours last month and <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1937630075190415551" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> there was an effort to cover up Biden&#8217;s condition. Other former Biden aides are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-officials-to-testify-about-former-presidents-mental-fitness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to testify before the House Oversight Committee in the coming weeks.
Democrats have dismissed the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s probe as baseless.
&#8220;The only thing extraordinary that came out of that deposition was it was an extraordinary waste of time,&#8221; Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1937542202906857853" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters on the day Tanden gave testimony.
Biden, now 82, abandoned his 2024 re-election bid following a faltering presidential debate against Trump amid pressure from allies. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-flails-when-confronted-with-his-role-in-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s &#8220;decline&#8221; and the &#8220;cover-up,&#8221; alongside the former president&#8217;s recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;aggressive&#8221;</a> prostate cancer diagnosis and the release of audio from special counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s interview with him, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-proposal-panel-biden-health-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intensified</a> scrutiny.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> a separate investigation into whether aides improperly used an autopen for executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden&#8217;s health issues, suggesting there could be &#8220;implications&#8221; for the legality and validity of the presidential acts in question. Senate Republicans are also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-duck-biden-mental-fitness-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking into</a> Biden&#8217;s mental fitness.
Biden has pushed back on the notion that he did not dictate his executive actions.
&#8220;Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn&#8217;t is ridiculous and false,&#8221; Biden said in a <a href="https://x.com/brittanys/status/1930450375699583244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.&#8221;

‘It’s Now Clear There Was A Conspiracy’: Biden’s Doctor Pleads The Fifth As GOP Probes ‘Cover Up’

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New <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">reporting</a> reveals an extraordinary isolation campaign by former President Joe Biden&#8217;s closest aides at the end of his term, with staffers screaming at reporters, changing his phone number, and blocking access from panicked Democrats trying to tell him the truth about his failing campaign.
The revelation appears in the recently published <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/754957/2024-by-josh-dawsey-tyler-pager-isaac-arnsdorf/">book</a> by a trio of legacy media reporters, titled &#8220;2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,&#8221; written by Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey, New York Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager, and Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf.
Pager, conducting research for the book, managed to obtain Biden’s cellphone number in March 2025. The former president quickly agreed to an interview despite his aides repeatedly turning down similar requests from Page for several months.
Asked if he regretted dropping out of the presidential race, Biden said in a dispassionate tone, “No, not now. I don’t spend a lot of time on regrets.” He then ended the conversation to board an Amtrak train, Pager <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">recalled</a> for the Times.
Pager’s brief discussion with Biden reportedly sparked panic among the former president’s top aides. “After the first call,” the authors <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bidens-team-scolded-reporters-changed-his-number-after-they-called-personal-cellphone-report/">report</a> in the book, “furious Biden aides repeatedly called and texted [Pager].”
“One screamed at me for calling the former president directly. Others texted furiously, trying to figure out how I had obtained Mr. Biden’s phone number,” Pager said.
Although Biden himself initially seemed open to continuing to talk to Pager, the reporter’s calls began to go straight to voicemail.
Within days, Pager’s calls were greeted with a message from Verizon: “The number you dialed has been changed, disconnected, or is no longer in service.”
The Times reporter writes that this incident is reflective of the insularity of Team Biden throughout his doomed presidential campaign.
Pager reports that instead of confronting Biden with the harsh reality after his disastrous debate performance, his inner circle restricted access to him, making it difficult for even longtime allies, such as Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, to connect with the president.
On his way to a fundraiser after the debate, Biden asked his traveling aides aboard Air Force One what people were saying about his performance.
Rather than providing an accurate assessment, they offered what witnesses described as a &#8220;sanitized version&#8221; of the situation.
According to Pager, Biden’s aides never even allowed him to meet with campaign pollsters, instead presenting Biden with overly optimistic outlooks that alarmed campaign staff.
Following the debate, campaign pollsters presented their findings to Biden&#8217;s advisers, and their conclusion was damning: all polling indicated that Biden had no path to victory, and voters were not convinced that he was up for the job.
This assessment enraged Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the former president and chairman of Biden&#8217;s 2020 presidential campaign, who reportedly preferred a sanitized version of events.
“Two days after the presentation, Geoff Garin, one of the pollsters, checked in with Mr. Ricchetti. Mr. Ricchetti lit into him and said the presentation was out of line,” Pager reported. “It was not their job to tell them there was no path to victory. The pollsters, Mr. Ricchetti said, were supposed to provide the path to win.”
Rep. Pete Aguilar, a top House Democrat from California, confronted Ricchetti in a heated call, asking, &#8220;Do you realize how bad it is? Has anyone told the president how bad it is?&#8221;
When Ricchetti insisted that many members of Congress still supported the president, Aguilar pushed back: &#8220;Steve, has anyone walked into the Oval and told him we could lose everything?&#8221; Ricchetti admitted no one had.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">The Times</a>, the situation was so dire that reliable Democratic strongholds, including Virginia, Minnesota, and New Mexico, suddenly became competitive – a devastating development that Biden&#8217;s inner circle concealed from him.
When former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) met privately with Biden at the White House during this crisis period, she grew frustrated by his insistence that polling showed no real change since the debate.
At one point, Biden called his longtime adviser, Mike Donilon, to refute Pelosi&#8217;s claim that polls showed he would lose to Trump. Donilon got on the line and reportedly contradicted Pelosi&#8217;s assessment.
Campaign adviser Adrienne Elrod was so concerned that Biden wasn&#8217;t getting an accurate assessment that she contacted &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, knowing the president watched their show on MSNBC every morning.
Days before Biden dropped out, Scarborough aired these concerns, saying, &#8220;The anger I hear are the people who are keeping him in a bubble.&#8221;
Even when confronted directly by donors at a Hamptons fundraiser who challenged him on his debate performance, Biden dismissed concerns as &#8220;one bad night&#8221; and vowed to stay in the race. His closest aides brushed off the concerns as typical donor anxiety.
The controversy over Biden&#8217;s isolation mirrors similar concerns that arose during his presidency, when critics frequently questioned whether his staff was shielding him from unscripted interactions with the press and public.
Throughout his term, the White House faced persistent accusations that Biden&#8217;s handlers were deliberately limiting his exposure to mask cognitive decline – allegations his team consistently dismissed as partisan attacks despite mounting video evidence of verbal stumbles and confusion during public appearances.

