Jill Biden’s Senior Advisor Pleads the Fifth, Won’t Cooperate With GOP Cover-Up Probe
The coverup continues.
Former First Lady Jill Biden’s “work husband” Anthony Bernal pleaded the Fifth when asked about a cover-up regarding former President Joe Biden’s health.
The House Oversight Committee wants to know who was in charge of the White House.
Comer asked Bernal two questions:
- “Was Joe Biden fit to exercise the duties of the president?”
- “Did any unelected official or family member execute the duties of the presidency?”
“During his deposition today, Mr. Bernal pleaded the Fifth when asked if any unelected official or family members executed the duties of the President and if Joe Biden ever instructed him to lie about his health,” stated House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer.
Bernal pleading the Fifth didn’t surprise Comer.
“This is a historic scandal and Americans demand transparency and accountability,” added Comer. “We will continue to pursue the truth on their behalf and examine options to get the answers we need.”
Comer told the media the committee hasn’t ruled out criminal referrals: “I think it’s very possible.”
“We’ll see if criminal activity has taken place. But look the tell all books, the interviews, the depositions, the transcribed interviews, everything that we’re gathering thus far,” continued Comer. “It’s not very reassuring for the Constitution or for the rule of law with respect to what was taking place in the White House.”
I won’t criticize anyone who pleads the Fifth. It is their right and does not prove or show guilt. It’s better to plead the Fifth than to say something that could get twisted to implicate you in something that you did not do.
Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician, pleaded the Fifth last week when facing the committee.
Comer said the committee asked O’Connor, “Were you ever told to lie about President Biden’s health?”
We didn’t need any proof, but much has been revealed about Biden’s mental abilities since he left office.
It’s funny. The media hit out at the people around Biden for covering his decline and yet…I don’t see the committee’s investigation receiving extensive coverage.
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How did he get left off the pardon list? The autopen must have screwed up.
its auto pencil time
Adobe Autopen® to the rescue
With Biden it was more like auto-crayon.
In short, this is a wise move by the individual. It was well-known inside the White House (and outside too) that Biden was unable to carry out the duties of the Executive for large chunks of time during his term. At that time, this advisor made several statements to the contrary despite knowing they were false. The probability of him facing charges is real. The chance of getting convicted in DC, negligible, UNLESS he is stupid enough to admit his previous lies. After all, he’s a Democrat.
The process is the punishment.
When is the waterboarding scheduled, and will it be streamed?
Pay per view. I’ll buy an admission and I’m a cheap bastard.
Fixed that for you as it was widely apparent and known that Biden was mentally incapacitated from even before his term of office as evidenced by his Handlers insistence he not be seen in public for any reason resulting in his famous (infamous?) basement campaign.
helping the gop secure the mid terms
dont hear the crowd screaming that but they sure were eager to scream
epsteinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Why can’t they just call Hunter, who has been pardoned, appeared to be quite involved at the end and I understand can’t take the Fifth, because of the pardon. I would also love to see Jill taking the Fifth.
Something bothering me even more about this whole process is the complete absence of any discussion about revising the 25th Amendment, which was designed for this exact situation and appears to have been completely inadequate. IMO this should have been the institutional premise for everything now going on.
The 25th only works when you have people who possess integrity in the President’s cabinet. That was not the case under the Biden administration. Theoretically, the majority of congress could also assert the President is incompetent but then it becomes a political issue and Biden could have been walking around the WH stark naked, screaming obscenities and the D’s in congress would insist nothing was wrong.
And it’s a very narrow sort of integrity. It just pertains to caring that the President is really presidenting. If your integrity on that is shot, you would NEVER give up the cover of “Oh no, Biden is running the show.” But you could be pure as milk on everything else. (Insomuch as that might be possible – which I doubt.)
No, it couldn’t. Not even theoretically. The only way the 25th can be invoked is by the vice president and the majority of the cabinet. Congress can designate some other body instead of the cabinet, but it would still have to be invoked by the vice president and the majority of that body. Congress itself has no role in the 25th unless the president protests his removal.
The 25th wasn’t designed for this situation. It was designed to provide an option for setting a president aside, temporarily or permanently, but it doesn’t require that option to be exercised.
It’s designed for two situations:
1. The president is completely not functioning, and thus is incapable of resigning. E.g. he’s in a coma, or babbling in a straitjacket. In such a situation the procedure is straightforward; the VP and cabinet remove him, he is incapable of protesting, so that is that.
2. The president is functioning but not well, but he doesn’t understand how bad it is and refuses to resign, and the congress doesn’t want to subject him to the indignity of impeachment. In this case the VP and cabinet can initiate his removal, he can protest, and if so the congress decides who’s right. Note that this process is deliberately harder than simply impeaching him; it’s for use only when congress could have impeached him but doesn’t want to because it likes him too much, or because he hasn’t committed any high crimes or misdemeanors and it doesn’t want to lie and claim he has.
It’s not designed for a situation where the VP and cabinet are happy for him to continue as president while someone else runs things in his name.
This is the guy that David Hogg pegged as the major culprit when Hogg got rolled by Project Veritas back in May.
If I understand the 5th correctly, you can’t plead it unless you reasonably believe you might incriminate yourself.
