Jill Biden aide invokes Fifth to decline testimony in Republican investigation
Source: AP
Updated 1:43 PM EDT, July 16, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) A former senior aide to Jill Biden on Wednesday became the second person to invoke the Fifth Amendment and decline to answer questions from House Republicans who are investigating President Joe Bidens mental state and use of the autopen while in office.
Anthony Bernal, who previously served as chief of staff to former first lady Jill Biden, was subpoenaed for his testimony by the House Oversight Committee. He declined to answer questions, invoking the protections that prevent people from being forced to testify against themselves in government proceedings.
Well, unfortunately, that was quick, said Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, after the deposition ended. I believe the American people are concerned. Theyre concerned that there were people making decisions in the White House that were not only unelected but no one to this day knows who they were.
Bernal ignored questions from reporters as he entered and exited the House Oversight Committees hearing room on Capitol Hill. He was accompanied by his lawyer, Jonathan Su, who was a deputy White House counsel to the former president. Su in a statement provided to the committee noted that pleading the Fifth is not evidence of wrongdoing.
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odins folly
(434 posts)Fuck those people
MLWR
(431 posts)He must mean like Stephen Miller...
berniesandersmittens
(12,240 posts)bmichaelh
(880 posts)Is not Dr. Biden protected anyway through spousal privilege.
These MAGA reps are just stupid.
wishstar
(5,747 posts)Shellback Squid
(9,548 posts)Grins
(8,660 posts)Show me where the American people are concerned one whit about autopen use by ANY administration. Google and try to find out, and you get hit by a mountain of the American people wanting the dirt on Jeffrey Epstein!
I hate it when I hear Republicans mouth off, I believe the American people are
or What the American people want
. Its always used to deflect, not answer a question aimed at their blackened heart, or to push some squat they want to push.
Marthe48
(21,377 posts)in this context, both are used to incite the maga base. The rwnj are debasing both because they don't believe in either.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,151 posts)investigation the right-wingers have ever held, particularly at a time when so many legitimate issues warrant serious investigation. It serves only as more evidence that right-wingers aren't concerned with the people or country they supposedly represent, but only themselves. The best they can get from it is "Ha ha, told ya, libs!"
Meanwhile, whose mental and emotional stability really needs to be investigated, hmmm?
angrychair
(10,920 posts)He isn't president anymore and this line of questioning is not relevant or nah?
vapor2
(2,756 posts)AllaN01Bear
(26,685 posts)
ancianita
(41,183 posts)
Raven123
(6,883 posts)He will never find it
AZLD4Candidate
(6,676 posts)Paladin
(31,123 posts)Orrex
(65,655 posts)What are we to make of their bleating claims that President Biden was the victim of elder abuse?