Jill Biden’s longtime senior aide Anthony Bernal was subpoenaed to testify before Congress as part of the House GOP’s investigation into the Biden autopen scandal.
However, he flat-out refused to answer any questions, pleading the Fifth…
Watch for yourself:
Autopen-gate: Top Jill Biden aide takes the Fifth. pic.twitter.com/Xsnkbk2e4X
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 16, 2025
Bernal became the second person called to testify as part of the Biden autopen investigation who plead the Fifth to refuse any questions.
The first was Joe Biden’s physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor.
BREAKING – Jill Biden’s longtime aide Anthony Bernal has just pleaded the Fifth during a probe into Biden’s fitness and the autopen scandal. His refusal marks two of four Biden officials now invoking the Fifth as investigations intensify. pic.twitter.com/vVPICQVLwP
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) July 16, 2025
It’s all very suspicious.
If there’s truly nothing to hide, what are these people scared of?
“Totally the most transparent administration in history.”
Unless you ask a question. Then it’s Fifth Amendment Season.
— The Undercurrent (@NotTheirScript) July 16, 2025
This is what organized crime cases look like… everyone pleading the 5th… basic questions involving clear and cut expected behaviors of people who know the law and how to follow it, but didn’t.
— jasoncloninger (@jasoncloninger) July 16, 2025
After Bernal left the courtroom, he also refused to take any questions from the press.
Rep. Comer — who is leading the investigation — plans to subpoena several other Biden aides to testify, including WH Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, who we recently learned was the guy who approved the use of autopen to pardon Dr. Anthony Fauci.
AP News reported:
“Well, unfortunately, that was quick,” said Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, after the deposition ended. “I believe the American people are concerned. They’re concerned that there were people making decisions in the White House that were not only unelected but no one to this day knows who they were.”
Bernal ignored questions from reporters as he entered and exited the House Oversight Committee’s hearing room on Capitol Hill. He was accompanied by his lawyer, Jonathan Su, who was a deputy White House counsel to the former president. Su in a statement provided to the committee noted that pleading the Fifth is not evidence of wrongdoing.
The former president has dismissed the inquiries as legally spurious. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Biden said that he delegated responsibilities when necessary as president but was actively involved and knowledgeable of all of his administration’s actions, including on granting clemency.
“I consciously made all those decisions,” Biden said.
Comer has has sought testimony from nearly a dozen former Biden aides as he conducts his investigation, including former White House chiefs of staff Ron Klain and Jeff Zients; former senior advisers Mike Donilon and Anita Dunn; former deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed, former counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti, former deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and a former assistant to the president, Ashley Williams.
On Tuesday, Comer also subpoenaed Annie Tomasini, a former White House deputy chief of staff, to appear before the committee on July 18. She is the third former official to be subpoenaed by the committee.
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