Longtime staffer tells House Oversight she does not ‘recall’ events involving Biden

A former top Biden administration aide who voluntarily agreed to answer questions from Congress had little to say on Friday when she participated in a closed-door House Oversight Committee interview.

Ashley Williams, whose work for the Bidens traces back to the days of former President Barack Hussein Obama, had agreed to be interviewed regarding former President Joe Biden’s autopen health scandal.

But according to a source who spoke with Fox News, she mostly had very little to say besides “I don’t recall.”

Ashley Williams could not recall if teleprompters were used for Cabinet meetings, if there were discussions about Joe using a wheelchair, if there were discussions of a cognitive test, if she discussed mental or physical decline of Joe, or if she ever had to wake Joe up

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— Phil Holloway (@PhilHollowayEsq) July 12, 2025

“Examples include she could not recall if she spoke with President Biden in the last week, if teleprompters were used for Cabinet meetings, if there were discussions about President Biden using a wheelchair, if there were discussions about a cognitive test, if she discussed a mental or physical decline of President Biden, if she ever had to wake President Biden up and how she got involved with his 2020 campaign,” the source said.

Williams did, however, claim that former President Biden is still fit mentally and physically to be president today …

She also claimed that Biden’s performance during his notorious debate with then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was just fine …

At one point, the interview was reportedly interrupted by Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who showed up to show support to Williams.

“I do think that it is important that I show up because if they are going to make allegations about the former commander in chief, egregious allegations they continue to wage, I want to make sure that I’m in the room to correct the record because a lot of times they like to mischaracterize things,” she told reporters.

Crockett also reportedly defended Biden’s health:

Jasmine Crockett says Joe Biden was fine, and it’s Trump’s mental health she’s worried about

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— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) July 11, 2025

Williams was the second of two witnesses who appeared before the committee this week. The other was Biden’s former physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who didn’t come voluntarily and had to be subpoenaed.

Speaking before the committee on Wednesday, he, too, had little to say, on account of his invoking the Fifth Amendment every single time he was asked a question.

Three other aides have voluntarily agreed to testify to the committee: Neera Tanden, Anthony Bernal, and Annie Tomasini.

“[Committee] Chair James Comer had requested the aides’ cooperation with his investigation in May, amid renewed scrutiny in Washington of the former president’s mental acuity,” Politico notes.

“Today, we are calling on President Biden’s physician and former White House advisors to participate in transcribed interviews so we can begin to uncover the truth,” Comer said last month.

“In the last Congress, the Biden White House blocked these individuals from providing testimony to the Oversight Committee as part of the effort to cover-up Biden’s declining health. Any continued obstruction will be met with swift and decisive action. The American people demand transparency and accountability now,” he added.

BOMBSHELL: Chairman Comer is demanding testimony from Biden’s doctor and former White House aides over the COVER-UP of President Biden’s mental decline and potentially unauthorized autopen use for sweeping executive actions.
@RepJamesComer: “The American people deserve to… pic.twitter.com/aILT3KEASy

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) May 22, 2025

Read the press release and letters to top Biden aides: https://t.co/482iH27Nwf

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) May 22, 2025

It’s Comer’s suspicion that President Biden was so incapacitated by his health problems that it wasn’t he who’d signed executive orders — that they’d been signed by a veritable “autopen” held by someone else.

“The cover-up of President Biden’s obvious mental decline is a historic scandal,” he said last month. “The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf. Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden’s diminished capacity.”

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