And now for the stupidest headline of the week (Of course it’s from Politico). “House GOP concludes investigation into Biden’s alleged mental decline.”
Alleged? There’s nothing alleged about President Joe Biden’s mental decline. His own party got rid of him and replaced him with an idiot thanks to his mental decline. “Alleged” is necessary for speculative things. There was nothing speculative about Biden’s disastrous time in office. We saw with our own eyes. Cover-up media outlets like Politico spent four years telling us not to believe our eyes, up until George Clooney wrote an op-ed in the New York Times.
What has also become crystal clear is that Biden wasn’t in control of his own administration and the liberal use of the presidential autopen. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s 100-page report released this week drove that point home.
‘Autopen by Default’
Titled, “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” the report provides copious evidence of the former president’s incredibly shrinking cognitive and physical abilities, his “inner circle of loyalists attempting to mislead the nation to ignore what people’s eyes plainly showed them,” and the constitutional crisis his decline and the cover-up created.
Ultimately, the committee report concluded that all of Biden’s executive actions signed by the autopen “without proper, corresponding, contemporaneous, written approval traceable to the president’s own consent” are “void.”
The report includes damning testimony about the president’s lieutenants — in positions that traditionally would give them routine access to the commander-in-chief — barely seeing him. As a leading investigator on the autopen scandal put it, “the president was an inactive force in the White House.”
Correspondingly, “it was autopen by default in the administration,” Mike Howell, president of the government watchdog Oversight Project, tells The Federalist in an upcoming Federalist Radio Hour podcast. The Oversight Project dug up alarming evidence of the wider autopen scandal, with the preliminary findings of its investigation released in March. House Oversight Committee investigators tracked down many of the leads contained in the watchdog’s original memorandum.
‘The Autopen Controlled the Presidency’
The New York Times labeled the Oversight Project’s work as nothing more than a “conspiracy theory.” Remember, the New York Times also won — and kept — a Pulitzer Prize for pushing the Russia Collusion Hoax.
On March 6, the project told the world in all caps, “Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency.”
“We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency,” the X post stated. “All used the same autopen signature except for the the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year.”
Following the House committee report, the Oversight Project released an additional review. In all, investigators examined 1,597 enrolled copies of documents with Biden’s signature. The documents include “all enrolled copies of signed bills, pardon warrants, commutation warrants, Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations.” Among the review’s findings:
› 88.3% (846/958) of documents excluding public laws (Executive Orders, Pardons, Commutations, and Proclamations) were signed with an autopen.
› The Biden White House first deployed the autopen on day 5 of the Biden Administration to sign a proclamation.
› Biden appears to have hand signed all but one bill into law. President Biden’s signature varies significantly across the enrolled bills and appears to deteriorate as his cognitive abilities declined throughout his Presidency.
› Autopen use for documents increased throughout the Administration as President Biden’s mental and physical acuity declined.
› The Biden White House had widespread use of the autopen while President Biden was physically in Washington, D.C. and was thus presumably available to hand sign important documents.
› 82.2% (696/846) of all autopen-signed Executive Orders, Pardons, Commutations and Proclamations, were signed while Biden was in D.C.
“For those on the left who are claiming this is how it has always worked, that people have always used autopens — Not at this scale. The autopen was designed as a tool for executive convenience… not as a tool to basically replace the president. And that’s what happened in the Biden years,” Howell said.
The Clemency Pen
Biden — or someone in his administration — granted 4,245 acts of clemency during his four years in the White House, Pew Research reported. That’s significantly more than any president on record, outpacing even Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 3,796 acts in his 12 years in office.
Biden’s “benevolence” included 4,165 commutations and 80 pardons, a flurry coming in the final days of his presidency. His last-minute pardons included his degenerate son, Hunter, as well as the reprehensible Anthony Fauci, retired general and deep state creep Mark Milley and lawmakers on the House Jan. 6 show trial.
Biden commuted the sentences of all but three federal death row inmates to life in prison. And a lot of violent people are back out on the streets. All of it was done with suspected use of the autopen.
‘Investigating Is No Longer Good Enough’
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has asked the Department of Justice to “conduct a comprehensive review of all executive actions taken during the Biden presidency and scrutinize key Biden aides —Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Annie Tomasini, and Anthony Bernal — who pleaded the Fifth Amendment during the investigation.” Attorney General Pam Bondi obliged.
“I’m here to say investigating is no longer good enough. We need accountability,” Howell said. “The ball is in the DOJ’s hands. It’s always been in the DOJ’s hands.”
The problem, Howell said, is that DOJ continues to treat the autopen actions as legitimate, despite evidence to the contrary and contrary to President Trump’s clear direction that the pardons should be vacated. Review time is over, the investigator said. It’s time for prosecutions and accountability. Until then, Howell said those who still believe in foundational principles and abhor the unconstitutional idea of a presidency by committee, are a long way from victory.
“Victory happens when accountability happens,” he said. “The people who have the no-good pardons should be federally prosecuted. And the people who implemented the scheme of forgery and lying should also be prosecuted.”
Listen to the full interview with Mike Howell on Friday’s edition of The Federalist Radio Hour.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
