(Headline USA) House Republicans issued their latest round of subpoenas to five current and former aides to President Joe Biden as they ramp up their investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings.
The House Judiciary and Oversight committees issued the demands for testimony to former White House counsel Dana Remus, director of Oval Office operations Annie Tomasini, Jill Biden adviser Anthony Bernal, chief of staff aide Katharine Reill, and special assistant Ashley Williams, according to a letter this week from Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.
The aides will be expected to provide testimony on what they knew about the Biden family’s influence-peddling scheme and whether Joe Biden was involved in it, as well as testimony on the president’s mishandling of classified documents.
Comer said his committee has evidence that Biden’s aides were involved in the mishandling of classified information, and that they began inspecting classified material at his private Delaware residency nearly 20 months before Biden revealed they had been found.
Remus, specifically, “began to visit with frequency Penn Biden Center in 2022, where classified materials, including materials related to Ukraine, were later discovered,” according to Comer.
“Therefore, your client is in a position to provide information related to whether, among other things, Joe Biden, as Vice President and/or President, (1) took actions to hide or cover up his improper possession of classified materials; (2) abused his office of public trust … or (3) knowingly maintained improper possession of classified materials related to countries from which his family received millions of dollars,” Comer wrote in a letter to Remus’s attorney.
Comer also made clear the subpoenas are part of a larger effort to establish “whether sufficient grounds exist to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden for consideration by the full House.”
