Biden Pushes Back on Autopen Investigation:
‘I Made the Decisions’
National Review,
by
Moria Gleason
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/5/2025 12:50:39 PM
Facing a federal investigation into his use of an autopen to sign executive actions, former President Joe Biden insists he was in control of the White House for the past four years.
“I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump declared his predecessor’s last-minute pardons void early this year after the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project discovered the pardons were signed by a mechanical autopen rather than by the president’s own hand.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
EQKimball 6/5/2025 12:55:39 PM (No. 1960268)
Interesting. So what took him so long?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/5/2025 12:57:53 PM (No. 1960269)
What else will he be expected to say? He lies and always has. Brooked as a dog's hind leg. Don't be concerned about the procedures. Letters asking them to appear,, followed by the subpoenas for the unwilling... The parties tend to self-vet ...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 6/5/2025 1:04:45 PM (No. 1960273)
WHO wrote this “statement”? Likely wasn’t Xiden.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/5/2025 1:16:37 PM (No. 1960281)
Was he able to say that using his actual mouth?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/5/2025 1:19:32 PM (No. 1960283)
Says the guy whose capacity was so enfeebled that that he was allowed to skate on the stolen documents in his garage.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/5/2025 1:23:02 PM (No. 1960286)
I made the decisions that F-ed up this country. s/o My grandmother and mother both suffered from Alzheimer's. One thing I learned was to never give them a choice as they were incapable of making a decision on anything. So instead of asking "Would you like peas or corn with dinner" it was "We are having corn with dinner". This statement from FJB is basic BS CYA probably encouraged by Mrs. FJB to make them appear relevant. (If he even actually said it). It was probably as simple as "Mr. President would you like to use autopen on these documents?" "Yes, please". He knew nothing or if he was in the loop he immediately forgot it once the pudding was topped with whipped cream and passed his way.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 6/5/2025 1:28:04 PM (No. 1960288)
Said by the man who got lost in his closet.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Right Time 6/5/2025 1:32:12 PM (No. 1960289)
What did anyone expect the lying grifter to say?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Quigley 6/5/2025 1:34:42 PM (No. 1960290)
I think he's going to have to say "which" decisions not just "the" decisions.
Thought experiment: In a court case to declare a pardon to be void: Can an aid testify that "yes, I heard Biden say 'I approve
that pardon' " or would that be inadmissible hearsay? In other words, does The Lazy Cadaver have to testify that 'yes, i made that decision to pardon mr. x,' and then is it a quesion of fact for the jury to decide 'yes we believe him' or 'no, we don't believe him'?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/5/2025 2:09:36 PM (No. 1960303)
Re #1, it takes a long time to get him programmed and wound up... Obie may not be hooked up to his earpiece any more...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/5/2025 2:14:58 PM (No. 1960306)
Um,Robert Hur let him off the hook because he found him to be an old man with a very poor memory. And how many pardons did "he" sign?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 6/5/2025 2:28:32 PM (No. 1960311)
If Biden made the decision to use autopen, then why not just sign the old fashioned way - by hand? Why create controversy? In addition, is there a document, personally signed by Biden, giving the autopen the power of attorney to sign his name to legal documents that have bearing on millions of citizens? Would that even be legal? Also, if he was cognitive enough to authorize autopen, then he is competent enough to stand trial for his crimes. But, as we know, they're just making it up as they go. My guess is, if the autopen controversy makes it to the SC, the justices will wimp out and declare it constitutional - of which there is not basis in law. The Supreme's don't want to get in the middle of this.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 6/5/2025 2:28:37 PM (No. 1960312)
Start asking him the questions. Someone there must know how to cross exam. Nail his hide to the wall and show no mercy. If he wants to excuse the criminal actions, greater than any in our history, put the matter to rest. Stop the cover-up. Keep the promises. We were promised to right the economic ship and we were promised to hang the pirates. They are still using him the same way they have been using him for the last four years. He's the guy we are going to have to go through. It's ugly but promises were made and there is still plenty of evil left in them. We need to put it out there for all to see and we need arrests, not politics. All this mess can be traced right back to the individual politicians. It has been good to see the fraud and waste that Doge found but it is not being traced back to the crooks running the show. Do it. Make Gaetz special counsel/prosecutor and let him do the job. They just shot a big hole in the plan with this BBB joke. We cannot afford this hits, fight back.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/5/2025 2:47:52 PM (No. 1960321)
Was this the Real Biden, or one of the clones/imposters that said this?
And if it was the Real Biden, how long did they have to coach him to say it?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 6/5/2025 2:51:56 PM (No. 1960324)
How would he even know WHAT decisions?
Clueless old senile traitor.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
AbingtonJim 6/5/2025 2:55:07 PM (No. 1960327)
The guy can't speak in coherent sentences and they expect us to believe that he wrote this? Fool me once...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
sw penn 6/5/2025 3:15:27 PM (No. 1960342)
Easy enough to prove...
Put pardons, real and fabricated, in front of him
ask him to point out the fakes.
The truth will out..
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 6/5/2025 3:28:12 PM (No. 1960347)
Biden possibly made the decisions that he 'knows about'. Someone else made all the others.....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 6/5/2025 3:37:12 PM (No. 1960351)
" and Jill said that I need to say this...right, Jill?"
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/5/2025 3:54:49 PM (No. 1960363)
Of course they were going to get Biden to say that “he” made the decisions! He most probably said that by reading it off his teleprompter!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DanvilleBill 6/5/2025 4:59:59 PM (No. 1960392)
Most people who know US history believe that Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan
were the worst presidents we've ever had.
I believe the consensus will very soon rank Biden below those two;
so Joey will have Last Place all to himself.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 6/5/2025 5:00:30 PM (No. 1960393)
Sure. Yet you were not aware that one of your EOs shut down shipment of liquified natural gas to Europe for weeks. Way to stay on top of things, Joe.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 6/5/2025 6:25:06 PM (No. 1960432)
Ask him "What decisions?"
And then roll tape.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/5/2025 6:32:17 PM (No. 1960434)
How many times did they have to get him to rehearse that line?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 6/5/2025 9:11:30 PM (No. 1960517)
So then why didn't he run for President of the USA again?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/5/2025 10:15:13 PM (No. 1960533)
OK Joey, you will get a Subpoena to talk to Congress for Oversight. If you can't specifically tell us the exact date and time and what you signed for we will believe you. Of course you will get lost in the Closet at Congress. Good Luck with that!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 6/6/2025 7:06:36 AM (No. 1960647)
From the NY Post:
President Biden had no clue whether or not he signed a critical executive order during a conversation last year with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who admitted he left the meeting fearing the nation is in “serious trouble.”
An addled Biden insisted to the Louisiana lawmaker that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits — even though he signed off on it less than a month earlier.
Johnson told the Free Press’ Bari Weiss he didn’t believe Biden was lying, but was left to believe the then-81-year-old leader “genuinely didn’t know what he had signed.”
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/6/2025 7:58:11 AM (No. 1960668)
What a total liar. He'll get in trouble if he doesn't deny these accusations. Someone in the background is always threatening to cause "trouble" for FJB. Whoever that is, it's someone he fears. I'd like to see everything collapse legally for him before his body physically dies. Before he gets to the warm, warm climates he's destined for, let the legal consequences of fifty years of bribery start happening. Any political party that would elevate the likes of him to power is a party Americans can do without.
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