Posted on 10/30/2025 12:13:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When the White House included a gilt-framed image of an autopen in the new Presidential Walk of Fame installed outside the West Wing last month, it was more than just another epic troll by President Trump of his predecessor.
The stark image on the wall among presidential portraits from George Washington to Donald Trump encapsulates Joe Biden’s failed presidency.
It wasn’t just the opportunity cost of a commander in chief who was asleep at the wheel but the sum total of catastrophic judgments over four years of a man whose manifest flaws were only magnified by his cognitive decline.
Even though everyone on the planet saw Biden’s deterioration with our own eyes and knew what it meant, having it laid out forensically in a 100-page report by the House Oversight Committee is still shocking, especially with the accompanying video interviews of various members of Biden’s inner circle.
Historic document
“The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” released Tuesday, is a valuable historic document, even if Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer doesn’t get all the ambit claims on his wish list, such as declaring Biden’s thousands of late-term pardons and dozens of executive actions “null and void.”
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“As President Biden’s health declined, Biden White House staffers usurped presidential authority by executing decisions without the president’s awareness — including misusing the autopen and bypassing proper documentation of decision-making processes,” says the report.
It paints a grim picture of a president cocooned by his wife, Jill Biden, son Hunter Biden and three Svengali-style aides — Anthony Bernal, Jill’s chief of staff whom she reportedly called her “work husband,” Annie Tomasini and Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who gaslit the American public with...
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But as he did when he selected Harris and Jean-Pierre for DEI window dressing, Joe chose his ¬inner sanctum precisely because they were unimpressive,..
Comer has named Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed and Anita Dunn — and both chiefs of staff, Ron Klain and Jeff Zients — as the central members of what has been called the “American Politburo” that controlled the former president…
“Their proximity to, and influence over, President Biden gave them great political power, status and influence.”
Dear Ms. Devine-
Thanks for a nice article, however isn’t there another possible angle?
Anyone “behind the curtain” influencing the “inner circle”?
Good question. (I use the Obama-Biden-Harris administration as a generic term for his 12 years of control.)
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