A new watchdog report found that then-President Joe Biden may have been unaware of the details of at least eight environmental executive orders signed by autopen, Breitbart reported. This is significant given recent revelations about Biden's apparent cognitive impairment while in office.
The nonprofit Power the Future found "no evidence" that Biden was aware of the details of what was signed. Daniel Turner, the organization's founder and energy expert, said it was "troubling," considering most of Biden's actions were signed using an autopen.
Biden used this device to sign many of his documents in the waning days of his administration, a process which could presumably used by anyone. Turner believes this is a potential scandal, given the types of documents signed in this manner.
"These are not obscure bureaucratic memos; these were foundational shifts in American energy policy, yet not once did Joe Biden speak about them publicly," Turner noted. Because of the findings in the report, Turner sent a letter to the House and Senate Oversight Committees and several pertinent agencies.
Letters were sent to the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice, and others demanding an investigation. The letter to Republican House Oversight Chair James Comer makes the case that Congress needs to get involved.
The letter asserts there is "growing evidence that actions purportedly taken by the former president may not have been approved or signed by him," Power the Future said. Rather, it's possible they were signed by a "small coterie of advisers in his name without his knowledge or over his signature using an ‘autopen,'" the letter said.
"Congress deserves to know how or whether these executive actions were authorized, and whether the former President was aware of such orders before they were implemented by the federal bureaucracy. Were these actions taken on behalf of the president and purporting to execute his authority undertaken with the president’s knowledge and approval?" the letter continues.
"It appears incumbent upon Congress to inquire about all parties involved in these actions, who instructed them to do what, when," the letter urged. A review from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found a similar troubling result.
The conservative organization concluded that "every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency" used an autopen signature, except his announcement that he was withdrawing from his reelection bid. "Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency," the Oversight Project said.
Power the Future's review noted that the eight executive actions "that fundamentally reshaped American energy policy" came with "no evidence" that Biden ever spoke publicly about them. "Not in a press conference. Not in a speech. Not even a video statement," it said.
The policies included the 2022 Defense Production Act Invocation, which pushed for the use of solar panels and heat pumps, utilizing Cold War-era emergency powers. There were others in 2021, including a sweeping edict to eliminate carbon-producing electricity by 2030 and to switch the federal government over to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Despite the significant impact these and other orders would have, Biden didn't speak of them. This has profound implications considering revelations in Jake Tapper's book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
According to Fox News, Tapper admits that the cover-up of Biden's significant cognitive decline was "even worse than Watergate." If Biden was impaired and these orders were signed with an autopen, it calls into question the legality of all of it.
It was obvious that Biden was struggling mentally while Democrats and their media accomplices allegedly coordinated to hide that fact as the autopen continued to make law in the U.S. This is indeed an outrageous scandal for the ages if it's true.
