House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said Thursday that former White House spokesman Ian Sams admitted he spoke with President Biden just two times during his more than two years in the administration � raising questions about who was truly making decisions in the West Wing.

�One of the most shocking things to me,� Comer told reporters after Sams� testimony, �is that he communicated with Joe Biden two times, he saw Joe Biden, talked to Joe Biden � two times.�

Comer added that even former special counsel Robert Hur �spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams,� despite Sams serving as the public face of the White House Counsel�s Office from mid-2022 until his departure in August 2024. Sams left the post to join Kamala Harris� presidential campaign as a senior adviser.

�It raises serious concerns and serious questions about who was calling the shots at the White House,� Comer said. �If the White House spokesperson was being shielded from the president of the United States, who was operating the Oval Office?�

The interview with Sams was the committee�s 11th session with a former Biden aide as Republicans pursue their investigation into what they describe as a coordinated cover-up of Biden�s decline. Comer and other GOP investigators allege that aides improperly used executive authority to maintain the appearance of normalcy inside the White House.

�There were very few people around Joe Biden, especially at the end,� Comer continued, �and that�s when the majority of the pardons and executive orders were signed with that autopen.�

The revelations, Comer suggested, point to a president increasingly isolated from his own staff � and raise the possibility that critical decisions and executive actions were carried out without his direct involvement.

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