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WASHINGTON—Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard established a special task force in April aimed at restoring transparency and accountability to the Intelligence Community, and fixing the broken system that has allowed weaponization to run rampant throughout the United States government.
That task force is named the &#8220;Director&#8217;s Initiatives Group,&#8221; or DIG, and it is tasked with executing President Donald Trump&#8217;s intelligence-related executive orders. According to an Office of the Director of National Intelligence official, DIG includes some of the best and brightest minds in the intelligence community.
So far, the ODNI official shared, DIG has exposed how the Biden administration weaponized the intelligence community against Americans by releasing formerly classified documents showing how the Biden administration targeted political opponents through its &#8220;Domestic Violent Extremism agenda.&#8221;
DIG also identified and terminated intelligence community employees who were using their roles to push ideology, and revoked the security clearances for the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden &#8220;disinformation letter,&#8221; as well as former President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Jake Sullivan.
The task force has also led the intelligence community in locating and de-classifying documents that pertain to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
<div id="attachment_943569" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-tulsi-gabbard-is-draining-the-rotten-intelligence-community/senate-intelligence-committee-hearing-on-worldwide-threats-3" rel="attachment wp-att-943569"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943569" class="wp-image-943569 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Intelligence leaders testifying on worldwide threats (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)</div>
DIG has also finalized plans for organizational changes that it hopes will lead to reducing government waste and saving money.
Gabbard&#8217;s team believes the heavy pushback it is receiving is proof positive that they are on the right track to taking on the &#8220;rotted intelligence community.&#8221;
They aren&#8217;t done, however.
According to an ODNI official, DIG has plans to obtain previous intelligence community assessments of election infrastructure showing the vulnerabilities in the 2022 and 2020 elections.
DIG also plans to conduct forensic analyses of past elections to investigate vulnerabilities in the American election infrastructure, the official shared.
The task force also plans to interview whistleblowers with firsthand knowledge and evidence of the politicization of intelligence, such as the Russian Collusion hoax and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
&#8220;The task force&#8217;s job is to understand how the intelligence community has failed in areas like this, hold accountable those who actively allowed or participated in it, and provide recommendations for oversight that will prevent it from happening again,&#8221; the ODNI official said.
Another DIG plan: to further declassify examples of the Biden administration&#8217;s use of the &#8220;domestic terrorist&#8221; label to help Americans understand how the previous administration leveraged the security state against political dissidents.
DIG also will investigate how free speech has been restricted by looking into organizational and funding links between the intelligence community and the tech sector, the ODNI official shared, and it will also investigate how the intelligence community contributed to United States tax dollars funding gain-of-function research around the world.
These are only a few of the items that Gabbard&#8217;s task force is focused on, the official shared with The Daily Wire. A number of other sensitive and classified projects are also in the works, and when Gabbard can share more, the official said, she will.
The task force includes members of the ODNI, CIA, NSA, FBI, and the Defense Department. All members have Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance, and are required to take polygraphs within 90 days of reporting for duty. The task force is carried out and authorized under 50 USC Sec. 3024, a provision that states a duty to provide national intelligence that is &#8220;timely, objective, independent of political considerations&#8230;based on all sources available to the IC.&#8221;
The official shared with The Daily Wire that ODNI is utilizing its oversight authority, which has never been done before.
Under Gabbard&#8217;s watch, intelligence community officials &#8220;should expect that someone will be actively checking their homework, ensuring analytical integrity and unbiased collection, and compliance with constitutional and statutory mandates.&#8221;

