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'Delusional': Oversight Republicans slam ex-Biden aide for lashing out at Trump, GOP in autopen probe (Andrew Bates)
Fox News ^ | 9/05/25 | Elizabeth Elkind

Posted on 09/06/2025 1:19:33 AM PDT by Libloather

FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee is slamming former Biden spokesman Andrew Bates after he accused Republican lawmakers of having a misguided focus in his opening remarks during the panel's autopen probe.

Bates, the latest former White House official to be interviewed by House investigators, affirmed ex-President Joe Biden's leadership while criticizing his successor in an opening statement obtained by Fox News Digital via a source familiar.

An Oversight Committee spokesperson said in response, "Andrew Bates was part of the Biden cognitive decline cover-up and he’s delusional."

"His so-called opening statement — leaked in the middle of his transcribed interview and not even read at the time it was leaked — peddled the same fantasy he’s been trying to sell the American people. The public has rejected Bates’ spin and witnessed President Biden’s decline with their own eyes," the spokesperson said.

"And just this week, new records revealed that President Biden neither approved — nor may have even been consulted on — thousands of pardons. This is a historic scandal with massive repercussions."

A Biden ally said in response, "What’s delusional is continuing to perpetuate a conspiracy theory around autopens that Comer regularly uses himself."

Bates said in the opening statement provided to Fox News Digital, "I was proud to support Joe Biden as President because we believe in the same values. In the White House, it was universally understood that Joe Biden was in charge. That is completely consistent with my personal experience with the President."

"Now someone else with a very different character is in charge," the statement said.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: andrewbates; arrestandrewbates; autopen; brandon; coupaccomplice; fjb; masterandrew; masterbates; oversight; probe; scandal
Everyone has an autopen? I want one.
1 posted on 09/06/2025 1:19:33 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

It has been claimed that no person writes his signature the same way. There are always subtle differences. If that is the case, the Biden signature, always the same, would indicate the use of an autopen.


2 posted on 09/06/2025 3:28:41 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Libloather

2 months old:

‘WE’VE GOT A LOT OF EVIDENCE’: Comer gives update on Biden autopen investigation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ovXQILSCY


3 posted on 09/06/2025 4:24:07 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Libloather

It may be discovered later this Andrew Bates guy has things in common with Norman Bates (Hitchcock fans will understand this comparison)


4 posted on 09/06/2025 4:57:57 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Libloather

BTTT


5 posted on 09/06/2025 5:05:39 AM PDT by nopardons ( )
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To: Bookshelf

Meanwhile, Trump is careful to sign important documents with video and multiple witnesses showing HIM manually signing.


6 posted on 09/06/2025 5:45:18 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (You’ve not seen the darkness in the hearts of men who realize no one is coming to save them.)
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To: Libloather

Ignore the posturing and words. Follow the money.


7 posted on 09/06/2025 5:52:12 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Libloather

Democrats are trained when ever anyone says anything bad about them to immediately turn the matter around with “but Trump”.


8 posted on 09/06/2025 6:11:17 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Libloather

“Leaking “an opening statement before it was even made, is how the Dem partner media had the point of view of Bates, even if it is filled with lies, which they could focus on. The propaganda media will never even mention the refutations of what Bates put in his opening statement.

This is how people who consume only the propaganda media can have no idea of the truth of what happens.


9 posted on 09/06/2025 6:35:28 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: nopardons

Pres. Otto Penn. bump


10 posted on 09/06/2025 6:40:00 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Libloather
"Now someone else with a very different character is in charge," the statement said.

I voted for that!

11 posted on 09/06/2025 6:41:56 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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To: Libloather

“The House Oversight Committee is slamming former Biden spokesman Andrew Bates after he accused Republican lawmakers of having a misguided focus in his opening remarks during the panel’s autopen probe. “

Sounds like he was using signing for Bidenn using autopen and now is afraid of getting exposed.


12 posted on 09/06/2025 7:01:32 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Libloather

Poor mans autopen

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13 posted on 09/06/2025 7:28:42 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Libloather

They’re just running out the clock about senile Biden.


14 posted on 09/06/2025 3:29:53 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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