Posted on 06/26/2025 2:13:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone
President Donald Trump is helping congressional Republicans investigate his White House predecessor, Joe Biden, and the Biden administration’s extensive use of the autopen.
Nine senior Biden aides have been called to testify before the House Oversight Committee, and the Trump White House decided Tuesday to waive executive privilege for the staffers, allowing committee members to grill them on the autopen use without any legal obstacles.
“Evidence that aides to former President Biden concealed information regarding his fitness to exercise the powers of the President—and may have unconstitutionally exercised those powers themselves to aid in their concealment—implicates both Congress’ constitutional and legislative powers,” wrote Deputy White House Counsel Gary Lawkowski in a letter to former Biden adviser and staff secretary Neera Tanden and her attorneys.
In light of [the] unique and extraordinary nature of the matters under investigation, President Trump has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the national interest,” Lawkowski continued.
Trump also waived executive privilege for eight other Biden administration officials: Counselor to the President Steve Ricchetti, Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, Chiefs of Staff Ron Klain and Bruce Reed, and senior advisers Mike Donilon, Anita Dunn, and Ashley Williams, as well as Anthony Bernal, a senior adviser to Jill Biden.
Tanden testified before the committee in a closed-door hearing on Tuesday, but reportedly told congressmen that, although she was “authorized” to use the autopen to sign Biden administration orders and documents, she did not know if Joe Biden himself approved or authorized decisions.
According to Tanden, she and other Biden aides would send requests for autopen use approval to members of Biden’s “inner circle,” but had no way of verifying that the president himself had signed off on those requests by the time that they were returned.
The Biden adviser further claimed that she did not discuss Biden’s declining physical or cognitive health with other administration officials, and subsequently told reporters that there was “absolutely not” an attempt to cover up the state of Biden’s health.
Previous reports have suggested that Biden was unaware of a number of executive orders that he supposedly signed. The then-president’s failing cognitive state coupled with the administration’s broad use of the autopen has caused concern among Republicans over the constitutionality of the Biden administration’s actions.
Family Research Council Action Director Matt Carpenter recounted in comments to The Washington Stand, “At first, the presidential use of the autopen was limited to signing checks, correspondence, and other nonlegislative tasks. In 2011, [Barack] Obama authorized the use of the autopen to sign an extension of the Patriot Act while he was in France.”
He continued, “Now, the use of the autopen has grown so much that we have no idea to what extent Biden—who was clearly cognitively deficient throughout his entire term as president—was involved in official business during his time as president.”
Good for President Trump in waiving executive privilege and allowing Biden staffers to testify in front of Congress about the use of the autopen in the White House,” Carpenter continued. He said, “Biden issued more acts of clemency (4,245) than any other president in history, including preemptive pardons in the final days of his administration for his son Hunter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and members and staff on the Jan. 6 Committee.”
Carpenter observed, “There’s a fundamental legal question underlying these preemptive pardons, which is: If the president is potentially unable to perform the duties of his office because of his declining mental health, what safeguards exist to ensure the American people the use of the autopen aligns with the president’s intentions?”
In addition to the House Oversight Committee’s investigation, Trump has launched his own probe into the Biden administration’s autopen use and the cover-up of the former president’s health. Rather than have the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia conduct the investigation, as would be typical, Trump has handed the task to White House Counsel David Warrington and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs select subcommittee on investigations and the Senate Judiciary Committee have also launched investigations and conducted hearings surrounding the autopen use and the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline.
Only ARRESTS matter!
ONLY ARRESTS!
Whomever controls the Autopen is the President.
They have to figure out how to crawl out of the crib before they can win their first one hundred yard dash.
Lol.
The DEMs will finger no one, and then sit there and say “Well, without a witness, there is no case!”
RE: members of Biden’s “inner circle,” but had no way of verifying that the president himself had signed off on those requests...
Her quote:
I was told to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. 😉
If she operated the Auto Pen without a direct written order from Biden himself, she committed FRAUD and should be PROSECUTED.
If Anthony Bernal doesn't respond to his subpoena to appear, ARREST HIM just as the DemonRats arrested Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, etc.. "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW".
I believe she got permission to use the auto pen from the President. But which President?
His refusal to testify is a huge red flag.
I’m convinced Hunter was selling pardons for $$cash.
Monetizing FJB’s position has been his entire career.
It’s ok. He identifies as the real President.
It really should be like....And directly out of the President’s mouth...”Here, put signatures on these”. Anything less is fraud.
Tony Bernal won’t show up until the Sinaloa Cartel lets him.
Tucson Tony, the tip of the octopus tentacle.
“”Anything less is fraud.””
Exactly.
Exactly.
Get that c’s texts, emails and all bank records.
They ALL knew Joe was only a puppet with everyone’s hand shoved up his butt making him say what they wanted him to say and do.
Here is the deal - they mock us, knowing there is nothing anyone would do.
Does anyone remember the corpulent woman during bo’s reign, testifying before Congress during a televised hearing? She stopped in the middle of her being questioned and left, saying she had an appointment scheduled and she had to leave? She was smirking the entire time while people were in shock that she would just GO in the middle of a hearing.
NOBODY. DID. A. THING.
Great thread with lots of info and great comments on this scandal on X
“The Unelected President: Neera Tanden, the NGO Cartel, and the Greatest Conflict of Interest in Modern American Politics
On June 24, 2025, the mask finally slipped.
Testifying before Congress behind closed doors, Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic operative and former president of the far-left think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) she admitted to running the autopen for President Joe Biden. She didn’t just witness the signature process. She oversaw it. In some cases, she was the one signing the President’s name to executive orders and laws.
This wasn’t a technicality. This was a transfer of power. Joe Biden was not acting as President. Neera Tanden was.
And that’s only half the scandal.”
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1937682260968505444
“Biden Admin Official Admits She Didn’t Know If Autopen Orders Came From President”
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If she did not know whether the orders came from the President then NO, they did not come from the President.
Prog 101.
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It actually does not matter who ordered it. Anything she signed is invalid but nothing will be done about it.
Whether she knows the origin or not, she definitely knows who told her to do it.
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