Ex-Biden spox undercuts his own claim about former president’s sharpness

A former spokesman for then-President Joe Biden admitted in testimony to Congress in August that surfaced on social media Wednesday that he had met the getting older president just one to 5 instances in additional than two years, regardless of beforehand claiming he was “sharp on daily basis.”

In a July 2, 2024, interview on MSNBC, then-Biden spokesman Ian Sams stated of the previous president: “After I cope with him, he’s sharp, he asks robust questions, that’s the President Biden that so many people expertise on daily basis.

Pressed by the Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform about how typically he had met with Biden, Sams admitted that he had “spoken with him fairly not often” and had “met the president a handful of instances throughout my tenure within the White Home.”

He additional admitted that a few of these interactions happened on-line or over the telephone. Throughout his testimony, he recalled two private conferences with Biden.

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Pressed by the Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform about how typically he had met with Biden, former spokesman Ian Sams (R) admitted that he had “fairly rare contact with him” and had “met the president a handful of instances throughout my tenure within the White Home.” (Getty Photographs; Bonnie Money/UPI/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

Sams served within the White Home from 2022 to 2024, serving as particular assistant to the president, spokesperson and senior advisor within the White Home Counsel’s Workplace.

Sams was pressed on whether or not the premise of his statements about Biden’s psychological health stemmed from his “handful” of interactions with the previous president.

“You stated you may need met him in particular person just a few instances. Are these the interactions you had been discussing while you stated, ‘I am coping with him’?’ a committee staffer requested, to which Sams replied, “Sure.”

“Do you assume that is a bit deceptive?” Sam was requested.

He responded, “I feel it was fairly direct and trustworthy and stated that once I cope with him, he is, you realize, sharp and requested pointed questions in my conferences with him.”

“However you’ve got needed to cope with him 5 instances in 24 months. That is not precisely a substantial amount of information about how he interacts with employees,” the committee official pressed, including, “Do you assume that assertion suggests that you simply work together with him greater than you probably did?”

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Subsequent, White Home Counsel’s Workplace spokesperson Ian Sams speaks throughout the day by day briefing within the White Home Brady Briefing Room in Washington, DC, on February 9, 2024. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

Sams replied, “I do not assume so. I imply, I used to be speaking about my very own interactions with him.”

However, Sams asserted that whereas he “definitely seen some getting older” in Biden, “I had no motive to assume he was something aside from able to being president and performing his duties.”

The Home GOP Oversight Committee posted on its official

“He lied to the American individuals to cowl up Biden’s decline,” the Republican account wrote.

Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., additionally posted on

“Ian was simply studying from a script written by Biden’s handlers,” Comer added.

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Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee, throughout a listening to in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

In a press release launched by the Oversight Committee, Comer additional stated, “The Biden Autopen presidency will go down as one of many greatest political scandals in American historical past. As People witnessed President Biden’s demise firsthand, Biden’s interior circle tried to mislead the general public, cowl up his decline, and take unauthorized govt actions with the autopen that are actually invalid.”

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“Our report reveals how key aides conspired to deceive the general public and the extraordinary measures they took to take care of the looks of presidential authority as Biden’s potential to perform independently waned,” he continued, including: “Government actions taken by Biden White Home employees and signed by autopen are null and void. We name on the U.S. Division of Justice to totally evaluate these govt actions and ban key Biden aides who took the Fifth to hide and scrutinize the cover-up.”

Fox Information Digital reached out to Sams for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.