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The Supervision Committee of the House of Representatives says that he will cite the best assistant of the Biden family, Anthony Bernal, after the committee said he refused to testify as part of his investigation into the mental acuity of former President Biden and its use of an automatic signature tool that allowed the attendees to sign forgiveness, notes and other important documents in the name of Biden.
“The advance of Jill Biden, Anthony Bernal, is challenging Congress and refuses to testify tomorrow about Joe Biden's cognitive decline after the White House resigned from his executive privilege,” the committee published on Wednesday X published on Wednesday after Bernal was expected to testify on Thursday morning.
“It is scaring. The cover -up is collapsing. We will quote it immediately.”
By power, as the main assistant of the First Lady, Bernal became one of the most influential people in the White House, according to recent reports, and was expected to face difficult questions about what he knew and when he knew about Biden's mental decline.
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The former Biden assistant, Anthony Bernal, on the left, will testify to the Chamber's Supervision Committee on Thursday. (Getty)
“Nobody spent more time, either in the caravan, on the plane, in the private residence in the White House, Camp David, and in both cameras of Delaware, nobody spent more personal time with his family and his family and the Biden family than Anthony,” the Democratic strategist Michael Larroso, who served as press secretary of former First Lady Jill Biden, said Fox News Digital.
Larero told Fox News Digital that Bernal, former special assistant of Biden and deputy director of Oval Office, was a “indispensable” part of the Biden team whose main priority was “protecting the Bidns”, even if it was politically harmful due to a “personal and emotional attachment” that became a more familiar relationship than a professional.
Fox News Digital previously reported On how the book “Original without” by the presenter of CNN, Jake Tapper, and the political correspondent of Axios, Alex Thompson, described Bernal as one of the most influential people in the White House who exercised loyalty as a weapon to eliminate the deserters.
During the pandemia, Biden changed the campaign for the blockade. Bernal and Annie Tomasini, which is expected to testify next month, made their way to the capsule of Joe and Jill Biden, changing the dynamics of power of the so -called “Politiburo” of Biden, the group of advisors who directed the political orbit of Biden, explained the book.
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The then first Lady Jill Biden talks to her main advisor Anthony Bernal before a speech at the Carondelet Palace in Quito, Ecuador, on May 19, 2022. (Erin Schaff/Pool/AFP through Getty Images)
“The importance of Bernal and Tomasini is the degree to which his increase in the White House Biden pointed out the success of people whose loyalty was to the Biden family, not to the presidency, not to the US people, not the country, but to the theology drums,” the authors wrote.
“Their instincts, to hide the ball in often frivolous problems is what finally put them in trouble,” Larroso told Fox Digital about Bunker's “bunker mentality” of Bernal and other assistants around Biden.
“His reflective need to hide and protect was a deficiency and a blind spot and I never understood.”
A former White House employee shot at the accusations of Tapper and Thompson about Bernal in a statement to Fox News Digital earlier this year.
“Many vignettes in this book are false, exaggerated or omit on purpose the views that do not fit the narration they want to boost. Anthony was a strong leader with high standards and a mentor for many. He is the type of person he wishes in a team is incredibly strategic, effective and deeply worries about the people he handles,” said the former White House staff.
The then President Joe Biden talks to journalists at the South lawn of the White House on Monday, September 2, 2024 in Washington, DC, after returning from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Politic reported In 2021, Bernal's management style was seen by some as “toxic” already led to crying employees.
Larosa told Fox News Digital that Bernal has a “big heart”, but acknowledged that he was one of the most “challenging” people with whom he had to work.
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Bernal's appearance before the Committee, if it happens, follows the testimony of former Biden assistant, Neera Tanden, who said he was authorized to direct the highway firms, but who was not aware of who in the president's intimate circle was giving his final authorization.
When Tanden was asked if he ever discussed the health of Biden or his physical condition to serve as president during his time as a superior assistant, even during the former president, widely criticized. Debate performance last summer, Tanden said he didn't. The legislators established a list of names of officials with whom he could have discussed it, and Tanden said “no” to each name, according to a source familiar with his closed door testimony.
Liz Elkind, Alec Schemmel and Deirdre Heavey of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
