WASHINGTON — Former White House spokesman Ian Sams spoke with his boss, President Biden, just two times during his more than two years in the administration, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters Thursday.
“One of the most shocking things to me,” Comer said, is that Sams “communicated with Joe Biden two times, he saw Joe Biden, talked to Joe Biden — two times.”
“In fact, [former special counsel] Robert Hur spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams,” added Comer after sitting in on a transcribed interview Sams gave committee staff.
The former Biden official served as a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office from mid-2022 to August 2024, when he left to serve as a senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“It raises serious concerns and serious questions about who was calling shots at the White House,” Comer explained.
“If the White House spokesperson was being shielded from the president of the United States, who was operating the Oval Office?”
Thursday’s interview was the 11th with a former Biden aide centered on the purported cover-up of the 46th president’s decline, which Republican investigators believe may have involved the improper wielding of executive authority.
“There were very few people around Joe Biden, especially at the end,” Comer said, “and that’s when the majority of the pardons and executive orders were signed with that autopen.”
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