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Here’s Tulsi Gabbard’s Plan To Drain The ‘Rotted Intelligence Community’

Deep State

Director of National Intelligence

Tulsi Gabbard

President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden was &#8220;an albatross&#8221; around the neck of his father during the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a new book coming soon from Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey.
Dawsey, during an appearance on Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;This Week,&#8221; said that Hunter Biden was a &#8220;major figure&#8221; in Biden&#8217;s inner circle during the campaign — and how heavily the first son&#8217;s court case had weighed on the president and his family.
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Hunter Biden was a “major figure” in former Pres. Biden’s reelection campaign, WSJ reporter Josh Dawsey said regarding the reporting in his new book.
&#8220;He would pipe in to calls. He was helping him make campaign decisions. And the president was very concerned about his son.” <a href="https://t.co/9LF549RWtx">pic.twitter.com/9LF549RWtx</a>
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Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Dawsey to elaborate on his claims that the president&#8217;s son had been a &#8220;burden&#8221; on him and his campaign.
&#8220;You also detail how much of a burden Hunter Biden was on President Biden during his campaign,&#8221; Stephanopoulos prompted Dawsey.
&#8220;Right, so one of the scenes in the book is that the President has a big month ahead in June of 2024, he has European travel, he has the first debate with Donald Trump, as you saw, it didn&#8217;t go so well,&#8221; Dawsey began. &#8220;But the thing he&#8217;s telling his friends he&#8217;s plays concerned about is that his son is not convicted in his court case.&#8221;
&#8220;He even offers to testify for his son,&#8221; Dawsey continued. &#8220;And he&#8217;s talking to folks nonstop around him &#8230; about his son, right? And he&#8217;s just constantly worried about him, he said the prosecutors are trying to break him, and as you see ultimately he decides to pardon his son.&#8221;
But what Dawsey really noticed as he did the research for his book was just how prominent a role Hunter Biden had in his father&#8217;s inner circle.
&#8220;He would pipe in to calls. He was helping him make campaign decisions. And the president was very concerned about his son,&#8221; Dawsey said. &#8220;It was one of the things that was an albatross on him as he tried to run for reelection.&#8221;

