“No Wall of words … no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.” —George Washington (1789)
Three months ago, in “Who Were Biden’s Autopen Puppeteers?,” I noted that Donald Trump and congressional Republicans were officially asking a very important question: Who was actually in charge when Joe Biden was in office?
Trump had previously raised the issue in March, laying the groundwork for an investigation. As The Wall Street Journal put it, “Congress should get to the bottom of the ‘Politburo’ that governed while the president declined.”
In June, Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate whether Biden’s handlers “abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.”
Actually, we now know there were three Biden autopens. Trump’s order noted: “This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history. The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts.”
A rebuttal statement attributed to Biden was unequivocal in its denial: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.” And it then attempted a diversion: “This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and congressional Republicans who are working to push disastrous legislation that would cut essential programs like Medicaid and raise costs on American families, all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations.”
I have no idea who authored that denial, but it was not Biden — it is much too lucid.
Trump’s order was supported by Special Counsel Robert Hur’s February 2024 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents, in which Hur concluded that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed” classified information but should not be prosecuted because he is a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” I detailed his report that month, asserting that Demo delegates would eventually dump Biden.
That seemed obvious to our team, and in fact, 16 months earlier, in October 2022, I stepped way off the prognostication reservation and asserted, “It’s Official — Biden Will (NOT) Be the Demo Nominee in 2024.”
Of course, we had been pondering “the ‘Politburo’ that governed while the president declined” long before October 2022. I thought perhaps Biden would resign and turn the Oval Office over to Kamala Harris shortly after taking office in 2021.
But as I had written previously about political leaders whose cognitive expiration dates had long expired, Biden’s sycophantic handlers, his puppeteers, had consolidated a lot of proximity power. If they did not prop him up to complete his term, like the old Soviet Union leaders were propped up by their party power brokers, his puppeteers would abdicate their power.
Thus, I believe Biden’s handlers vigorously resisted allowing him to resign after his election in 2021.
Astoundingly, they also refused to let him withdraw as a candidate for a second presidential term in 2024, despite his increasing mental incapacitation. They refused, that is, until it became patently obvious to all Americans after the first presidential debate with Trump that Biden was just a shell. He was then forced to vacate his 2024 reelection campaign.
Of course, that was after the Democrat primaries, during which Biden had run unopposed except for the quixotic candidacies of then-Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and moonbat author Marianne Williamson. This meant nobody in America had voted for Harris. Fortunately, Trump resoundingly defeated Harris and her feckless sidekick, Tim “Stolen Valor” Walz.
The path the Department of Justice is now taking to answer the question of who was actually in charge starts with Biden’s autopen signatures on pardons, and the question of who was actually managing those signature generators.
As you recall, there were thousands of pardons and commutations ostensibly issued by Biden on his way out the door (and even in his final minutes in office). Determining who actually authorized many of these autopen orders is the low-hanging fruit for investigators to determine who was actually behind other autopen authorizations, including executive orders and legislation.
According to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), his committee is investigating “whether President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was covered up by his inner circle and if critical decisions were made on his behalf using an autopen, including executive actions, pardons, and policy directives.”
He notes further: “While Biden was allegedly unfit to perform his duties, several high-level aides are reported to have been operating with unchecked authority. Some of these witnesses, who are closest to Biden, have invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to testify willingly, attempting to delay their appearance before the Committee, and hiding the truth from the American people.”
Of all those outgoing pardons and commutations, Biden actually hand-signed only one. And that one, of course, was the get-out-of-jail-free card for his corrupt son, Hunter, signed 1 December 2024.
Then, Biden’s autopen handlers commuted the sentences of 1,499 people and pardoned another 39 convicts, which he then followed just before Christmas with his autopen commutation of the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates, some being the most evil people in federal custody. A week later, his autopen commuted another 2,500 sentences.
Just hours before leaving office, despite warnings from Demos not to issue preemptive pardons, Biden’s autopen did just that, issuing before-the-fact pardons for Anthony Fauci, GEN Mark Milley, and the J6 inquisitors, and witness-tampering former Rep. Liz Cheney.
Of those preemptive pardons, Biden laughably claimed, “I believe in the rule of law, but these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing.”
Finally, just minutes before Trump took his oath of office, Biden’s autopen jumped into action yet again, giving pardons to his immediate family members — to the astonishment of even many of his most stalwart Leftmedia defenders, including CNN’s Jake Tapper.
All told, over his four years in office, Biden’s autopen issued pardons and clemencies to more than 10,500 criminals, which is, as he proudly declared, “more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history.” (For context, Donald Trump issued a total of 237 pardons and clemencies in his first term.)
As former federal prosecutor Trey Gowdy says: “It’s relevant to ask ‘who was running the White House?’ … He managed to wake up long enough to let almost every single killer off of death row. Was Biden making these terrible decisions, or was someone else the de facto president?”
This week, we now know there was little evidence that Biden was even consulted on the vast majority of those autopen-signed clemencies.
According to the left-leaning publication Axios, “High-ranking Biden administration officials repeatedly questioned and criticized how the president’s team decided on controversial pardons and allowed the frequent use of an autopen to sign measures late in his term.”
As The Washington Times reported, “A top Justice Department official warned the Biden administration that thousands of last-minute pardons signed by autopen were legally flawed.”
According to a collateral investigation by the New York Post:
Then-White House Staff Secretary Stef Feldman, a key gatekeeper of the presidential autopen, wrote to West Wing lawyers she needed evidence Biden had consented before she authorized a mechanical signature on one of the most sweeping acts of clemency in American history.
“I’m going to need email from [Deputy Assistant to the President] Rosa [Po] on original chain confirming P[resident] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready,” Feldman wrote to five other Biden aides at 9:16 p.m.
Six minutes later, deputy White House counsel Tyeesha Dixon, one of the email recipients, forwarded the message to Michael Posada, chief of staff to the White House counsel’s office.
“Michael, thoughts on how to handle this?” Dixon asked, adding in reference to the documents authorizing clemency: “He doesn’t review the warrants.”
What is the significance of these latest developments?
Again, circling back to the June assertion attributed to Biden that he “made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations,” getting to the bottom of who actually was directing the pardons will open a pathway to investigate which of Biden’s deep state handlers were responsible for “executive orders” and “legislation” he ostensibly signed.
Stay tuned.
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