President Donald Trump has been sounding off after it’s been revealed that former President Joe Biden used his autopen to sign several executive orders and pardons.
Given that Biden’s mental health was getting worse in the last year of his presidency, Trump is questioning the signatures and whether they are valid.
“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. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!” Trump added.
As noted by Townhall’s Katie Pavlich, “No word yet from those who Biden pardoned, like Liz Cheney, Hunter Biden, Dr. Fauci, General Mark Milley and others, about whether the pardons will stand up in court.”
Sen Eric Schmitt (R-MO) took action on Thursday to uncover what he called one of the most damning scandals in U.S. history—demanding access to sealed Biden autopen records after former Biden official Neera Tanden admitted she was in control of it for over a year and a half.
Tanden, who served as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, gave closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. Under oath, she admitted that she was the one authorized to use Joe Biden’s autopen from October 2021 until May 2023.
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) recently named five Biden aides as central players in what appears to be a coordinated effort to hide the president’s mental decline, and the autopen is at the center of it.
Tanden testified that not only was she authorized to use the autopen, but she could also direct its use. She denied any wrongdoing but admitted something jaw-dropping: she used the autopen without direct confirmation from Biden himself, The Washington Examiner reported.
In other words, Tanden seemed to say she was signing official actions in Biden’s name without verifying if he had approved them.
But Schmitt isn’t buying it.
“I just took a first-of-its-kind act on the Biden autopen coverup,” he announced. “Using my authority as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, I have submitted a ‘special access request’ to Archivist Marco Rubio to obtain sealed documents. It may blow this whole thing open,” he said on X.
“I previewed this action this morning. The Biden mental decline coverup was one of the most damning scandals in U.S. history,” Schmitt continued. “A key priority of mine is to make sure that something like this will never happen again. The only way to do that is to figure out what went wrong and who was running the country. With the requested documents, the subcommittee can begin work on crafting a solution.”
He explained the legal authority behind his move: “The ‘special access request’ is a provision of the Presidential Records Act that authorizes a congressional subcommittee to obtain past presidential records necessary for the conduct of its business, even if those records are not yet available to the general public.”
“Given Biden’s profound mental decline, there are serious questions about the validity of orders signed by autopen in his name,” Schmitt said. “Accordingly, I have requested for the subcommittee access to all Biden White House memoranda concerning autopen procedures and authorization.”
