May 23 (UPI) -- The GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has called on President Joe Biden's physician and former White House aides to sit for interviews as it investigates an alleged cover-up of the former president's health.
"The cover-up of President Biden's obvious mental decline is a historic scandal," Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement Thursday. "The American people deserve to know why this decline began, how far it progressed and who was making critical decisions on his behalf."
Concerns about Biden's age and mental capacity plagued his re-election campaign and the perception of his fitness for office, following a poor showing at a debate against Donald Trump in June, led to his eventual withdrawal from the race.
In the past week, there has been renewed interest in Biden's health after he announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and the publication of books that allege his mental capacity while in office had diminished since his election.
Allegations and conspiracy theories have been made by President Donald Trump and Republicans that there was a Democratic coverup of Biden's decline while in office and that someone else other than the 46th president was making decisions during his term in office.