Joe Biden, Hunter Biden

‘An Albatross On Him’: New Book Details The Strain Hunter Biden Put On 2024 Campaign

'An Albatross On Him': New Book Details The Strain Hunter Biden Put On 2024 Campaign

Hunter Biden

Media

President Joe Biden complained Wednesday that what he was able to accomplish during his time in the White House is “changing so rapidly” under President Donald Trump.
Biden delivered the keynote speech in front of a conference of human resources professionals put on by the Society for Human Resource Management in San Diego. The former president’s roughly hour-long address was his lengthiest public remarks since he announced his cancer diagnosis in May.
“Many of the things I worked so damn hard, that I thought I changed in the country, are changing so rapidly,” he said, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-in-rare-remarks-since-presidency-warns-his-accomplishments-are-coming-undone-18c58c50">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Biden also said he has been advising European leaders on how to handle Trump. The 82-year-old ex-president said that European officials have called him and asked him to get involved in politics again. Biden said he is not involved, but is still talking to and advising U.S. and European lawmakers.
“We strengthened NATO in a significant way,” Biden told the conference, adding that now “I’m getting calls — I’m not going to go into it, I can’t — from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged.”
“I’m not, but I’m giving advice,&#8221; Biden said.
The White House pushed back on Biden’s claims. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said that Biden’s leadership left “America weaker than ever before,” according to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-world-leaders-are-asking-him-for-advice-in-new-trump-era/">The Daily Beast</a>.
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“Absolutely no one is calling Joe Biden for advice because his disastrous foreign policy left America weaker than ever before. Thanks to President Trump, NATO allies have made a historic 5% defense spending pledge, Iran’s nuclear capabilities are obliterated, and our country’s standing on the world stage is restored,” Kelly said.
Last month, Trump scored a diplomatic win with NATO countries, convincing all but Spain to increase defense spending to 5% of each country’s relative GDP. The 5% target <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm">includes</a> 3.5% dedicated to core defense requirements and at least 1.5% on security and defense-related “critical infrastructure,” including strengthening each country’s “defense industrial base.”
“There is absolute conviction with my colleagues at the table that, given this threat from the Russians, given the international security situation, there is no alternative,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-triumphs-nato-bows-to-u-s-pressure-with-5-defense-pledge">said</a> of the increase.

