A take a look at the place investigations into Joe Biden stand

The Home Oversight Committee heard testimony this week from a key Biden official as a part of its investigation into the previous president’s well being decline and issued a subpoena to former first girl Jill Biden’s prime aide after he refused to seem voluntarily.

Biden left workplace in January, however questions on his psychological acuity and decline whereas in workplace proceed to mount after the discharge of audio of his interview with former particular counsel Robert Hur and his most cancers prognosis, drawing consideration to various actions taken in his closing days in workplace and past. 

Here is a take a look at the identified, lively investigations into the previous president and his group: 

HOUSE GOP SECURES FOUR KEY WITNESSES IN BIDEN MENTAL-DECLINE PROBE AS FORMER AIDES AGREE TO TALK

Home Oversight investigation into alleged cover-up of Biden’s psychological decline

The Home Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is main an investigation into an alleged cover-up of Biden’s psychological decline. 

The investigation is wanting into whether or not these inside Biden’s internal circle knowingly colluded to cover the previous president’s declining psychological acuity and used strategies to avoid the previous president when it got here to the issuance of necessary orders, significantly by way of using an autopen device used to imitate the president’s signature. 

The Home Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is main an investigation into an alleged cover-up of Biden’s psychological decline.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)

Some Biden aides agreed to voluntarily testify for transcribed interviews, together with the director of Biden’s former Home Coverage Council, Neera Tanden; Biden’s assistant and senior advisor to the primary girl, Anthony Bernal; former particular assistant to Biden and Deputy Director of Oval Workplace Operations, Ashley Williams; and Annie Tomasini, Biden’s deputy chief of employees.

Tanden appeared earlier than the Home Oversight Committee Tuesday. She informed lawmakers she had “minimal interplay with Biden regardless of wielding large authority,” Comer mentioned. 

“She defined that to acquire approval for autopen signatures, she would ship determination memos to members of the president’s internal circle and had no visibility of what occurred between sending the memo and receiving it again with approval,” Comer defined. “Her testimony raises severe questions on who was actually calling the photographs within the Biden White Home amid the president’s apparent decline.” 

Bernal had confirmed his look for a voluntary transcribed interview June 26. However after the White Home counsel’s workplace knowledgeable him it was waiving govt privilege for the Oversight Committee’s investigation, he refused to seem. 

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Comer has now subpoenaed Bernal to compel his testimony. 

“Given your shut reference to each former President Biden and former first girl Jill Biden, the Committee sought to grasp in the event you contributed to an effort to cover former President Biden’s health to serve from the American folks,” Comer wrote in a letter to Bernal Thursday with the subpoena connected. 

“You could have refused the Committee’s request. Nonetheless, to advance the Committee’s oversight and legislative duties and pursuits, your testimony is important.” 

Comer mentioned the committee “seeks details about your evaluation of and relationship with former President Biden to discover whether or not the time has come for Congress to revisit potential laws to handle the oversight of presidents’ health to serve pursuant to its authority below Part 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Modification or to suggest adjustments to the Twenty-Fifth Modification itself.” 

Williams will testify July 11, and Tomasini will testify July 18. 

Neera Tanden, who served as President Biden’s employees secretary, was the president and CEO of Heart for American Progress  (AP Photograph/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden’s former White Home physician, Kevin O’Connor, declined an invite to sit down for a transcribed interview scheduled for June 27. 

Comer subpoenaed O’Connor to compel that testimony. 

Comer despatched letters to 5 extra prime former Biden staffers, placing his complete outreach within the investigation to 10 folks to date.

The newest spherical of letters are being despatched to former White Home chief of employees Ron Klain, former senior communications advisor Anita Dunn, former prime advisors Michael Donilon and Steve Ricchetti and former deputy chief of employees for coverage Bruce Reed.

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Senate Judiciary Committee

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a listening to Wednesday morning, “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cowl-up Endangered America and Undermined the Structure.” 

The listening to included testimony from three consultants, together with College of Virginia legislation professor John Harrison, Heritage Basis fellow Theodore Wold and a former White Home press secretary from the primary Trump administration, Sean Spicer. 

The conservative Heritage Basis’s Oversight Challenge first investigated the Biden administration’s use of an autopen earlier in 2025 and located that the identical signature was on a bevvy of govt orders and different official paperwork, whereas Biden’s signature on the doc asserting his departure from the 2024 race diversified from the obvious machine-produced signature.

Wold testified earlier than the committee and described the alleged cover-up of Biden’s declining well being a “constitutional disaster.”

Republican senators blasted their Democratic colleagues for boycotting and strolling out of the listening to. 

“I’ll be aware that few of my Democratic colleagues are right here right now,” Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn mentioned Wednesday. “Thanks to Sen. Welch from Vermont for being right here, leaving us with no different choice than to take the boycott of this listening to as an request for forgiveness for his or her function on this disaster.

“We should not flip away from the seek for solutions, and it’s not an overstatement to say that the way forward for our nation might someday hinge on how we select to behave or not act on this very subject.”

Vermont Democratic Sen. Peter Welch and Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin did attend the beginning of the listening to, with Durbin abruptly strolling out after describing the listening to as a distraction and accusing Republican colleagues of being “asleep on the wheel” with different authorized points inside the Trump administration attributable to their give attention to Biden. 

