The investigation into former President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents and concerns over his cognitive fitness deepened on Friday, as a third former senior White House aide invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer questions from House investigators.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer confirmed that Annie Tomasini, former assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff for Oval Office Operations, declined to answer a series of questions during her closed-door deposition, citing her constitutional right against self-incrimination.
“Today, the third witness in our investigation into the cover-up of President Biden’s cognitive decline and unauthorized executive actions pleaded the Fifth Amendment,” Comer said in a statement. “There is now a pattern of key Biden confidants seeking to shield themselves from criminal liability for this potential conspiracy.”
Tomasini has first refused to appear before the committee, which resulted in the subpoena compelling her attendance.
According to Comer, Tomasini repeatedly invoked the Fifth when pressed on whether she had ever been instructed to mislead the public about Biden’s health or participated in concealing classified materials found at the president’s home or office. She also refused to answer questions about her involvement in managing classified documents discovered at the Penn Biden Center, including an early visit there before the public timeline acknowledged by the White House.
Tomasini joins Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s longtime personal physician, and senior advisor Anthony Bernal, both of whom also pleaded the Fifth earlier this month when questioned by the Oversight Committee.
The House investigation is examining whether top Biden aides participated in efforts to hide the president’s cognitive decline from the public and to obscure the circumstances surrounding the discovery of classified documents at multiple locations connected to Biden, including his Delaware residence and former Washington, DC office.
“It’s unbelievable that Ms. Tomasini and others refuse to answer basic questions about President Biden’s fitness to serve,” Comer said. “It’s apparent they would rather hide key information to protect themselves and Joe Biden than be truthful with the American people about this historic scandal.”
The Biden White House previously dismissed the GOP-led probe as politically motivated. However, Comer and committee Republicans point to what they describe as a “protective bubble” created by Biden’s closest aides, including Tomasini, Bernal, and Ashley Williams, to insulate the president from scrutiny.
The investigation remains ongoing, with Comer vowing to “continue to pursue the truth and examine options to get the answers we need.”
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released the video of Annie Tomasini’s deposition:
Can’t we all just moveon.org?
No surprise there.
These people’s indecency allowed a person to stay in office who was a danger to our survival. Every American has an obligation to protect our country at all cost. These people failed us completely. They need locked up. Makes me wonder who exactly had the nuclear code.??
Female Mob boss ….. Democrat Party diversity!
“It’s unbelievable that Ms. Tomasini and others refuse to answer basic questions about President Biden’s fitness to serve,” Comer said. “It’s apparent they would rather hide key information to protect themselves and Joe Biden than be truthful with the American people about this historic scandal.”
Yeah, it’s not like Hillary is waiting in the wings….
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The 5th is a valuable Constitutional right.
What is interesting is how everyone involved all go there.
They are going to jail. They were not smart enough to cover their tracks. Drunk on power like our own legislators.
So just what will it take for the Biden Harris supporters to realize they were duped by a corrupt administration.
They can’t allow themselves to come to that realization. The psychological foundation of Leftist/Socialist thought is what imprisons them (and unfortunately often everybody else through coercion and force if they ever fully succeed) and it is created by consistently and constantly engaging in self-deception; ie lying to themselves. This has been written about by many, but I think Hannah Arendt (writing about this aspect of Nazi fascist socialism) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (writing about this aspect of Soviet communist socialism) are the most insightful regarding the 20th century.
Fat chance. Where’s Whidbey? Must be in meltdown as the truth is unveiled.
I hear that he was last seen so frantically chasing his own tail that he melted down into a pool of butter (or soy-based imitation butter food spread, more likely).
I miss Sambos.
Whidby has no conscience so unfortunately I doubt he is melting down.
And this when it’s all over the news about the indecency of the current administration? I guess we Alaskans are satisfied within our bubble of ignorance. If we ignore it, it’ll just go away and we can keep nattering about how abnormal a seeming ‘normality’ was for four years.
You can run, all you radical leftist quislings and sycophants, but you can’t hide from the truth that PotatoHead Biden was an illegitimate usurper with serious senile dementia, and was never really in charge of anything, letting an unelected globalist cabal run the country for four years while he was ceremonially propped-up and drugged-up to occasionally mouth the appropriate platitudes.
So, Jefferson, this is how the justifications for the current administration blitz of nitrogenous fertilizer is spread all over the cornfields … by bald-faced lies from folks standing on their noggins while making up lies about people like President Joe Biden? Yelling from the soles of their holey shoes? Because it is evident at the very least, if these folks deal in reality much, one would have to acknowledge it is quite a special viewpoint about the brilliance and integrity of the current administration, and those so enamored are among those of a very special and select minority of special group of people, and not the majority of decent Americans. People whose blood remains partially unoxygenated, congealing in the cranial vault while the rest of it flows through their feet.
Mrs N. President Joe the meat head was the worst president in US history. He accomplished nothing but damage. So take a Valium and go chill. As your hero Obama once said if you want something f—-d up call Joe.
Is it just me or does Tomasini seem like one of the women that were tried and hanged for their role in 1940’s concentration camp management? Cool as a lizard under fire and likely to have a little dirt under the nails.