Joe Biden Says His Accomplishments Are Disappearing ‘So Rapidly’ Under Trump

California

Donald Trump

San Diego

Democrat strategists have revealed their latest plan to retake the White House: Project 2029.
Project 2029 aims to create a list of policies for the next Democrat presidential nominee, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/democrats-project-2029.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.3w9n.qKQ9kNPgnL-o&amp;smid=url-share">reported</a>.
Andrei Cherny, a former Bill Clinton speechwriter and Arizona congressional candidate, is organizing the effort through Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a liberal thought magazine Cherny co-founded in 2006.
The name is a play on the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025, despite leftists making it the center of their attacks against President Donald Trump in 2024. Trump repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-again-addresses-project-2025-says-dems-are-engaging-in-pure-disinformation">distanced</a> himself from the project, <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47">focusing</a> instead on Agenda 47.
But Cherny plans to use Project 2029 to &#8220;rally leading Democratic presidential candidates,&#8221; the Times said.
Cherny launched Project 2029 after the failed Kamala Harris campaign. He said Harris failed because she ran against Trump instead of for her own policies, the Times reported.
Cherny told the Times that Project 2029 will release over the next two years in quarterly installments and will eventually be made into a book, like Project 2025.
The advisory board for Project 2029 &#8220;includes Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; Anne-Marie Slaughter, the former president of the New America Foundation; the economist Justin Wolfers; Felicia Wong, until recently the president of the progressive Roosevelt Institute; and Jim Kessler, a founder of the centrist group Third Way,&#8221; the Times said.
Cherny called the group &#8220;the Justice League&#8221; or &#8220;the Avengers of public policy,&#8221; the Times reported. The board will work through policy differences at public conferences.
The Times did not report the project&#8217;s planned policies, but a March 2025 Democracy article, <a href="https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/needed-a-peoples-project-2029/">titled</a> &#8220;Needed: A People&#8217;s Project 2029,&#8221; proposes increasing the minimum wage.
&#8220;Bold, popular solutions like a $25 minimum wage and ending the subminimum wage are just the beginning,&#8221; the article said.
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Project 2029 comes as Democrats are trying to course-correct after the 2024 election.
In November 2024, Democrat strategist Julian Epstein <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-strategist-the-left-has-a-wokeness-moral-condescension-problem">said</a> that the Democrats needed to recruit “better candidates and they need to move back to the center on economic and cultural policies.”
Epstein said the Democrats had become the &#8220;party of wokeness&#8221; and &#8220;moral condescension.&#8221;
&#8220;And what that has done is it has caused the Left to shut its ears and to stop listening to people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it’s made it a lot dumber.&#8221;
In April 2025, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said approval ratings of Democratic leaders have fallen dramatically since last year. In 2024, Democrats in Congress had an 80% approval rating. By that same time in 2025, the number had fallen to 39%, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/holy-toledo-the-bottom-has-dropped-out-for-democrat-leadership-cnn-pollster-says?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Holy+Toledo%E2%80%99%3A+The+Bottom+Has+Dropped+Out+For+Democrat+Leadership%2C+CNN+Pollster+Says">reported</a>.
&#8220;Democrats hate, hate, hate, hate what their congressional leaders in Washington are doing right now on the key issue of the day, the economy,&#8221; Enten said. &#8220;And their confidence has fallen through the floor.&#8221;

Special Screening of “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” in Washington, DC

Panicking Dems Turn To Familiar Sounding Playbook

Democratic Party

Kamala Harris

Minimum Wage

It’s been exactly a year since the disastrous debate that plunged former President Joe Biden into a sea of media trouble.
On June 27, 2024, Biden and current President Donald Trump took the stage to hash it out while America watched. Leading up to the debate, Biden hid himself and his team away at Camp David in preparation while questions about his obvious mental decline circulated among the public.
Nevertheless, the former president — or rather, his team — were dead set on upholding his image. The day of the debate, Biden joked on X that “performance enhancers” were making him feel “jacked up.”
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I don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;ve got in these performance enhancers, but I&#8217;m feeling pretty jacked up.
Try it yourselves, folks.
See you in a bit: <a href="https://t.co/vD3mL9slj1">https://t.co/vD3mL9slj1</a> <a href="https://t.co/Li4EM9mzve">pic.twitter.com/Li4EM9mzve</a>
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1806486230084812937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The debate itself proved otherwise.
While onstage, Biden could barely get his words out, stumbling over himself and letting his sentences trail off all while Trump stood quiet, letting him attempt to speak.
Biden fumbled the topic of illegal immigration, arguing that Border Patrol endorsed him, a claim later refuted by the Border Patrol Union itself.
“To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden,” the Union posted on X.
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To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.
— Border Patrol Union &#8211; NBPC (@BPUnion) <a href="https://twitter.com/BPUnion/status/1806501048724430943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“I’m going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the — the total initiative relative to what we’re going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers,” Biden rambled, his voice muffled.
When the moderator prompted Trump to respond, he nonchalantly said: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
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DJT: &#8220;I really don&#8217;t know what he said at the end of that sentence — I don&#8217;t think he knows what he said, either.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/YoeyJT4753">pic.twitter.com/YoeyJT4753</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1806501841955655733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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After gaffing that there are “a thousand trillionaires” in America, Biden attempted to address national debt, arguing that Trump had the “largest national debt of any president in a four year period.”
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“We’d be able to make sure that all those things we need to do — child care, elder care — making sure that we continue to suspend — strengthen our health care system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person — uh — eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the — uh — w-w-with the COVID — excuse me, with — um — dealing with everything we have to do with — uh — look — when we finally beat medicare —” Biden mumbled before the moderator cut him off.
“Well,” Trump replied, “he’s right. He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death.”
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After Biden struggled to make it through his closing statement, the debate ended. Later, footage emerged of former first lady Jill Biden helping lead her husband, who looked as though he didn’t know where he was, off the stage.
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Jill Biden leading Dementia Joe off stage. Wow…. <a href="https://t.co/aEVn6OVSFH">pic.twitter.com/aEVn6OVSFH</a>
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The media erupted into a frenzy over Biden’s disaster of a performance. Even liberal networks couldn’t defend his obvious blunders, with New York Times Columnist Thomas L. Friedman saying the debate made him “weep” and that the former president had “no business running for re-election.”
Some liberal commentators attempted to salvage a semblance of dignity for Biden. Gen Z political content creator Harry Sisson tried to argue that the debate “wasn’t anything.”
“It doesn’t matter what the candidates say on stage,” he said. “It matters what they would do as president.”
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Biden and Trump just finished debating. The conclusion? Biden is the right man for the job. <a href="https://t.co/ZbSeyFA5ZO">pic.twitter.com/ZbSeyFA5ZO</a>
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) <a href="https://twitter.com/harryjsisson/status/1806535524548546651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He was universally mocked for this, with Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren asking if he was “getting paid triple to lie.”
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Are you getting paid triple to lie about this, Harry?
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The debate marked a significant shift in the Democratic Party, and 28 days later, Biden officially announced his intention to drop out of the race. Former Vice President Kamala Harris replaced him on the ballot, a move that proved to be damaging, as President Donald Trump won both the popular and electoral vote and took back the White House.

