Dozens of executive orders signed by former President Joe Biden were approved with the same automatic pen signature. It raises important questions about whether he is fully aware that he is signing, critics say.
The Conservative Heritage Foundation Surveillance Project has urged Biden detractors, such as Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, to suggest that it could be used to challenge the legitimacy of the order signed by the 82-year-old former president, especially given concerns about his recognition.
“I am asking the DOJ to investigate whether President Biden's cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push radical policies without knowing his approval,” Bailey said. I said.
“If so, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally invalid.”
The post conducted a random, simple scan of about 3 dozen signatures itself Presidential Order in the Federal Register From President Trump, former President Barack Obama and Biden, at various times during their president.
Although all the different signatures of the three men seemed unchanged, the reviews for the post were less comprehensive than the Heritage Foundation review.
Autopen signatures are generated by machines instead of being done manually. The president's score, at least going back to Harry Truman, is believed to have leaned against a modern-day autopen.
“We've gathered all the documents we can find during the course of Biden's presidency,” the Surveillance Project said last week.
“Everyone used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former president had dropped out of the race last year.”
The surveillance project revealed examples of Biden's signatures on the two executive orders it speculated. It contrasted with the image of his signature in a letter announcing he had withdrawn from the 2024 presidential contest.
Biden's signatures on the two executive orders looked essentially identical, but there were slight differences in the signatures in the letter regarding the withdrawal from the race in 2024, including the lack of “Jr.” At the end of his name. It simply said “Jr Biden.”
Biden has been seen engaged in public contracts that sign ceremonies multiple times throughout his presidency. The amount he used the automatic pen remains unknown exactly.
Biden's representative did not respond to requests to post comments.
In Biden's cognitive status jab, the surveillance project cheated, “the person who controlled the autopen controls the presidency.”
Questions about Biden's mental vision took his time. To close his presidency at age 82, Biden became the oldest president in US history, but the 78-year-old Trump has been on track to surpass him by months.
Biden had a tendency to argue with his words and sometimes seemingly disorient him.
During the trip, Biden began boarding Air Force 1 using shorter staircase flights rather than the traditional 18-foot staircase.
His aides and allies initially denied concerns about his mental state, claiming that he was more than ever to reach work.
However, when he faces Trump at the debate stage in late June, when concerns about his potential weaknesses often reach a hot pitch, it often appears to have aggressed his stone-faced mouth while losing his line of thought.
A democratic rebellion soon erupted, and within just three weeks Biden succumbed from the race.
“There is deep reason to suspect that Biden's staff and political allies have exploited the mental decline of issuing presidential orders without knowing their approval,” Bailey wrote in a letter to the DOJ WatchDog last week.
Bailey cited House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) accusations that Biden personally forgot about the executive action he took on natural gas during the conversation the two had.
Concerns about the president's use of autopens have been swirling for some time.
Former President George W. Bush previously had entrusted the Department of Justice to assess the constitutionality of the Autopen, but government lawyers have concluded that it is legal.
Bush decided not to use the autopen due to concerns that it could be challenged, his administration official He told ABC News.
However, his successor, 63, was known to have used an autopen in key documents, including signing the 2013 Fiscal Cliff Compromise Bill.
