House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said Thursday that former White House spokesman Ian Sams spoke directly with former President Biden only twice during his more than two years in the administration.
“One of the most shocking things to me,” Comer told reporters, is that Sams “communicated with Joe Biden two times, he saw Joe Biden, talked to Joe Biden — two times.”
Comer added that even former special counsel Robert Hur “spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams,” citing Sams’ transcribed interview with committee staff.
The former Biden aide served as spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office from mid-2022 until August 2024, when he departed to become a senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“It raises serious concerns and serious questions about who was calling shots at the White House,” Comer explained.
“If the White House spokesperson was being shielded from the president of the United States, who was operating the Oval Office?”
“There were very few people around Joe Biden, especially at the end,” Comer said, “and that’s when the majority of the pardons and executive orders were signed with that autopen.”
🚨 Ian Sams, a top Biden White House spokesman, just admitted to Congress he barely ever interacted with Joe Biden—yet he was the loudest voice insisting Joe was “fit.”
Ian parroted talking points from Biden’s handlers, not firsthand experience. pic.twitter.com/ySil6MPcg5
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) August 21, 2025
More over at The New York Post:
Ex-Biden White House spokesman says he only saw 46th president twice in two-plus years of service https://t.co/2sQPIiNrb0 pic.twitter.com/Ew0DhIb1YS
— New York Post (@nypost) August 21, 2025
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