From Fox News: A top aide to former first lady Jill Biden refused to answer GOP investigators’ questions on Wednesday as the House Oversight Committee probes whether senior ex-White House aides covered up signs of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline.
Anthony Bernal, former assistant to the president and senior advisor to the first lady, was compelled for a July 16 closed-door deposition after missing a previously agreed-upon interview date late last month.
His scheduled sit-down came and went quickly, however. Bernal apparently pleaded the Fifth Amendment to the questions asked by House staffers, a source familiar told Fox News Digital.
“We’re gonna continue our investigation. I think that the American people are concerned,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) said.
BREAKING: Former Jill Biden aide Anthony Bernal pleads the Fifth during House deposition on Biden’s mental competence, a source tells @liz_elkind pic.twitter.com/rDZrPGV8h5
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 16, 2025
COMER says former First Lady Jill Biden’s chief of staff, pleaded the Fifth Amendment at his deposition today @GOPoversight:
"[M]r. Bernal pleaded the Fifth when asked if any unelected official or family members executed the duties of the President and if Joe Biden ever… pic.twitter.com/fXCsH0kQFK
— Marisela Ramirez (@mariselapenny) July 16, 2025
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