So you subpoena his secretary and give hir immunity.
Negative. The amendment says you can’t be compelled to bear witness against yourself not that you can’t be forced to incriminate yourself. Because you can’t know how any information you provide might be used against you (that is, anything you say might incriminate you, even information you believe is exculpatory), you clam up. This is why the Miranda warning says “anything you say can and will be used against you.”
I don’t think there’s any difference between “testify against” and “incriminate”. As far as I know they mean the same thing, and you can’t know what may incriminate you, so you’re better off saying nothing.
Then why wasn’t the word “incriminate” or “incriminating” used in the amendment? I believe it wasn’t used because there is a difference, however subtle.
While it’s true the prosecution can’t require a defendant to give incriminating testimony, he can’t require from the defendant any testimony, not even testimony the (innocent) defendant “knows” doesn’t incriminate him. “Shall not be compelled to bear witness” is inclusive – absolutely no type of testimony may be compelled. “Shall not be compelled to give incriminating testimony” suggests that non-incriminating testimony can be compelled. The “bear witness” language closed the door to controversy over the meaning the the amendment.
Why should they have used that word rather than the ones they used? The key word that you seem to be ignoring is “against”. To testify against someone means to incriminate him. .
No surprise. They should call Doktor Jill. After all she sat in and even ran cabinet meetings. Perfectly reasonable to call her to testify.
In the near future, I’d consider giving him immunity to testify. I’d rather have the Biden corruption exposed than a criminal trial.
Generally, I agree. But we’re dealing with snakes here. They’re proud of what they did even though they knew it was wrong. Give this guy immunity, and he’ll take the blame for everyone to protect everyone else, rather than spilling the beans.
the dnc treated potus trump and his wife like the ussr and hitsler treated their enemies the whole time the msm sat their greedily and slobbered in their ecstasy over a pro american about to be sent to their gulag
what the actual criminals in the dnc are experiencing is a walk in the park compared to that
well, not a walk in a big city blue park,,but a park nonetheless
Such a surprise. Wait until Jill Biden pleads the 5th.
She can’t be compelled to testify against her husband…..and it’s so simple a legal concept that even Letitia James understands it.
But you may not understand it. Questions about what she did and with whom are not privileged.
But she knows plenty about what other parties were doing, aside from and in lieu of her husband.
She can testify against Bernal and other staff.
Her testimony wouldn’t be against her husband. The whole premise of the hearings is that her husband was incompetent, and therefore not responsible for anything that happened.
Can’t wait to see who in this menagerie of lowlifes is the one who gets a golden ticket with a full bath of immunity! This is a limited time offer and can expire without further notice.
Probably the only time in my life that I wish David Hogg had been better connected.
Does Hogg send a tingle up your leg or is he your everyman? You mention him a lot lately.
I’m a second amendment activist.
David Hogg had a special place on my list before most of you were even aware of him..
Give Bernal use immunity. Go after the big fish, he’s a tadpole. My opinion: this is grandstanding by the GOP who are not serious. A Democrat will punch you in the face, but a Republican will stab you in the back. A traitor can be worse than an enemy. Let’s find out who was really functioning as president. It sure wasn’t Biden who needs help operating a doorknob. I suspect all roads lead to Obama and the Republicans don’t want to touch him. He’s one of the big fish. See how they are handling the Epstein fiasco. Again protecting the big fish. There is only one party with two wings.
But Bernal may in fact BE the boogeyman. Then all you get is Joe Biden, who is already known to be too senile to ever be held to account for anything,
Biden probably has the least responsibility here. Power and authority was seized from him and he probably wasn’t even aware it was happening. OTOH, if Joe did actually delegate decision-making authority to others there would be little to no problem (so long as that delegation had been documented – people can’t just claim that authority was delegated without presenting proof). It’s the fact that power seems to have been unlawfully assumed by unelected players that’s the real problem. Joe would have had no part in that. He either delegated authority to people (even if undocumented) or authority was seized from him.
“Seized”? He never had that power. Why do you think he did a “basement campaign” in 2020?
Yes, “seized.” Of course Biden had that power. He may not have ever exercised certain portions of it, but it was lawfully vested in him-that is, authority was his to exercise whether he ever exercised it or not. It didn’t lawfully belong to anyone else. Because others appear to have exercised power that wasn’t theirs, power that rightfully belonged to Biden, it was “seized” by those “others.” They stole it.
The basement campaign may only be evidence of a plan to seize presidential powers, but that is what they did. They seized/took/stole authority that was not lawfully theirs to exercise. I don’t care if they intercepted it before he used it, it wasn’t theirs to exercise and it never was.
I suspect all roads lead to Obama
Oh, puhlease. Y’all give way too much credit to 0bama. He’s never been anything but an empty suit being used by others. Oh, he’s good at politics, with how to speak and smile, and he reads a good speech. But he was never the brains behind his administration or Biden’s. There’s a cabal behind the throne of the last two presidents.
…Cooperate With GOP Cover-Up Probe
That would be better written as “GOP Probe of Cover-Up.” Your way has “GOP” modifying “Cover-Up”, not probe – making it seem like there was a GOP cover-up of something.