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FLASHBACK: It’s Been One Year Since Biden’s Disastrous Debate

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has faced significant resistance from California Democratic donors in recent weeks as she ramped up outreach for a potential gubernatorial run, with some major contributors still bitter about her role in what one called the &#8220;complete s*** storm&#8221; of her 2024 presidential run.
Harris has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-hints-at-future-political-run-im-not-going-anywhere?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Kamala+Harris+Hints+At+Future+Political+Run%3A+%E2%80%98I%E2%80%99m+Not+Going+Anywhere%E2%80%99">testing</a> the waters with trusted supporters as she considers a gubernatorial run, but enthusiasm has noticeably waned among the Democratic donor class, according to a POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/27/california-donors-kamala-harris-governor-00428797">report</a>.
One California Democrat who contributed six figures to Harris&#8217;s presidential campaign bluntly stated that her candidacy would only remind voters of the &#8220;traumatizing&#8221; 2024 election when Donald Trump regained power.
“Kamala just reminds you we are in this complete s*** storm. With Biden, we got bamboozled … I think she did the best she could in that situation, but obviously she knew about the cognitive decline too,” the unidentified donor reportedly said. “I’ve written so many checks because I knew the Trump administration would be horrible, but we’re living in a nightmare because of the Democrats. I’m furious at them, truly.”
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POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/26/california-republicans-kamala-harris-governor-run-00368028">reports</a> that many GOP candidates, eager to face Harris given her damaged reputation, would consider throwing their hat in the ring should the former vice president enter the race.
Democratic fundraisers note that Harris has yet to address accusations from former Los Angeles mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, who alleges both she and Biden&#8217;s Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, another Democrat who has already entered the gubernatorial race, were &#8220;complicit in a cover-up&#8221; regarding Biden&#8217;s condition.
“Voters deserve to know the truth, what did Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra know, when did they know it, and most importantly, why didn’t either of them speak out?” Villaraigosa <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/20/fellow-democrat-tears-into-harris-becerra-bidens-fitness-00361106">said</a> in a statement. “This cover up directly led to a second Donald Trump term — and as a result, all Californians are paying the price.”
Harris has set a late-summer deadline for her decision. She is exploring multiple options beyond the governor&#8217;s race, including a potential 2028 presidential run or establishing &#8220;a philanthropic venture&#8221; outside of elected office, per POLITICO.
“It’s very fair to say there’s not an overwhelming clamor” for a Harris gubernatorial bid, said Scott Drexel, a Bay Area-based donor adviser. “It’s very hard for there to be one if it’s not 100 percent clear if she really wants to do it.”
“She’s going to have to work for the nomination,” Drexel said, “Every day that passes, there’s less of a sense of inevitability about her candidacy.”
Harris has made some quiet outreach, including multiple private meetings in the Bay Area during her visit to headline a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in early June.
These intimate gatherings in supporters&#8217; homes were officially billed as social events but carried &#8220;an unmistakable subtext&#8221; regarding her political future, POLITICO reported.
&#8220;The donors that are here, that have been with her know that this is her home state. She can win &#8230; but they also don&#8217;t want her to find herself in a spot of vulnerability, particularly if someone like a Rick Caruso comes into the race,&#8221; said Todd Hawkins, a Harris bundler dating back to her tenure as California attorney general.
Caruso, a billionaire developer and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate, has been mentioned as a potential centrist challenger who could complicate Harris&#8217;s path to the nomination. Caruso is a former Republican who changed his party registration several times before running as a Democrat in the 2022 L.A. mayoral race, when he lost to Karen Bass. 
One Southern California fundraiser, speaking anonymously, said donors &#8220;realize it&#8217;s just going to bring up the whole pathetic last presidential, which no one wants to hear about again. And then it&#8217;s the whole &#8216;Did you know Joe Biden?&#8217; thing. She still would probably lead, but honestly, no one is incredibly pumped.&#8221;

