Oversight report: Biden aides exercised presidential authority, so autopen actions are ‘VOID’!

A congressional report has found that Joe Biden’s aides arranged for the autopen signings of executive actions, directed policy and orchestrated his public appearances, literally exercising presidential authorities without his knowledge or consent, as his cognitive decline advanced.

The 90-page report, “The Biden Autopen President: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” charges that Biden’s close associates actually ran the government during his final months in office.

U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chief of the House Oversight Committee, concluded the findings have raised “constitutional and criminal concerns” about actions “Biden” took while in office.

A report at Fox News said the committee has demanded a complete investigation into the autopen signatures that Biden’s associates arranged.

“Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides — at the direction of the inner circle — hid the truth about the former president’s condition and fitness for office,” charged the report. And there was a “haphazard documentation process” for pardons made by Biden.

The committee said those procedures “left room for doubt over whether the former president made those decisions himself,” the report said. In fact, the report simply said those actions now are “void.”

“In the absence of sufficient contemporaneous documentation indicating that cognitively deteriorating President Biden himself made a given executive decision, such decisions do not carry the force of law and should be considered void,” committee members concluded.

“The Department of Justice should immediately conduct a review of all executive actions taken by President Biden between January 20, 2021, and January 19, 2025. Given the patterns and findings detailed herein, this review should focus particularly on all acts of clemency. However, it should also include all other types of executive actions.”

Further, the report raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s influence, since former Biden chief of staff Jeff Zients has told investigators he was in the room for many discussions, including the preemptive pardons issued to Biden’s family.

Comer’s report said, “Zients testified that President Biden included his son, Hunter Biden, in the decision-making process for and meetings about pardons. This apparently included the meeting to discuss the pardons of five Biden family members, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and the members of Congress who served on the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, and their staff.”

A Biden regime spokesperson told Fox News Digital the investigation was “baseless,” even though 14 witnesses testified to Oversight, mostly top Biden aides.

Even during that testimony, Comer suggested, the aides were hiding things.

“Throughout the Committee’s investigation, senior Biden White House aides presented a perspective of President Biden’s cognitive health completely disconnected from that of the American public,” the report said. “Not one of the Committee’s 14 witnesses was willing to admit that they ever had a concern about President Biden being in cognitive decline. In fact, numerous witnesses could not recall having a single conversation about President Biden’s cognitive health with anyone inside or outside of the White House.”

According to a report in the Washington Examiner, Comer’s report found, “Biden’s aides misled the American people and hijacked the powers of the presidency. … Executive actions performed by Biden White House staff and signed by autopen are null and void.”

For example, the committee found 32 of 51 clemency warrants were signed by autopen, “without any contemporaneous documentation linking Biden to those discussions,” leaving no evidence the president agreed to the actions.

The Examiner explained, “A Jan. 19 episode detailed in the report describes a ‘game of telephone’ in which chief of staff Jeff Zients authorized the autopen for a final batch of pardons, including for his son Hunter Biden and four other family members, as well as Anthony Fauci, and Gen. Mark Milley, based only on secondhand accounts of a meeting he never attended. An aide emailed approval from Zients’s account, initialed ‘JZ,’ without confirming with Biden directly, according to the report.”

The report also criticizes ex-White House physician Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s longtime doctor, “noting that he had ‘business dealings with and financial connections to President Biden’s family.’ Investigators said those ties, combined with political incentives to keep Biden viable for reelection, created ‘a motive to conceal the president’s decline while running the government in his stead,'” the Examiner explained.

Comer’s report also revealed former aides confirmed an entire system of pre-scripted press cards, controlled questions, teleprompter use, schematics outlining the number of steps he would take and the time he would use during any public appearance.

Democrats on the Oversight Committee cited Biden’s own statements rejecting evidence he was unaware of decisions, and said the Republican report is conjecture.