{"id":338723,"date":"2025-10-28T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:19:17","slug":"republicans-send-biden-autopen-report-to-the-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338723\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans send Biden autopen report to the Justice Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their long-promised report<\/a> on former President Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> use of the autopen, delivering a blistering critique of his time in office and inner circle that largely rehashes public information while making sweeping accusations about the workings of his White House.<\/p>\n

The GOP report does not include any concrete evidence that aides conspired to enact policies without Biden\u2019s knowledge or that the president was unaware of laws, pardons or executive orders signed in his name. But Republicans said their findings cast doubt on all of the Democrat\u2019s actions in office. They sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging a full investigation. Republican President Donald Trump ordered<\/a> a similar inquiry earlier this year. <\/p>\n

At its core, the report advances contested<\/a> claims that Biden\u2019s mental state declined to a degree that allowed White House officials to enact policies without his knowledge. It focuses heavily on the pardons he granted in office, including to his son, Hunter Biden, based on depositions with close Biden aides.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cost of the scheme to hide the fallout of President Biden\u2019s diminished physical and mental acuity was great but will likely never be fully calculated,\u201d the report reads. \u201cThe cover-up put American national security at risk and the nation\u2019s trust in its leaders in jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Biden has strenuously denied he was unaware of his administration\u2019s actions, calling such claims \u201cridiculous and false.\u201d Democrats on the House Oversight committee denounced the probe as a distraction and a waste of time.<\/p>\n

Republicans are shifting attention back to Biden<\/a> at a politically tumultuous time, 10 months into Trump\u2019s presidency, with the government shut down and Congress at a standstill over legislation to fund it. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has kept the House out of session for nearly a month, with most public-facing committee work grinding to a halt.<\/p>\n

Johnson touted the 100-page report at a news conference and said the findings could have \u201cmajor implications\u201d for the legality of Biden\u2019s actions as president, including pardons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president was checked out of his job for quite some time, and everybody knows it,\u201d Johnson said. <\/p>\n

The report on Biden was largely compiled over several months before the shutdown began. Based on interviews with more than a dozen members of Biden\u2019s inner circle, the report offers few new revelations, instead drawing broad conclusions from unanswered questions. <\/p>\n

It includes repeated references to polls of Biden\u2019s approval rating and perceptions of his public gaffes and apparent aging, much of it publicly known. <\/p>\n

It alleges a \u201ccover-up of the president\u2019s cognitive decline\u201d orchestrated by Biden\u2019s inner circle and takes particular aim at Biden\u2019s doctor, Kevin O\u2019Connor, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right against testifying. Republicans also singled out senior aides Anthony Bernal and Annie Tomasini, who similarly pleaded the Fifth. All three \u201cshould face further scrutiny\u201d from the Justice Department, Republicans said. <\/p>\n

Republicans also sent a letter to the D.C. Board of Medicine urging that O\u2019Connor face \u201cdiscipline, sanction or revocation of his medical license\u201d and \u201cbe barred from the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report does not include full transcripts of the multiple hours of recorded testimony witnesses delivered before the committee. It repeatedly scolds Biden officials and Democratic allies for defending Biden\u2019s mental state. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe inner-most circle, or cocoon, of the White House senior staff organized one of the largest scandals in American history \u2014 hiding a cognitively failing president and refusing any means of confirmation of such demise,\u201d the report says. <\/p>\n

While the report claims that record-keeping policies in the Biden White House \u201cwere so lax that the chain of custody for a given decision is difficult or impossible to establish,\u201d Republicans do not offer any concrete instances of the chain of command being violated or a policy being enacted without Biden\u2019s knowledge. <\/p>\n

Still, Republicans argue that Biden\u2019s use of the autopen<\/a> should be considered invalid unless there is documented proof of him approving a decision. <\/p>\n

\u201cBarring evidence of executive actions taken during the Biden presidency showing that President Biden indeed took a particular executive action, the committee deems those actions taken through use of the autopen as void,\u201d the report says. <\/p>\n

Democrats and legal experts have warned that broad scrutiny of executive actions could pose future legal headaches for the Trump administration and congressional Republicans, who also often enact policies directed by lawmakers through devices like the presidential autopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their long-promised report on former President Joe Biden\u2019s use of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":338724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[55414,3881,327,84,69,19887,57,86,56355,82,49864,90048,362,8119,50,11335,80,94,322,67,132,68,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-338723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-annie-tomasini","10":"tag-ap-top-news","11":"tag-congress","12":"tag-district-of-columbia","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-executive-orders","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-government-policy","17":"tag-hunter-biden","18":"tag-joe-biden","19":"tag-kevin-oconnor","20":"tag-law-and-order","21":"tag-legal-proceedings","22":"tag-mike-johnson","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-pam-bondi","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-u-s-department-of-justice","27":"tag-u-s-republican-party","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115452705261298473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}