Much as I keep not wanting to write about former Joe Biden news keeps popping up that fully justifies my decision back in 2021 to tag him as “President” Biden.
The coverup of his declining mental health should be treated as treason.
So now should the scandal about the use of the autopen for putting Biden’s signature on documents, including pardons. It’s been used for a long time now, but Obama was the first one to use it remotely when, in 2013, he sat in his Hawaiian mansion and “signed” a document back in the USA. But that was all above board as nobody doubted that he knew exactly what he was doing.
Not in “President” Biden’s case it seems:
Neera Tanden, former head of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, admitted that she authorized autopen signatures without knowledge of who issued the final approval in a closed-door hearing before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, according to Fox News.
In her role as staff secretary, before she was moved to the Domestic Policy Council, Tanden “was responsible for handling the the flow of documents to and from the President,” sending decision memos to “Biden’s inner circle” and affixing the president’s autopen signature to the documents when she received approval. Tanden was not privy to any of the decision-making process or who was giving the final approval. She rarely interacted with Biden. The system, according to her opening statement, was a relic of previous administrations.
Tanden was one of the main operators of the presidential autopen. She admitted that while she affixed Biden’s fake signature to pardons, she didn’t know who had actually authorised these pardons.
In other words, it wasn’t Biden. One of Biden’s aides would tell her to activate President Autopen, and she ran hundreds of pardons through the Presidential Vegetable Simulator.
The other juicy aspect of this whole thing is that Tanden tried to avoid testimony by claiming that she was covered by Executive Privilege. That’s been used many times before to block Congressional investigations into Presidential Administrations. Trump used that in his defence about the classified documents he supposedly illegally retained after he left office in 2021.
The Biden Administration stripped Executive Privilege from Trump in that case so they could prosecute him – so Trump is now playing by these new rules for Tanden and others:
Top Biden aide Anthony Bernal is refusing to appear before a House Republican-led committee on Thursday to answer questions about the purported cover-up of the president’s cognitive decline while in office.
Bernal, known as first lady Jill Biden’s “work husband” and a loyal member of the family’s inner circle, flouted an invitation to sit for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee after the Trump White House waived executive privilege for the testimony.
“With no privilege left to hide behind, Mr. Bernal is now running scared, desperate to bury the truth,” said Oversight chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)
Work husband?
In this case the coverup is far juicier than fights over ex-Presidents and other politicians – looking at you Senator Biden – holding onto classified documents, because this goes to the heart of the question people had been asking at least since Biden’s debate meltdown a year ago – who was really running the USA?
Also, if any of these people now refuse further Congressional summons they can be arrested and thrown in jail – another new rule established by the previous Democrat Congress that saw two Trump advisors arrested and jailed for that reason, part of the massive campaign of lawfare that the Democrat Party waged against anybody connected to the first Trump Administration.
Karma eh? As I said back in 2022:
This is not going to stop with a devastating election defeat this year or in 2024 but only when an empowered GOP is willing to play by these same rules and forgo the civility bullshit and “We’re better than that” attitudes. Until that happens – until people like the Democrats on this committee and elsewhere are subjected to the same rules they’re imposing on others, and are hurt in professional ways beyond mere voting losses – they will continue to push the boundaries of the norms of democracy and the rule of law in order to gain more power and hold on to it.
No Minister 
Very droll Tom, “President Autopen” and Campbells Soup!!
Did the dopy Dems think they would be in control of Executive and Legislative for ever or were they that thick.
To quote Bomber Harris:
They entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
The total destruction of any and all bipartisan attitudes between the two major Parties that is now happening across all western democracies is an abomination and it is hard to see how reason and civility will ever be restored?
But that simple step is essential if functioning democracy is ever to be reinstated.