Steve Ricchetti was the first member of the "Politburo" to testify this week to the Oversight Committee on Biden's alleged health cover-up and autopen use.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A longtime close aide to President Joe Biden on Wednesday denounced Republican investigations into the former president as “baseless” in testimony to lawmakers and defended Biden as capable of carrying out his presidential duties “at all times.”

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A top Biden White House aide on Wednesday delivered a forceful retort in the face of Republicans’ probe of the former president’s cognitive decline.