Former Vice President Kamala Harris

Liberal Donors Trash Kamala: ‘Just Reminds You We Are in This Complete S*** Storm’

gubernatorial race

Los Angeles

Rick Caruso

Xavier Becerra

Ex-White House Staff Secretary and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden was told that executive privilege is &#8220;not justified&#8221; in her testimony on Tuesday for a congressional investigation into former President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental state and whether he authorized the use of autopen signatures for major executive actions.
Gary Lawkowski, the deputy counsel to President Donald Trump, wrote to Tanden on the same day she appeared before the GOP-led House Oversight Committee for a closed-door interview. The letter, <a href="https://x.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1937543246827188731" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by Semafor, said the &#8220;extraordinary nature&#8221; of the inquiry permitted an &#8220;accommodation&#8221; for Congress and noted that the White House counsel was not requesting that an agency counsel be permitted to attend.
&#8220;[T]he President authorizes you to provide unrestricted testimony to the House Oversight Committee, irrespective of potential privilege,&#8221; Lawkowski wrote.
Still, Tanden was advised that she was not given the go-ahead to disclose classified information or any other details that would violate the law or court orders, according to a footnote in the letter.
Tanden is one of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-officials-to-testify-about-former-presidents-mental-fitness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several</a> top former staffers in Biden&#8217;s White House who are scheduled to speak with the House Oversight Committee over the next several weeks. The others include former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady Anthony Bernal, Former Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Oval Office Operations Ashley Williams, and Former Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini.
Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-demands-testimony-from-bidens-doctor-former-white-house-aides-on-cover-up-of-mental-decline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> their testimony, has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-hits-bidens-doc-with-subpoena-as-part-of-cover-up-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoenaed</a> former White House physician Kevin O’Connor.
&#8220;I think there is a huge level of curiosity in the press corps with respect to who was calling the shots in the Biden administration,&#8221; Comer <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1937532798606229520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters before the interview with Tanden. &#8220;So this is the first of many people we&#8217;re going to bring in to try to get the answers for the American people.&#8221;
Lawkowski suggested that executive privilege would be waived for the other former Biden White House staffers and contended that Trump&#8217;s view on the matter is &#8220;consistent with the practice established under&#8221; the previous administration.
In her opening statement, <a href="https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1937557095605502278" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by Axios, Tanden noted that in her role as staff secretary from October 2021 to May 2023, she was authorized to direct autopen signatures for &#8220;certain categories&#8221; of documents — part of a system &#8220;inherited&#8221; from prior administrations. She denied having any further role in the use of the autopen while serving as head of the Domestic Policy Council from May 2023 until the end of Biden&#8217;s term.
Tanden also emphasized that her &#8220;cooperation should not be taken to mean that I think the Committee&#8217;s &#8216;investigation&#8217; is a worthy subject.&#8221; She added that Biden was &#8220;in command as President&#8221; and claimed not to have any &#8220;experience in the White House&#8221; that would raise doubts about his ability to lead.
Democrats have dismissed the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s probe as baseless.
&#8220;The only thing extraordinary that came out of that deposition was it was an extraordinary waste of time,&#8221; Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1937542202906857853" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters.
Biden, now 82, abandoned his 2024 re-election bid following a faltering debate against now-President Trump amid pressure from allies. A new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-flails-when-confronted-with-his-role-in-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on Biden’s &#8220;decline&#8221; and the &#8220;cover-up,&#8221; alongside the former president&#8217;s recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;aggressive&#8221;</a> prostate cancer diagnosis and the release of audio from special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with him, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-proposal-panel-biden-health-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intensified</a> scrutiny.
Senate Republicans are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-duck-biden-mental-fitness-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking into</a> Biden&#8217;s mental fitness as well. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> a separate investigation into whether aides improperly used an autopen for executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden&#8217;s health issues, suggesting there could be &#8220;implications&#8221; for the legality and validity of the presidential acts in question.
Biden has pushed back on the notion that he did not dictate his executive actions.
&#8220;Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,&#8221; Biden said in a <a href="https://x.com/brittanys/status/1930450375699583244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.&#8221;

