House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer agrees that some of then-President Joe Biden's autopen pardons could be "null and void" given his cognitive decline and lack of involvement toward the end of his term, Breitbart reported. The Kentucky Republican made this bombshell admission while appearing on Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday.
Biden's cognitive decline was apparent even to outsiders, but those closest to him allowed him to continue on with his presidency and even run for reelection. The persistent questions about his possible impairment that they tried to sweep under the rug have come full circle with pardons he granted with the use of the autopen.
Other presidents have used the device, which signs documents in the president's handwriting, but there is a fair amount of evidence that these important documents were signed off on, perhaps without Biden's full knowledge or consent. Comer believes this is enough to undermine some of his most high-profile pardons.
Earlier in the interview, Comer had said that many factors, including the use of the autopen and the lack of evidence that Biden was fully aware it was happening, made his pardons "null and void." The host and former attorney, Laura Ingraham, pressed Comer on whether he truly thought that would be the outcome.
"Are you of the view that, for instance, Biden’s pardon of his brother Jim or, let’s say, Anthony Fauci, are you of the view that those pardons are null and void, given what you know?" Ingraham asked him of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "I am — absolutely 100%," Comer insisted.
"If anyone doubts whether or not there was a cover-up, they need to watch every minute of the testimony that we got, all of the hours and hours of depositions from these staffers, where you had people like Ian Sams, who was his spokesperson, who would come out every day and give press conferences, blasting me or blasting Robert Hur, or Jim Jordan or someone under oath when we asked him, 'How many times did you meet directly with Joe Biden?'" Comer recalled. Ian Sams had said it was just twice in two years, as did his executive secretary.
"That position is one of the closest to the president, whether it’s Obama, Trump, George Bush, Obama, she admitted that she would go weeks without having any interaction with Joe Biden. They clearly shielded him, not only from the American people, but from their inner staff. If he was an active participant, there would be notes," Comer said.
"There would be notes. The National Archives has no record of notes. There are no emails. It almost looks like they went back and changed their story from he approved it verbally and orally to we had memos and things like that. There were so many inconsistencies," Comer charged.
If what Comer says is true, he believes this will be enough for an investigation and perhaps for the pardons to be vacated. "And I think that the Department of Justice can bring all these people in, especially the three staffers and the doctor who pled the Fifth Amendment, and pressed them for more information, because at the end of the day, the American people know that Joe Biden was in a mental state of decline," Comer said.
"He hasn’t given a TV interview since he left office. The statement blasting my report today wasn’t from him. It was from an unnamed staffer," Comer went on.
The Kentucky Republican went on to say that the matter has been referred to Attorney General Pam Bondi. "We have handed her this investigation on a platter. We have done the heavy lifting: all the hours of depositions, traced the emails. We have proven no evidence Joe Biden was involved in the decision-making process," Comer said.
"She needs to bring people in, threaten accountability, threaten prosecution, get the truth from these people, and hold them accountable. We had a president of the United States who wasn't fit to serve, like tried to run him for a second term, and then they abused the autopen during the lame duck period," Comer said of the Democratic Party.
This issue is not going away regardless of how the left tries to ignore it. Many on their side have finally admitted that he was deteriorating, but none have gone as far as to say that they must scrutinize every action taken, including the times an autopen signed anything.
