New revelations, coupled with virtually universal recognition of his long-standing cognitive troubles, now call into question the “validity” of hundreds of Biden Executive Orders, commutations, pardons, and signatures on legislation.
PJ Media and The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight project reported March 6 that virtually every document signed by Biden upon entering office was the result of “autopen” and not his own hand.
Of course, this could inspire an itemization of Biden’s own "personal history” whoppers that have been proven utterly inauthentic. It grants another opportunity to recall that his entire plastic political life is analogous to these machine-made scrawls supposedly showing his approval. But these new allegations are particularly alarming.
Matt Margolis notes:
“A shocking investigation by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project has revealed that virtually every document bearing Joe Biden's signature during his presidency was signed by an autopen — except for one.
What makes this revelation particularly damning is that the only document confirmed to have Biden's actual signature was his letter announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. Let that sink in for a moment.”
Margolis also notes:
“Remember when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) revealed his discussion with Biden when Biden couldn't recall signing the executive order halting LNG exports?”
Yes, we remember, and we reported at MRCTV that Johnson unethically kept quiet about it for nearly a year, indicting him for withholding that information, and that Johnson also did not protest the unconstitutional power-grabs many of those Executive Orders represented. Not good, all the way ‘round.
Given this pair of problems: the auto-signatures and the cognitive trouble, Margolis expresses the question that might be on many minds:
Given the probability that Biden didn’t sign any of those orders Johnson discussed with him – or any of them, at all – who did? How do American citizens assess the validity of the Executive Orders, the commutations, the pardons, or even the legislation (including budgets) that Biden did not really sign?
Related: Concerns Over Biden's Memory and Johnson's Silence on Natural Gas Ban
Chaya Raichik, known as “Libs of TikTok” on X, also spread the news, and added a sign of the larger, legal dimensions of the problem, writing March 5:
“BREAKING: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the DOJ to investigate whether Biden’s cognitive mental decline allowed unelected officials to make decisions without his knowledge or approval. If that’s the case, Biden’s executive orders, pardons, and other actions, may be unconstitutional and void.”
She attached screen shots of Bailey’s letter to the DOJ, and it makes for powerful reading. Perhaps most alarming, Bailey’s logic-driven statement:
“There are profound reasons to suspect that Biden’s staff and political allies exploited his mental decline to issue purported presidential orders without his knowing approval.”
Columnist Susan Shelley on X also noted this towering problem, specifically citing the evident auto-pen exactitude of Biden signatures on seven pardons, and offering:
“Thought it would be interesting to look at Joe Biden's signatures on the seven pardons issued in the last hours before he left office. The president's pardon power can't be constrained or challenged, but who used an autopen to issue blanket, preemptive, 11-year pardons?”
Historically minded readers might recall that Thomas Jefferson created an early form of “mimeograph” machine by connecting his pen to a small frame, which, itself, attached to numerous other pens, allowing him to make copies of whatever he liked. He called it a "polygraph" -- properly employing the Greek prefix for "many" with the Greek "graphikus" i.e. words/writing to name an invention that is quite different from the "truth detection" machines with which we are familiar today.
And on the subject of truth...
Red State’s Nick Arama noted March 7:
“Now, autopen has been used by presidents for documents like correspondence in the past. But Barack Obama created controversy by basically dialing it in 2011 for a bill extending the Patriot Act. He was in Europe at the time, and he directed someone to use an autopen to sign the legislation, which the White House thought was the first time that had been done for legislation.
Obama then did it multiple other times. The White House pointed to an opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration, arguing that the autopen was legal, though Bush himself was never in a position where he had to use it. But as USA Today noted in 2015, it hadn't been legally challenged and people still have questions.”
Indeed, the questions are widespread, and pertain not just to Biden in the Executive Branch.
Jon Levine reports for The New York Post that numerous members of Congress have begun to express alarm about the mental facility of their tax-eating colleagues. Writing a piece that cites members and notes the fears of anonymous figures, he observes:
“Up to a dozen members of Congress reportedly have mental faculties so diminished they can no longer do their jobs — with some even showing up drunk or stoned to cast votes.”
Of course, both the evident lack of real authority in many Biden actions and the reports of Congressional cognitive collapse are not the only mockeries of us, the civilians who are tasked to endure the circus. And they are not the only slights and acts of contempt directed against the system under which the U.S. government is supposed to function.
A broader understanding of the misused U.S. system tells us that, even IF Biden’s signatures on legislation, or on the hundreds of Executive Orders he issued in his final weeks, were to be judged “authentic” as far as his signature is concerned, the constitutional authority of them would be laughable.
Be it his restrictions on energy exploration and recovery, his attacks on the Second Amendment, his LNG export ban (the E.O. that was the subject of Johnson’s January, 2024, conversation with Biden, about which Biden had forgotten or did not know, and about which Johnson said nothing for nearly a year), or Biden’s signature on virtually every piece of legislation passed by Congress, the constitutionality of the federal actions is, more often than not, highly suspect.
As a result, these revelations – about Biden and the rumored mental declines of Congress members – come as additional problems that likely will not be addressed or rectified from within.
The only way to hold these people in line, or to pull them back from their excursions into unwarranted governmental claims of authority over us is to remember that no government truly has any authority over anyone. At least the Constitution offers some purported barriers to their tyranny.
But, given the lack of honor and mental stability among many in DC, it is up to us to cite them for their wrongs, and it is up to us to try to change the environment to one that is less onerous and more conducive to freedom.
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