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“Within the final week alone, a number of occasions have demanded this committee’s instant consideration,” Durbin mentioned Wednesday. “The horrific assassination in Minnesota, the remedy of our colleague Sen. Padilla by federal brokers in Los Angeles and President Trump’s unprecedented deployment of the U.S. army in Los Angeles.

“We should always hear at once from Lawyer Normal Bondi and FBI Director Patel about what they’re doing to handle the unacceptable political violence in our nation, together with threats to Article III judges and justices, in addition to members of Congress,” Durbin added. “And we have to hear from the Homeland Safety Secretary Noem concerning the remedy of our colleague, Sen. Padilla, and this administration’s mass deportation marketing campaign in opposition to immigrants.” 

Welch additionally left the listening to after declaring it could not profit his constituents. 

Justice Division investigation into Biden pardons 

Biden used his closing weeks as commander in chief to grant clemency and pardon greater than 1,500 folks in what the White Home described on the time as the biggest single-day act of clemency by a U.S. president.

The Justice Division is reviewing the listing of individuals granted pardons by Biden amid considerations about his use of an autopen to robotically signal paperwork.  (Ting Shen/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

The Justice Division is reviewing the listing of individuals granted pardons by Biden amid considerations about his use of an autopen to robotically signal paperwork. 

DOJ Pardon Lawyer Ed Martin is reviewing the listing of Biden-era pardons granted in the course of the former president’s closing weeks in workplace, together with the one granted to his son, Hunter, and the preemptive pardons granted to Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Gen. Mark Milley, Biden relations and members of the Home Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riots. 

BIDEN ONLY HAND-SIGNED ONE PARDON DURING FINAL SPREE, AND IT WAS HIS MOST CONTROVERSIAL ONE

However Biden solely signed one pardon by hand throughout his closing weeks in workplace, and it was his most controversial, for his son, Hunter. 

Biden issued a number of preemptive pardons of outstanding critics of Donald Trump. (Getty Photographs)

Biden pardoned his son Hunter in December 2024 after vowing to the American folks for months he wouldn’t achieve this. 

Hunter Biden was discovered responsible of three felony gun offenses throughout particular counsel David Weiss’ investigation. The primary son was additionally charged with federal tax crimes over his alleged failure to pay at the very least $1.4 million in taxes. 

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, talks to reporters on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2023.  (Jose Luis Magana/The Related Press)

Earlier than his trial, Hunter Biden entered a shock responsible plea. 

In December 2024, the previous president introduced a blanket pardon that applies to any offenses in opposition to the U.S. that Hunter Biden “has dedicated or could have dedicated” from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024.

“From the day I took workplace, I mentioned I might not intervene with the Justice Division’s decision-making, and I stored my phrase at the same time as I’ve watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” the previous president mentioned. 

Signatures of former President Joe Biden  (DOJ/Getty)

HERE ARE BIDEN’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL PARDONS, MAINLY SIGNED USING AUTOPEN

“There was an effort to interrupt Hunter — who has been 5 and a half years sober, even within the face of unrelenting assaults and selective prosecution. In making an attempt to interrupt Hunter, they’ve tried to interrupt me — and there’s no motive to imagine it should cease right here. Sufficient is sufficient,” he mentioned. 

“I hope Individuals will perceive why a father and a president would come to this determination.” 

Home Oversight investigation into alleged cover-up of Biden’s most cancers prognosis

Biden was identified with an “aggressive kind” of prostate most cancers in Could. 

“Final week, President Joe Biden was seen for a brand new discovering of a prostate nodule after experiencing growing urinary signs,” Biden’s group shared in a press release. “On Friday, he was identified with prostate most cancers, characterised by a Gleason rating of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.

Former President Joe Biden walks on the tarmac as he arrives on Air Power One at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport Could 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash.  (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)

“Whereas this represents a extra aggressive type of the illness, the most cancers seems to be hormone-sensitive, which permits for efficient administration. The President and his household are reviewing remedy choices along with his physicians.”

JOE BIDEN DIAGNOSED WITH ‘AGGRESSIVE FORM’ OF PROSTATE CANCER WITH METASTASIS TO THE BONE

Throughout his presidency, Biden had a cancerous pores and skin lesion faraway from his chest, the White Home mentioned on the time. 

Biden, throughout a 2022 speech discussing air pollution in his dwelling state, mentioned, “That’s why I and so rattling many different folks I grew up (with) have most cancers.”

However Comer has expanded his investigation into Biden’s psychological decline to incorporate an investigation into the timeline of when Biden discovered he had most cancers. 

Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has subpoenaed former President Joe Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, to seem for a deposition as a part of a probe into Biden’s psychological decline.  (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN SUBPOENAED AS REPUBLICANS DIG DEEPER INTO ALLEGED COGNITIVE DECLINE COVER-UP

“Should you’ll keep in mind, Joe Biden did an interview a number of years in the past and mentioned he had most cancers. The White Home rapidly issued a press release saying, ‘Oh, he misspoke,’” Comer mentioned throughout an look on Fox Enterprise’ “Mornings with Maria.” 

“Now, how many individuals have you learnt within the historical past of the world which have misspoke saying that they had most cancers after they actually did not?

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“So, there’s proof on the market that will counsel that there is been a cover-up with respect to his most cancers for a few years, simply primarily based on Joe Biden’s personal phrases.” 

Comer has subpoenaed O’Connor, the previous White Home doctor who gave Biden a number of clear payments of well being. 

Fox Information’ Alec Schemmel and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.