So here’s something wild. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats walked right out of a hearing about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, the alleged cover-up, and how some people may have used that decline for their own benefit. Just stood up and left. Apparently, they weren’t too eager to hear what was going on behind the scenes.
Republicans stayed, and they ended up hearing some pretty disturbing details. We’re talking about executive orders, pardons, and even laws passed by Congress that might not be legit, all because someone else may have been signing Biden’s name.
Now, if that sounds crazy, it gets worse. The Oversight Project, a government watchdog, found earlier this year that Biden’s signature on some very important documents — pardons, executive orders, and the like — wasn’t even real. It was machine-generated.
Yes, previous presidents have used something called an autopen, which basically signs documents for them. But this wasn’t just a one-off tool for convenience. There’s strong reason to believe that people around Biden — unelected individuals — were using that autopen to push their own agenda.
Former President Donald Trump actually talked about this with Glenn Beck back in October. He said there was probably a “committee” of nameless bureaucrats running things. And based on what we’re hearing now, he might’ve been right.
Since then, several investigations have been launched into how the autopen was used and who was making decisions for Biden — staffers, family, and who knows who else.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThis all came to a head during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “how the Biden cover-up endangered America and undermined the Constitution.” The goal was to shine a light on how Democrats and the media allegedly kept Biden’s decline hidden from the public and how others may have taken advantage of the situation.
Democrats on the committee — many of whom told the country Biden was sharp as a tack — didn’t want to hear any of it. They skipped testimony from former Trump official Theodore Wold, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, and UVA law professor John Harrison. Instead, they just bailed.
A couple of them did show up to complain before leaving. Sen. Peter Welch from Vermont said Congress should be talking about climate change, healthcare, Iran, or the national debt. His take? “What we’re doing right now won’t help.”
Sen. Dick Durbin from Illinois posted on X, saying, “This partisan farce of a hearing is a waste of our time and resources.”
But Mike Howell, who heads up the Oversight Project, didn’t see it that way. He told Blaze News, “The autopen administration brought great shame on the United States and was an international embarrassment. The United States must live by the most basic contours of its own Constitution if it is to project power and credibility. If we, as a nation, can’t tell the world who was running the White House for four years, then we have more than a ‘threat to democracy.’”
Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri wasn’t exactly subtle either. He pointed at the empty seats and asked, “Where are they now? They don’t want to answer for any of those quotes now. They lied to us for four years, and we know they lied. They know they lied. It’s why they’re not here.”
Then came Wold’s testimony. He reminded everyone that the Constitution gives executive power to one person — the president. Even though the executive branch has grown massively since its founding, that one person is still the only source of democratic legitimacy.
Wold said, “The president takes positive actions and authenticates those actions through his signature. His signature is required for the most significant actions he may undertake: to sign an executive order, to take any action vested in him by the Constitution, as in granting a pardon, and to take the most important action of all: to sign a bill into law. In all these cases, the president’s signature is itself the protection of democratic principles. When the president signs, he communicates his assent and endorsement of the action he takes.”
But here’s the kicker: Wold said that signature — Biden’s — might not have always been tied to actual decisions he made. He explained that in June 2022, the White House started using the autopen to sign clemency warrants. By July, it was being used on executive orders. And it didn’t stop. “We found that of the 51 clemency warrants issued during the Biden presidency, over half — 32 in total — were signed with an autopen.”
Some of those pardons were controversial too — people like Biden’s relatives, Anthony Fauci, and General Mark Milley.
Wold said plainly that “the president has to make the decision — that cannot be delegated to a staffer or an adviser,” but there’s no real evidence showing Biden was the one making the calls.
Then Sen. Ted Cruz pressed Wold with a serious question: If both chambers of Congress pass a bill, but it’s signed by a staffer without the president’s OK, is that law?
Wold’s answer? “No.”
Hawley followed up, saying there should be records for every time Biden authorized the autopen.
Wold agreed, saying, “In the policy paper flow to the Oval Office, there should be a record of what documents are presented to the president, when, and when he gave his assent to the actions that are listed in those documents, whether it’s a judicial nomination or it’s a statutory response to Congress.”
Hawley’s response? “We need to get those documents.”
Sen. Eric Schmitt from Missouri called this the “autopen presidency, a government run by committee rather than a leader chosen by the American people.” He said he plans to request access to the staff secretary’s autopen records to determine who was signing off on what and when.
According to Howell, the Oversight Project has already put together a list of the documents signed by the autopen. As for who was responsible? They’re sharing that information with investigators.
And Howell wasn’t exactly downplaying what comes next. He told Blaze News, “We have no steps planned. We have gallops planned. Stay tuned.”
Now, what does accountability look like? Trump recently said on Truth Social that the people who exploited Biden and “took over the Autopen” committed “TREASON at the Highest Level.”
Wold told Blaze News, “Those who received autopen pardons should be charged for the crimes they were pardoned for. Those who operated the autopen without the direction of the president should be charged with potential crimes ranging from impersonation of an official to forgery.”
Wold also added that lawmakers need to think seriously about whether the 25th Amendment should be updated, especially when those in charge of invoking it chose instead to keep an incapacitated president in place.
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