President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into former President Joe Biden’s use of autopen to sign pardons and other important documents.
According to the Associated Press, House Republicans have also taken steps to investigate the matter and have requested interviews with Biden’s former members of his administration.
“This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history,” Trump wrote in a memo. “The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts.”
Biden told AP, “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Counsel David Warrington will be responsible for handling the investigation.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, called for transcribed interviews with five aides to President Biden, asserting that they were involved in a “cover-up” he described as one of the most significant scandals in the nation’s history.
“These five former senior advisors were eyewitnesses to President Biden’s condition and operations within the Biden White House,” Comer said in a statement. “They must appear before the House Oversight Committee and provide truthful answers about President Biden’s cognitive state and who was calling the shots.”
The former White House senior advisers include Mike Donilon and Anita Dunn, Ron Klain, Bruce Reed and Steve Ricchetti.
Comer repeated his request for President Biden’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, along with former senior White House aides Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams, and Neera Tanden, to testify before the committee.
“I think that people will start coming in the next two weeks,” Comer told reporters. “We’ll release the transcribed interviews, so it’ll be very transparent.”
U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill, (R-Texas.) celebrated the inquiry.
“The American people didn’t elect a bureaucracy to run the country,” Gill said. “I think that the American people deserve to know the truth and they want to know the truth of what happened.”
The investigation has largely focused on the final executive actions of President Biden’s administration, including newly issued federal regulations and presidential pardons that critics argue could be invalid.
Comer referenced the book Original Sin by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, which states, “Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.”
