White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused former first lady Jill Biden of participating in a ‘cover up’ about her husband’s health and said she should speak with House Republican investigators who are ramping up a probe.
‘Jill Biden was certainly complicit in that cover up,’ Leavitt told reporters at the White House when asked about a House Republican request to a handful of top former Biden administration officials.
‘Frankly, the former first lady should certainly speak up about what she saw in regards to her husband and when she saw and what she knew,’ Leavitt said.
She teed off on the former first lady when asked about House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer’s request for four aides and former White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor to come in for interviews.
The Trump loyalist and Kentucky Republican is probing allegations launched by Trump and some of his allies that aides were in control of Biden’s ‘autopen’ and shielded the nation from information about his fitness.
If they refuse, Comer is threatening to issue subpoenas – which could trigger a legal standoff if they don’t comply.
‘I think anybody looking again at the videos and photo evidence of Joe Biden with your own eyes and a little bit of common sense can see this was a clear cover up,’ Leavitt said.
‘Jill Biden was certainly complicit in that cover up. There are documents. There’s documentation, video evidence of her clearly shielding her husband away from the cameras. They were just on The View last week. She was saying everything is fine. She’s still lying to the American people. She still thinks the American public are so stupid … And frankly, it’s insulting and she needs to answer for it.’
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Jill Biden was ‘complicit’ in a ‘cover-up’ about President Biden, and said the former first lady should speak to Republican investigators launching a probe
Former Jill Biden aide Michael LaRosa blasted the inquiry, pointing to Comer’s probe in the last Congress of what he termed the ‘Biden crime family.’
‘With regards to Chairman Comer…he spent two years trying to take on the family and came up with nothing. He went fishing in a dry lake,’ LaRosa told Fox News, which posed the inqjiry about whether Jill Biden should participate.
Those who got letters from the powerful committee include Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, former senior advisor to the first lady Anthony Bernal and former deputy director of Oval Office operations Ashley Williams.
‘Jill Biden was certainly complicit in that cover up,’ said Leavitt
The congressional pressure comes after the former president announced he is battling prostate cancer. His annual medical reports that were made public did not reveal screening that can indicate the presence of the disease
The probe comes days after the Bidens announced the former president, 82, is battling an ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer.
‘We wish Joe a fast and successful recovery,’ President Donald Trump wrote after the initial news.
But the news, along with new reporting about efforts by Biden’s core team of advisors to shield him from scrutiny, has prompted a renewed focus on Biden’s health while in office, as well as the role Biden loyalists played.