Overview

• Annie Tomasini, former deputy chief of staff, pleaded the Fifth Amendment during her July 18 deposition before the House Oversight Committee.
• She is the third ex-Biden official under subpoena to invoke the Fifth in the inquiry into alleged cover-up of President Biden’s cognitive decline and unauthorized autopen signatures.
• Committee Chairman James Comer says the succession of pleas indicates key confidants are shielding themselves from potential criminal liability.
• The committee has lined up depositions for four more former White House aides: Ian Sams, Andrew Bates, Karine Jean-Pierre and Jeff Zients.
• President Biden has denied any cover-up and told the New York Times that he personally made every executive decision, including those signed via autopen.