M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about an interesting assessment of a Biden administration scandal.
What has … become crystal clear is that Biden wasn’t in control of his own administration and the liberal use of the presidential autopen. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s 100-page report released this week drove that point home.
Titled, “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” the report provides copious evidence of the former president’s incredibly shrinking cognitive and physical abilities, his “inner circle of loyalists attempting to mislead the nation to ignore what people’s eyes plainly showed them,” and the constitutional crisis his decline and the cover-up created.
Ultimately, the committee report concluded that all of Biden’s executive actions signed by the autopen “without proper, corresponding, contemporaneous, written approval traceable to the president’s own consent” are “void.”
The report includes damning testimony about the president’s lieutenants — in positions that traditionally would give them routine access to the commander-in-chief — barely seeing him. As a leading investigator on the autopen scandal put it, “the president was an inactive force in the White House.”
Correspondingly, “it was autopen by default in the administration,” Mike Howell, president of the government watchdog Oversight Project, tells The Federalist in an upcoming Federalist Radio Hour podcast. The Oversight Project dug up alarming evidence of the wider autopen scandal, with the preliminary findings of its investigation released in March. House Oversight Committee investigators tracked down many of the leads contained in the watchdog’s original memorandum.
The New York Times labeled the Oversight Project’s work as nothing more than a “conspiracy theory.” Remember, the New York Times also won — and kept — a Pulitzer Prize for pushing the Russia Collusion Hoax.
On March 6, the project told the world in all caps, “Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency.”
