Ex-President Joe Biden’s former chief of staff ignored reporters on his way out of an interview with congressional investigators on Thursday after a marathon grilling behind closed doors.<\/p>\n
Ronald Klain served as White House chief of staff for the first half of Biden’s term. He also reportedly played a key role in helping the former leader prepare for what proved to be a disastrous first and only 2024 election debate against current President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Klain sat with staff and some lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee for hours for a voluntary transcribed interview.<\/p>\n
Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., earlier told reporters that the interview was going well just after the session broke for lunch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘I think we’re having a very good transcribed interview. Mr. Klain is being fairly responsive to our questions,’ Comer said.<\/p>\n
Comer is investigating whether Biden’s top White House aides concealed signs of mental decline in the then-president, and if that meant executive actions were signed via autopen without his knowledge.<\/p>\n
Lawmakers who briefly attended the interview, however, called him ‘credible.’<\/p>\n
‘I think he is telling what he knows accurately,’ Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
On the other side of the aisle, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told reporters, ‘He answered every single question. He was fully cooperative.’<\/p>\n
Comer was guarded, however, in response to questions about how much new information was gleaned.<\/p>\n
‘There have been tidbits,’ he said. ‘We’ve asked specific questions. Obviously, evidence emerges on a daily basis that would suggest Joe Biden wasn’t mentally fit to be President of the United States.’<\/p>\n
Klain is the sixth former Biden administration aide to appear for Comer’s probe and the third to appear voluntarily.<\/p>\n
Former White House physician Kevin O’Connor, as well as senior advisors Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal, all appeared under subpoena.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Each also pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions.<\/p>\n
Longtime Biden aide Ashley Williams and former staff secretary Neera Tanden both appeared voluntarily.<\/p>\n
Like the previous five before him, the longtime Democratic operative did not answer questions from reporters either before or after his interview.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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