WASHINGTON — Former President Joe Biden’s longtime spokesman Andrew Bates grimly arrived at the Capitol Friday to be grilled by the House Oversight Committee about the alleged coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline.

Bates, 38, worked as a top spokesman for the Democratic leaders’s 2020 presidential campaign and followed him into the White House as a deputy press secretary.

The Oversight Committee is likely to ask Bates about the frequency of his interactions with Biden over his four years in the West Wing — after a different former spokesman, Ian Sams, testified in August that he spoke face-to-face with the then-president just two times in his own two-year stint.

Bates was a divisive figure among Biden-era colleagues and the press — with fans viewing him as clever and effective and crit

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