In another potentially very big win for MAGA and key move from Congressional Republicans that could help them hold the Swamp accountable, the House Oversight Committee has declared the Biden autopen pardons “null and void”, suggesting that the DOJ and other authorities could move to start prosecuting those involved.
As background, it was revealed early on in the days of the new Trump Administration that the group pardon allegedly signed by former President Biden had instead been signed by an autopen, as was done with most other documents ostensibly signed by him, and thus were not signed by the then-president, which could mean they are invalid. Further, some reports claim that former President Biden didn’t even know about the pardons, casting further doubt on their legitimacy.
President Trump, posting about that matter once it was revealed, declared the pardons “null and void,” saying, “The “Pardons” that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.”
Now the House Oversight Committee is saying much the same thing, as it announced in a press release on Wednesday, October 29, writing, “Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a staff report titled ‘The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House.’ The report exposes how President Joe Biden’s top advisors, political operatives, and personal physician concealed the President’s mental and physical decline from the American people.”
Continuing, the press release for the report said, “The findings reveal that as President Biden’s condition deteriorated, his aides exercised presidential authority and facilitated executive actions without his direct authorization, including misusing the autopen and failing to properly document decision-making processes.”
And, in the section describing its findings, the Oversight Committee explained, “The Oversight Committee found substantial evidence that President Joe Biden experienced significant mental and physical decline during his presidency, while senior White House officials actively sought to conceal his deterioration from the public. President Biden’s inner circle, including top advisors and his physician, undertook coordinated efforts to mislead the public regarding his cognitive state, using scripted messaging, restricted access, and tightly controlled appearances.”
Further, it described how the autopen played into that, explaining, “Senior Biden staff exercised presidential authority or facilitated executive actions without direct authorization from President Biden himself, including through misuse of the autopen and failures in documenting decision-making processes.”
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Building on that, and noting the immense irregularities, the report explained, “The Oversight Committee found alarming deficiencies in the documentation and custody of the President’s decision binder, including instances where executive actions were executed without written authorization or clear record of the President’s approval. The Committee identified irregularities in the issuance of pardons and commutations during the final days of the Biden presidency, including those involving members of the Biden family, where the autopen was used without confirmed presidential authorization or proper documentation. ”
Chairman James Comer, for his part, declared, “The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. As Americans saw President Biden’s decline with their own eyes, Biden’s inner circle sought to deceive the public, cover-up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with the autopen that are now invalid.”
Continuing, he declared the autopen pardons to be null and void, saying, “Our report reveals how key aides colluded to mislead the public and the extraordinary measures they took to sustain the appearance of presidential authority as Biden’s capacity to function independently diminished. Executive actions performed by Biden White House staff and signed by autopen are null and void.”
Concluding, he added, “We are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a thorough review of these executive actions and scrutinize key Biden aides who took the Fifth to hide their participation in the cover-up. The D.C. Board of Medicine must also review the actions taken by President Biden’s physician to hide his true condition. We have provided Americans with transparency about the Biden Autopen Presidency, and now there must be accountability.”
Watch him comment on the matter during an appearance on Fox News Channel here: