The GOP-led panel has cited the alleged abuse of the autopen by the ex-president’s aides, who supposedly covered up his mental decline
Joe Biden’s “inner circle” made concerted efforts to conceal the former US president’s “cognitive decline” during his time in office, a report by the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has claimed. The Republican-led panel also questioned some the pardons that bore his signature, alleging that his aides had unimpeded access to his autopen.
In a document released on Tuesday titled ‘The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House’, the committee chaired by Rep. James Comer concluded that “Biden’s inner circle of loyalists [had attempted] to mislead the nation” regarding the president’s “diminishing mental and physical capabilities.” The lawmakers charged that this bore all the hallmarks of a “cover-up.”
“As President Biden declined, his staff abused the autopen and a lax chain-of-command policy to effect executive actions that lack any documentation of whether they were in fact authorized,” the committee alleged.
The panel singled out the “clemency actions taken in the final days of the Biden presidency” affecting violent convicted criminals.
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