Inside Biden confidante Steve Ricchetti’s ‘combative’ interview in House probe

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A member of the internal circle of former President Joe Biden sat with investigators of the House of Representatives Control Committee to conduct a closed marathon interview, which lasted for more than eight hours on Wednesday.
A source familiar with the Sitdown told Fox News Digital that Steve Richti, who held the position of president for four years from the term of Biden, was described as “combat and defense” during his volunteer meeting.
The source described Rictei as challenging in the face of doubts about Biden’s mental intensity, although “he admitted that they all know that Omar Biden was an issue and they were dealing with it as a political issue,” they said.
The source told Fox News Digital: “Mr. Ricchetti stated that he believed that President Biden has the ability to be president and that he was performing the president’s ability every day. He believed that Joe Biden was able to be president today, and that he could have won in 2024.”
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The former adviser to President Steve Richiti met with the parliamentarian on Wednesday (Getty Images)
Ricchetti, a general and democratic pressure long ago, started working for the first time in Biden in March 2012 when he was appointed as a adviser to Vice President during the era of former President Barack Obama. He was high to be the Chief of Staff Biden in December 2013.
The source said that he described Biden over the past 13 years, and described it as personal relationships with the former first lady, Gil Biden and Hunter Biden as well.
Ricchetti’s children were also close to the White House during the Biden period – at least three of them had jobs in Democratic Management at some point.
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Ricchetti had a relationship with Biden for more than a decade. (Jonathan Ernest)
Ricchetti is the previous seventh assistant for the hands, but only the fourth appears on voluntary terms. Former doctor Kevin Okonor and former White House assistants Annie Thomasini and Anthony Bernal are all the fifth amendment to answer the questions.
Rictei told the investigators that he did not participate in the biden physical evaluation letters of O’Connor, “but he had conversations with senior employees on how to communicate and provide letters of physical evaluation to President Biden,” he told the source Fox News Digital.
The source said that he also defended the repeated Biden factors, describing it as “common mistakes” that anyone can make.
“The frequency of these mistakes has not increased since Joe Biden was vice president,” the source said.
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The majority of the interrogation came during a session of eight hours of Republicans-the source said that the Democrats often tried to change the issue to discuss President Donald Trump.
Richti did not say anything to reporters when leaving the meeting on Wednesday evening.
There were no lawmakers for Sitdown, as usually with these written interviews.
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2025-07-31 00:09:00