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One of the top spokesmen for former President Joe Biden dismissed a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee that lasted more than five hours in a disastrous debate performance in June 2024.
Andrew Bates served as senior deputy press secretary of the White House and worked for nearly the entire term in Biden’s communications store. Donald Trump A source familiar with his interview said it was “exaggerated”.
Sources said Bates “finally agreed to President Biden’s decision to withdraw”, and he chose to withdraw from re-election after reviewing Biden’s voting data for a week.
However, sources close to Bates said he agreed that Biden made the right decision after he had time to deal with the then-president’s decision and a public investigation in the last week of Biden’s campaign.
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Then-President Joe Biden spoke on May 17, 2024 at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
but Previous Biden allies In their closed interview.
The former spokesperson also described relatively frequent interactions with Biden, who allegedly met with his news team only a few times a year.
“He will see President Biden once a month, but it may be anything from traveling, going to the hills with him or just seeing him in the corridor,” the first source said.
However, a former Biden White House staffer believes that the press secretary and communications director are the default representatives of the news and communications team, with the president’s daily meetings.
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Former White House spokesman Andrew Bates appeared before the House Oversight Committee on March 28, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
Bates also allegedly told investigators that he supported forgiveness and controversial pardons. Biden, Hunter At the end of the presidency.
However, a second source said Bates told investigators that Biden had performed “gloriously” on “gloriously.” When asked whether any action was taken to benefit his son’s business deal.
The House Oversight Committee is particularly interested in pardons and hundreds of leniency orders.
Oversight Committee Republicans are investigating whether Biden’s top White House allies have masked signs of a former president’s spiritual decline and are looking at whether executive actions to be carried out under Biden’s comprehensive awareness and recognition.
Biden himself told New York Times Recently, he has made every lenient decision himself.
His allies also slam Republican-led investigations as partisan exercises.
Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will be the next ex-Ed to appear and will be interviewed on September 12. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
In his opening speech received by Fox News Digital, Bates defended Biden’s office fitness while criticizing Trump’s own actions as president.
“I am proud to support Joe Biden as president because we believe in the same values. In the White House, it is generally understood that Joe Biden is responsible. This is exactly in line with my personal experience as president,” Bates told House investigators.
A House Oversight Committee spokesman blows up Bates as a “difference” and accuses him of revealing a media opening statement.
Fox News Digital reached out to Bates through its public relations firm Wolfpack strategy and his attorneys for further comment.
