How much did Joe know?
According to a New York Post report, former President Joe Biden used an autopen signature on many official White House documents, raising new questions about his cognitive state during his term.
The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project uncovered the shocking detail, prompting Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to suggest it could be used to challenge the legitimacy of orders that the 82-year-old former president signed.
“I am demanding the DOJ investigate whether President Biden’s cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval,” Bailey said.
“If true, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.”
From The New York Post:
One of the autopen-signed orders from Biden was an August 2022 directive meant to safeguard abortion access during emergency situations, Heritage said.
Another was a December 2024 order to close government offices Jan. 9, 2025, to honor late President Jimmy Carter.
The Post conducted a random brief scan of about three dozen signatures of executive orders in the Federal Register from President Trump, former President Barack Obama and Biden at various times in their presidencies.
All three men’s different signatures did not appear to change, although The Post’s review was briefer and less comprehensive than the Heritage Foundation’s.
Autopen signatures are produced by machine instead of being done by hand. Scores of presidents dating back to at least Harry Truman are believed to have leaned on the modern autopen.
“We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency,” the Oversight Project said last week.
“All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year.”
A clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson has resurfaced in the wake of the autopen news. In the clip, Johnson tells a story about Biden denying (or not remembering) that he signed an executive order.
Watch the clip below:
More over at The New York Post:
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