Ex-Biden spox who asserted he saw ‘sharp’ prez frequently admits to seeing him twice in 2 years
Former Biden White House spokesperson Ian Sams, who aggressively defended the aging president as “sharp” and vigorous behind the scenes following his fumbling 2024 debate performance, privately admitted to House investigators that he rarely met the 46th president in person.
On July 2, 2024, five days after the disastrous debate, Sams went on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House” and argued that the 46th president’s repudiation of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision illustrated how Biden was keeping up behind the scenes, despite public fears about his cognition.
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“Yesterday, when he [gave] the speech about what the Supreme Court did, he drove that speech,” Sams raved to host Nicolle Wallace.
“That’s the President Biden that so many of us experience every single day, who’s asking the tough questions so that we as staff can be sharp to do our job best for the American people.”
“When I deal with him,” Sams reiterated at another point in the interview in reference to Biden, “he is sharp. He’s asking tough questions.”
Sams’ staunch defense of Biden went viral due to its contrast with the feeble display the Democrat had put on during the CNN debate against Donald Trump.
However, Sams told a different story about his dealings with the commander in chief during his August interview, the transcript of which was released Tuesday.
“The first time I met President Biden personally was in a meeting, maybe in early 2024,” he conceded to House Oversight Committee investigators. “…I interacted with him pretty infrequently.”
When pressed for specifics, Sams said he dealt with Biden directly “three or four times” during his two-plus years in the administration, including two in-person meetings, one phone meeting, and one virtual meeting.
Sams stood by his July 2024 description of Biden on MSNBC and brushed off concerns that his comments were misleading.
“I think it was pretty direct and honest and said that when I do deal with him he’s, you know, sharp and he was asking incisive questions during my meetings with him,” he insisted.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) described Sams’ testimony as “one of the most shocking” he had heard from former Biden aides who answered questions for the panel’s autopen probe.
Sams had been the White House point person responding to Comer’s investigations into the Biden family’s foreign business interests after Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives following the 2022 midterms.
“He was LYING to the American people to cover up for Biden’s decline,” the Oversight Committee’s X account jabbed on Wednesday alongside a mashup of Sams’ seemingly contradictory claims.
Sams was also one of the most aggressive Biden officials to push back against former special counsel Robert Hur’s damning report that concluded a jury would likely see the president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” if he were tried on charges of mishandling national security information.
Sams had blasted Hur’s blistering report on Biden as “false” and rife with “inappropriate personal comments.”
“In fact, [former special counsel] Robert Hur spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams,” Comer told reporters in August following the transcribed interview.
The Post reached out to Sams for comment.
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