Biden aide Andrew Bates arrived on Capitol Hill on Friday morning to testify before the House Oversight Committee.House Oversight Chairman James Comer subpoenaed several top Biden aides to testify on Biden’s mental health decline.Andrew Bates refused to answer whether Joe Biden actually ran the White House when he arrived at his deposition.WATCH:Everyone’s favorite junior Biden staffer has arrived on Capitol Hill to talk about how he covered up his boss’ cognitive decline. pic.twitter.com/kQ7tjQD1nS— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 5, 2025According to The Hill, Andrew Bates lashed out at Trump during his opening statement to the Oversight Committee.The Hill reported:Andrew Bates, a former senior deputy press secretary for President Biden, slammed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigating his former boss on Friday in an opening statement he made to the panel.Bates is on Capitol Hill as one of multiple former Biden aides who have gone in person before the panel for the committee’s investigation into Biden’s mental acuity and use of an autopen. He appeared voluntarily.The former White House official lambasted President Trump in his statement to the GOP-led panel. He said lawmakers are wasting taxpayer money to investigate Biden but turn a blind eye to a multitude of what he deemed offenses being committed by the Oval Office’s current occupant.“As illegal tariffs raise the costs that Trump promised to lower, the sitting president is profiting off of the American people. He has sold special access to whomever bought the most of hiscryptocurrency. He is illegally trying to take over the Federal Reserve, which Republican economists warn will increase inflation,” Bates said, according to his statement obtained by The Hill.Chairman Comer previously demanded testimony from: Biden White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Director of Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, Former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to First Lady Jill Biden Anthony Bernal, Former Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, Former Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Oval Office Operations Ashley Williams.Several Biden aides have pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused answer questions about Biden’s health decline.The post Top Biden Aide Andrew Bates Refuses to Answer Whether Joe Biden Actually Ran the White House; Lashes Out at Trump in Testimony to Oversight Committee appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.