It’s not a new controversy because
Barack Obama used it, but he was mentally fit to be president; Joe Biden
was not. There are still some questions regarding its
constitutionality, but the use of the autopen under Joe Biden has come under new scrutiny. The reason is simple and unsurprising: a top aide might have abused it (via NY Post):
A key aide to former President Joe Biden may have
exceeded their authority by liberally using an autopen to sign official
documents, according to two former White House sources, as President
Trump’s aides set up “far more restrictive” rules governing the use of
the mechanical device.
A document obtained by The Post outlines
the narrow set of circumstances in which Trump’s signature can be
affixed to documents, following controversy this week kicked off by a
Heritage Foundation analysis of Biden signatures on various records,
including last-minute pardons.
A small group of officials under
both Biden and Trump have been delegated the power to get documents
“signed” robotically, but 82-year-old Biden’s perceived cognitive
decline sparked debate about whether some aides may have assumed his
wishes in his final stretch as commander-in-chief.
One Biden
White House source told The Post they suspect that a key aide to the
then-president may have made unilateral determinations on what to
auto-sign. The Post is not publishing that staffer’s name due to the
lack of concrete evidence and refutations by other colleagues.
The
Biden aide, who did not respond to requests for comment, would
frequently make mention of what “the boss” wanted, the source said, but
compatriots would have “no idea” if it was true because the internal
culture was to not ask questions.
[…]
“Everyone” was
suspicious of this individual exceeding their authority when claiming to
speak for the president, the source said. “But no one would actually
say it.”
“I think [the aide] was using the autopen as standard and past protocol,” The Post’s informant said.
“There is no clarity on who actually approved what — POTUS or [the aide].”
A
second Biden White House source agreed that the person was suspected of
assuming the then-president’s positions and handing down orders without
it being clear if they actually had communicated with the
commander-in-chief.
It brings us back to our favorite question regarding the Biden White
House: who was in charge? After the June debate, where Biden imploded on
CNN before a national audience, which killed his re-election operation,
Hunter Biden was supposedly running the White House and sitting in on
sensitive meetings without a security clearance. Now, we have an alleged
rogue aide used the autopen with murky approval from the president.
Talk
about king chaos, folks. Let’s wait and see only because anonymous
sources aren’t what they used to be. We can thank an overzealous and
incompetent anti-Trump clown in the media discrediting this form of
confirmation.
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