The House Oversight Committee has released a major report detailing the findings of its investigation into alleged efforts to conceal President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the controversy surrounding the use of an autopen for official documents.
Alongside the report, the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi calling for a comprehensive investigation into all of President Biden’s executive actions. The committee also urged the Department of Justice to question several senior White House officials who declined to cooperate with the inquiry, including Jill Biden’s chief of staff Anthony Bernal, Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, and White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor.
The report detailed how much the Biden team stage managed things for Biden from addressing his “makeup, clothing, and schedule” to even “the number of steps” that he could walk or climb and the amount of time he “needed to read and to spend with his family,” as well as “keeping cabinet meetings to a minimum, eliciting ‘direction’ from Hollywood on the State of the Union and other events, and using teleprompters even at small, intimate events.”
The report also urged the D.C. Board of Medicine to open an investigation into O’Connor’s conduct. According to the committee, O’Connor invoked his Fifth Amendment right when asked whether he had “ever been told to lie” about President Biden’s health or if he had ever believed the president was “unfit to execute his duties.”
“His refusal to answer questions about the execution of his duties as physician to the president — combined with testimony indicating that Dr. O’Connor may have succumbed to political pressure from the inner circle, influencing his medical decisions and aiding in the cover-up — legitimizes the public’s concerns that Dr. O’Connor was not forthright in carrying out his ultimate duties to the country,” says the House report.
Then there was the autopen scandal, which Chair of the Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer (KY-1), deemed “one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.”
The report stated that not all of Biden’s executive actions “can be deemed his own,” citing concerns over documents signed using an autopen. It asserted that several of those actions — including certain presidential pardons — should be considered null and void, as they lacked any “approval traceable” to Biden’s direct consent:
Asked directly whether he even knew who operated the autopen, former White House chief of staff Jeff Zients — who approved 11th-hour pardons for first family members on Jan. 19, 2025 — answered bluntly in an transcribed interview with the committee: “I do not.”
That said, guess who was involved in some of those late-term pardons?
Hunter Biden weighed in on some of those “family discussions” of pardons “towards the end, the very end of the administration,” Zients also admitted.
“The authority to grant pardons is not provided to the president’s inner circle. Nor can it be delegated to particular staff when a president’s competency is in question,” the report notes. “Importantly, even if this authority could be delegated — which it cannot — it would have to be expressly delegated by President Biden himself.”
Pardoning who, exactly?
“This apparently included the meeting to discuss the pardons of five Biden family members, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and the members of Congress who served on the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, and their staff,” the report said.
Now that this report is out, it’s time for the DOJ to shift into high gear, get on this, and hold people accountable.
