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ARTICLE VIEW:
Longtime Biden aide testifies in GOP probe that former president aged
on job but remained ‘fully engaged’
By Annie Grayer, CNN
Updated:
1:11 PM EDT, Fri August 8, 2025
Source: CNN
One of ’s former top communications advisers told the House Oversight
Committee that she watched the former president age on the job but that
he was always in command.
Anita Dunn, the former senior adviser to the president for
communications, is the latest former Biden aide to voluntarily testify
before the Republican-led panel in its probe of the former
president’s cognitive decline and possible efforts to conceal it from
the public.
“While I observed that President Biden aged physically during his
time in office, which is something that happens to every president, he
remained throughout my interactions with him fully engaged and clear in
his directions and supervision,” Dunn said in her opening statement,
obtained by CNN.
To address an ongoing allegation that Biden did not make his own
decisions, Dunn added: “I did not observe White House staff making
key decisions or exercising the powers of the presidency without
President Biden’s knowledge or consent.”
In the closed-door interview, Dunn discussed the decision to not give
the former president a cognitive test, two sources familiar with the
testimony told CNN.
One source familiar with the interview said Dunn testified that
Biden’s inner circle came to a consensus he should not take a
cognitive test, concluding it would offer no political benefit. A
source close to Dunn added that even though the group came to that
conclusion, Dunn stated in the interview that they all felt he would
pass one.
Dunn also discussed the decision to not have Biden participate in an
interview around the Super Bowl last year because of the focus at the
time around the former president’s handling of classified records,
the sources added.
The source familiar with the interview said Dunn claimed the decision
was made because of information in former special counsel , which led
to no charges against Biden but described him as “well-meaning,
elderly man with a poor memory.”
The source close to Dunn pushed back on that characterization and said
Dunn articulated the decision was made for Biden to not participate in
a Super Bowl interview before the Hur report was released, and said the
decision to not do so was because the then-president’s inner circle
thought the main media coverage would be about what Biden did with
classified records and not about his policy decisions.
Dunn had in the wake of Biden’s decision to step down from the 2024
Democratic ticket. Her testimony to the committee comes as the panel
has interviewed top Biden White House aides in recent weeks as part of
its intensifying investigation.
A number of the former aides have sat for voluntary interviews.
On Tuesday, former deputy chief of staff for policy Bruce Reed, and
former Biden counselor and onetime senior adviser sat for transcribed
interviews last week.
Several other Biden aides, however, have declined to cooperate with the
committee’s investigation and, after being subpoenaed to appear,
invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
White House physician , former assistant to the president and senior
adviser to the first lady and former assistant to the president and
deputy chief of staff have all pleaded the Fifth.
This story and headline have been updated with additional developments.
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