Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced House investigators this week and testified that high-level officials covered up Joe Biden’s mental decline.
Jean-Pierre, who worked alongside Biden from his vice presidency through the end of his presidency in January, admitted behind closed doors that the former president was “not the same speaker he was when she met him.”
She told lawmakers she did not know why his speaking ability changed and said she never asked him.
Five Hours Of Closed-Door Testimony
The former press secretary, who left the Democratic Party earlier this year, sat for nearly five hours of questioning before the House Oversight Committee.
She declined to speak with reporters either entering or leaving the Capitol Hill session.
During her testimony, Jean-Pierre revealed that talking points about Biden’s health and mental acuity were controlled at the highest levels of the White House.
Jean-Pierre testified that the cover-up of Biden’s declining health and mental acuity was “handled exclusively at the senior level.”
She also admitted her briefing binder contained pre-written lines from senior advisors.
Those lines included the now-infamous “cheap fakes” defense to accuse critics of digitally manipulating videos of Biden that were actually real.
Jean-Pierre said she did not know who inserted those talking points and never personally spoke with White House staff concerned about Biden’s health.
Yet in public, she was one of Biden’s most visible defenders.
After Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate against then-candidate Donald Trump, Jean-Pierre claimed Biden simply had a cold.
She then insisted Biden was “as sharp as ever.”
Cover-Up Allegations Grow
Republicans say Jean-Pierre’s testimony confirms what Americans long suspected: Biden’s aides shielded the public from the truth about his decline.
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) said earlier this week that the committee is nearing the conclusion of its investigation into Biden’s use of the autopen.
The probe is focused on whether executive orders and pardons were signed without Biden’s full awareness.
“When people in the Department of Justice are emailing staff and asking, ‘Does the president even know who they just pardoned?’ — that’s very concerning,” Comer said.
Even the Merrick Garland DOJ reportedly raised alarms about the practice.
Comer said one of the central questions now is whether those executive actions were even legal.
From Defender To Outsider
Jean-Pierre began her role as White House press secretary in 2022 after Jen Psaki’s departure, serving until the end of Biden’s term.
However, her relationship with Biden-world soured after she announced she was leaving the Democratic Party in a press release for her upcoming tell-all book, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.”
Now, her testimony puts her at odds with her old bosses.
Her revelations raise new questions about how far Biden’s handlers went to mask his decline from the public, Congress, and even his own Cabinet.
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