{"id":2477321,"date":"2025-08-21T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-spokesman-ian-sams-only-met-former-president-twice-comer-says\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:58:11","slug":"biden-spokesman-ian-sams-only-met-former-president-twice-comer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-spokesman-ian-sams-only-met-former-president-twice-comer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden spokesman Ian Sams only met former president twice, Comer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-spokesman-ian-sams-only-met-former-president-twice-comer-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2477321&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that Ian Sams, a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >prominent spokesman<\/a> for the Biden administration, reportedly met former President Joe Biden only twice in person during his White House tenure, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer. Sams, who was the lead communicator during the House Republicans&#8217; impeachment inquiry, testified in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-jr-i-wont-jump-on-bandwagon-to-cancel-sen-cruz\/\" title=\"Don Jr.: I won\u2019t jump on bandwagon to cancel Sen. Cruz\">closed-door interview<\/a> as part of the committee&#8217;s investigation into concerns about Biden&#8217;s mental fitness. Comer stated that Sams confirmed having &#8220;two in-person meetings, one virtual meeting, and one phone call&#8221; with Biden between 2022 and 2024.Despite his limited direct contact with Biden, Sams frequently defended the president&#8217;s mental acuity publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">special counsel<\/a> Robert Hur,who investigated Biden&#8217;s handling of classified documents and observed memory lapses,spent more time with Biden but did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-atf-nominee-promises-to-give-hunter-biden-gun-background-check-form-to-senate-probe-any-crimes\/\" title=\"Biden ATF Nominee Promises To Give Hunter Biden Gun Background Check Form To Senate, Probe Any Crimes\">pursue criminal charges<\/a>. Sams testified for several hours but declined to answer questions from reporters afterward.The Oversight Committee is also investigating whether Biden aides improperly used a presidential autopen device to authorize executive orders and clemency actions without Biden&#8217;s direct involvement. Additional former White House officials, including press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, are expected to testify as part of this inquiry. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden spokesman Ian Sams only met former president twice, Comer says<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2209227\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-oversight-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Oversight Committee<\/a>&nbsp;Chairman&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-comer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Comer<\/a>&nbsp;(R-KY) said Thursday afternoon that one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden<\/a> administration&rsquo;s most visible spokesmen,&nbsp;Ian Sams, interacted directly with former President Joe Biden only twice during his White House tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Sams, who served as the Biden administration&rsquo;s lead communicator during&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/impeachment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Republicans&rsquo; impeachment inquiry<\/a>, testified in a closed-door interview as part of the committee&rsquo;s investigation into Biden&rsquo;s mental decline. Comer told reporters afterward that Sams admitted to only &ldquo;two in-person meetings, one virtual meeting, and one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-teddy-roosevelt-have-more-than-courage-in-common\/\" title=\"Trump And Teddy Roosevelt Have More Than Courage In Common\">phone call&#038;rdquo<\/a>; with Biden between 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3776917\/eric-adams-adviser-ingrid-lewis-martin-charged-accepting-bribes\/\">Senior Adams adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin charged for accepting more than $75,000 in bribes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3776751\/ken-paxton-court-orourke-pac-prosecution\/\">Paxton moves to block court from &#8216;interfering&#8217; with O&#8217;Rourke PAC prosecution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3776912\/new-york-appeals-court-trump-civil-fraud-penalty\/\">New York appeals court tosses Letitia James&#8217;s $515 million Trump fraud penalty<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White House spokesman Ian Sams arrives for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee. (Graeme Jennings)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;This person, Ian Sams, is the one that would counter everything,&nbsp;Robert Hur, or anytime anyone would suggest that Joe Biden wasn&rsquo;t mentally fit, he would say, &lsquo;No, he&rsquo;s at the top of his game,&#8217;&rdquo; Comer said.<\/p>\n<p>Hur, the former special counsel who investigated Biden&rsquo;s&nbsp;handling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/classified-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">classified documents<\/a>, described Biden&rsquo;s memory lapses in a February 2024 report but declined to pursue criminal charges because of them.<\/p>\n<p>Sams testified from 9 a.m. Thursday until just after 12 p.m., at which point he quickly exited without answering any questions from reporters or clarifying Comer&rsquo;s claims that he only met Biden twice. However, Comer said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give Mr. Sams credit; he answered our questions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Robert Hur spent more time with Biden than Sams,&rdquo; Comer said. &ldquo;When we would ask, &lsquo;Did Joe Biden tell you this, did Joe Biden send you an email himself?&rsquo; Well, no, well, no,&rdquo; Comer recalled from Sams&rsquo;s testimony on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sams worked in the White House from May 2022 until August 2024, when he joined then-Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a>&lsquo;s presidential campaign. A veteran Democratic operative, Sams previously served in Biden&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/health-and-human-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comer argued Sams&rsquo;s testimony undercut his public role. Sams often issued statements and posted online in response to the Oversight Committee&rsquo;s previous investigations into Biden despite not being remotely close to the former president.<\/p>\n<p>The House Oversight Committee&rsquo;s investigation is also examining whether Biden aides improperly used the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/autopen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presidential autopen<\/a>&nbsp;to authorize certain executive orders and clemency actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3435968\/biden-autopen-use-dc-widespread\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BIDEN AUTOPEN USE IN DC WAS MORE WIDESPREAD THAN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Oversight Project, a conservative watchdog group that has obtained National Archives records of Biden&rsquo;s executive orders, the former president used the autopen on at least eight occasions while he was already in Washington, D.C., to sign various executive orders.<\/p>\n<p>At least three additional former officials, including&nbsp;former White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karine-jean-pierre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a>, are scheduled to testify in the coming weeks. Comer said he may announce more names of former aides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden spokesman Ian Sams met Biden only twice, Comer says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2477322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/082125_IAN_SAMS-11.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3620,7734,34350,61677,61719],"class_list":["post-2477321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-biden","tag-comer","tag-former-president","tag-ian-sams","tag-meeting-frequency"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/082125_IAN_SAMS-11.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477325,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477321\/revisions\/2477325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}