Then-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Oct. 21, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Of particular interest to committee investigators are the myriad clemency orders Biden signed, including about 2,500 toward the end of his presidency that were executed via autopen.
Biden himself told The New York Times recently that he made every clemency decision on his own. His allies have also blasted the Republican-led probe as a partisan exercise.
Then-President Joe Biden delivers remarks from the State Dining Room of the White House on May 31, 2024. (AP/Evan Vucci)
She also announced she was leaving the Democratic Party in a press release for that book, expected in October 2025.
A summary for her book suggests it is about "the three weeks that led to Biden’s abandonment of his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision."
The announcement was reportedly met with scorn by others in Biden's orbit.
"The hubris of thinking you can position yourself as an outsider when you not only have enjoyed the perks of extreme proximity to power — which...bestows the name recognition needed to sell books off your name — but have actively wielded it from the biggest pulpit there is, is as breathtaking as it is desperate," one former official told Axios.
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Another person told the outlet she "was one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I've ever worked with."
Comer sent a letter to Jean-Pierre in late June asking her to appear for an interview, in which he pointed out she was "a trusted inner-circle confidante" and "near the president daily."
"Your assertion, on multiple occasions, that President Biden’s decline was attributable to such tactics as ‘cheap fakes’ or ‘misinformation’ cannot go without investigation. If White House staff carried out a strategy lasting months or even years to hide the chief executive’s condition — or to perform his duties — Congress may need to consider a legislative response," Comer wrote.
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