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House Oversight Chairman James Comer says his committee has uncovered fresh evidence in the so-called Biden autopen scandal that could, in his view, call the legitimacy of many executive actions into question — including pardons issued late in the Biden presidency. Comer and his GOP-led panel insist inconsistent testimony, missing documentation, and aides who pleaded the Fifth raise real doubts about whether the president personally authorized those actions.
The committee’s final report, bluntly titled The Biden Autopen Presidency, alleges White House aides repeatedly used an autopen to reproduce the president’s signature while his cognitive capacity declined, and that proper, contemporaneous approvals are often missing from the record. Republicans on the panel argue that without a clear chain of custody showing Biden’s direct consent, courts should have grounds to scrutinize and even vacate suspect pardons and orders.
Make no mistake: this is not merely procedural nitpicking. If staffers effectively exercised presidential power without real presidential oversight, we are staring at a constitutional crisis disguised as routine bureaucracy — and the American people deserve answers. Chairman Comer is right to demand a Department of Justice review and for investigators to follow the paper trail until every question is resolved.
Skeptics and many mainstream fact-checkers push back, reminding Americans that historical memos and legal opinions have long treated mechanical signatures as legally valid and that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly require a handwritten signature for pardons. Those legal precedents are relevant, but they don’t excuse a cover-up or the deliberate concealment of a president’s true mental state by aides eager to hold power behind the scenes.
The White House predictably denies wrongdoing and insists President Biden personally approved all actions, while Democrats label the probe a partisan fishing expedition. But when multiple senior aides offer inconsistent stories and key witnesses invoke the Fifth, ordinary citizens have every right to be skeptical of comfortable narratives from partisan allies.
This moment calls for toughness, not timidity. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice should treat Comer’s referrals seriously, examine whether any laws were broken, and determine if any purported pardons were issued without lawful authority. The rule of law must be more than a slogan on a campaign sign — it must be enforced equally, without fear or favor.
Hardworking Americans deserve a simple promise: transparency and accountability. If the autopen was used as a smoke screen for a shadow presidency, those who abused power must be exposed and held accountable, and courts must be allowed to settle this once and for all so future administrations cannot hollow out the presidency while hiding behind robotic signatures.
