Jonathan Turley Explains What House GOP Is Up To By Bringing In Biden Staffers

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley explained Thursday why the House Oversight Committee was bringing in Biden administration officials for sworn interviews regarding the decline of former President Joe Biden during his term of office.

The committee began requesting interviews from senior Biden administration officials in May, after Biden’s health issues and cognitive decline during his term in office were detailed in books coming out in the spring of 2025. Turley said that the committee was trying to “lock in” testimony from those closest to Biden.

“What they’re trying to do is lock people into this testimony, as they dig deeper. The fact is we all watched this happen,” Turley told “America Reports” guest co-host Bill Hemmer. “We all watched in the campaign when staffers kept him in the basement, kept him away from reporters. It was clear that they did not believe he could sustain any conversation with a press gaggle. Then it got worse. Eventually, as you know, he would just read from teleprompters. It was as spontaneous and independent as an eye chart. You can see him struggling just to read what had been written for him. That’s quite alarming.”

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“The Constitution allows for a president to be removed in office, but the process is cumbersome. More important, it ignores the fact that staffers have a perverse incentive. If they can keep the president breathing, they can exercise presidential powers and that’s the concern,” Turley continued. “So, the House is trying to lock in this testimony and get a little deeper into the measures used to do this. The impression again is that they would roll out this president for short periods of time just to read from prompters.”

Questions about the use of an autopen, a mechanical device that can replicate a stored signature, to sign documents during the Biden administration emerged in March when Trump declared in a post on Truth Social that pardons issued by Biden to members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol were invalid due to the device’s use.

Further questions about Biden’s health while in office emerged after a May 18 announcement that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that metastasized to the bone. Prostate cancer that has spread to the bone is usually considered Stage 4B cancer with a survival rate of 37% over five years from diagnosis, according to the Mayo Clinic.