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday blasted Democrats who accused President Donald Trump of acting unconstitutionally after ordering strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, bluntly calling them out for their hypocrisy.
“Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan &#8230; engaged in several military actions without congressional assent. &#8230; President Clinton followed with interventions in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, the Middle East, and, most significantly, Kosovo, none of which were authorized by Congress. While President George W. Bush sought and received approval of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama’s wars in Libya and Syria went ahead in violation of the War Powers Resolution’s time limits,” National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/trumps-strike-on-iran-was-constitutional/">noted</a>.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) both accused Trump of acting unconstitutionally; Jeffries said Trump “misled the country about his intentions, failed to seek congressional authorization for the use of military force and risks American entanglement in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East.” Schumer barked, “No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy,” calling for legislators to support war powers legislation to block further military action against Iran, Jewish Insider <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/06/house-minority-leader-jeffries-criticizes-trump-for-striking-iranian-nuclear-facilities/">reported</a>.
“A lot of your Democratic colleagues and leadership are saying they didn’t get a call from the president that this was happening,” Fox &amp; Friends co-host Lawrence Jones stated. “Karoline Leavitt said that’s not true, they reached out to them. Apparently, Chuck Schumer answered the phone but Hakeem Jeffries didn’t. What can you tell us about that?”
“I’ve spoken to Hakeem about this; he’s my counterpart in the House, the Democratic leader, and he wasn’t available when they called, and that’s just the way these things go,” Johnson replied. “It is ridiculous for anyone to assert that the Commander-In-Chief, using his Article II power in the Constitution, should have to consult all the members of Congress or even all the leadership in Congress every time he has to make a decisive, quick action. I mean, that would not be feasible. So the idea that they’re saying that what he’s done is somehow inappropriate or unconstitutional is nonsense. None of them ever complained when Barack Obama and Joe Biden used the same authority to drop bombs all over the Middle East, all over the world. It’s entirely inconsistent with their previous actions, and I think we call them on that hypocrisy.”
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The Commander in Chief does NOT need the permission of every member of Congress before taking decisive action to protect America or our interests.   Where was the Left’s outrage when Obama and Biden used the same Article II powers? This isn’t about the Constitution. This is about… <a href="https://t.co/V9mlx4VyN2">pic.twitter.com/V9mlx4VyN2</a>
&mdash; Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1937537466191258082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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