"Decline, Delusion and Deception in the White House" is the subtitle of the new report from the House Oversight Committee looking into "The Biden Autopen Presidency."

Over the four years of President Biden's term in office, it was increasingly apparent that the president's mental faculties were declining rapidly by the day. Many Americans became increasingly worried about who, exactly, in the absence of the President's mind, was really in charge?

Cynics, or just long-time observers of the American government, answered that, of course, the "Deep State" was running the country. However true that was -- and the fact that the Deep State exists and asserts considerable influence over the nation's public affairs notwithstanding -- the American government is supposed to be run by those elected to office by the American people. A shadow government, completely unaccountable and running the show in the shadow of a mere puppet as president would be an unprecedented scandal.

In fact, the Biden presidency -- in keeping with Democrat practice -- was an unprecedented scandal, as revealed most glaringly in the new report from the Oversight Committee. 

"Even more troubling than the president experiencing a decline in mental acuity was President Biden’s inner circle of loyalists attempting to mislead the nation to ignore what people’s eyes plainly showed them," the report begins in its Executive Summary. "Throughout President Biden’s term, people increasingly questioned if the slurring of words, mistaking of names, visible disorientation, confusion and dependence on aides for basic direction—all of which the public witnessed live—could indicate anything but the serious cognitive decline of President Biden. The Committee has investigated whether senior Biden White House officials possibly exercised the authority of the former president or intentionally concealed President Biden’s rapidly worsening mental and physical state. The Committee has found evidence to indicate they did both."

That evidence, the Report indicates, shows in particular that "the Biden Autopen Presidency ranks among the greatest scandals in U.S. history."

And that's saying quite a lot considering past Democrat administrations, especially that of Bill Clinton and his wanton behavior in the White House.

Concerning the Biden administration, the report continues:

"As President Biden declined, his staff abused the autopen and a lax chain-of-command policy to effect executive actions that lack any documentation of whether they were in fact authorized. While President Biden became progressively less able to do his job—when every measure should have been taken to document and, if ever questioned, prove that President Biden had made final decisions—White House staff took shortcuts and ad hoc actions to keep the Biden presidency afloat. The Committee has found that there was, in fact, a cover-up of the president’s cognitive decline and that there is no record demonstrating President Biden himself made all of the executive decisions that were attributed to him."

Key Findings from the Biden Autopen Report

In a summary of the report, the Committee extracted its key findings:

  • Biden’s Decline and Cover-Up: The Oversight Committee found substantial evidence that President Joe Biden experienced significant mental and physical decline during his presidency, while senior White House officials actively sought to conceal his deterioration from the public. President Biden’s inner circle, including top advisors and his physician, undertook coordinated efforts to mislead the public regarding his cognitive state, using scripted messaging, restricted access, and tightly controlled appearances. White House staff meticulously controlled President Biden’s daily activities, public appearances, and workload to mask his declining capabilities. This included restricting media access, avoiding unscripted events, and even seeking input from Hollywood figures on presentation strategy. Key advisors, including senior strategist Mike Donilon, stood to gain financially and politically from maintaining President Biden’s candidacy and suppressing evidence of his decline.

  • Gaslighting the American Public over Concerns about Biden’s Debate Performance and Cognitive Decline: Even a year later, President Biden’s former senior circle denies not only that his cognitive decline was on full display in his 2024 debate with President Trump, but that the public was ever even concerned about cognitive decline. In their view, public concern about Biden’s debate performance was about his “bad cold” and more general feelings about potential limitations due to his advanced age.

  • Political Interference in Medical Decisions and Failure of Medical Oversight: Testimony from senior officials, including Jeff Zients and Anita Dunn, revealed that political advisors interfered with decisions regarding President Biden’s medical evaluations, explicitly rejecting calls for cognitive testing to protect his reelection prospects. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the President’s physician, did not perform a cognitive assessment of President Biden and invoked his Fifth Amendment right when questioned by the Committee. Testimony suggests that Dr. O’Connor’s medical judgments were influenced by political advisors and that his financial ties to the Biden family presented conflicts of interest.

  • Referral of Biden’s Physician to D.C. Board of Medicine: Chairman Comer recommends that the District of Columbia Board of Medicine review the actions taken by Dr. O’Connor while serving as the White House physician to President Biden for any potential wrongdoing in the medical care of the former president—including whether Dr. O’Connor produced false or misleading medical reports to the American people.

  • Exercise of Presidential Authority by Biden Aides, Making Executive Actions Signed by Autopen Invalid: Senior Biden staff exercised presidential authority or facilitated executive actions without direct authorization from President Biden himself, including through misuse of the autopen and failures in documenting decision-making processes. The Oversight Committee found alarming deficiencies in the documentation and custody of the President’s decision binder, including instances where executive actions were executed without written authorization or clear record of the President’s approval. The Committee identified irregularities in the issuance of pardons and commutations during the final days of the Biden presidency, including those involving members of the Biden family, where the autopen was used without confirmed presidential authorization or proper documentation.

  • Referral to DOJ for Review of Executive Actions and Key Aides Involved in the Cover-Up: Chairman Comer is calling on the Department of Justice conduct a comprehensive review of all executive actions taken during the Biden presidency and is referring key Biden aides—Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal—for further scrutiny after they took the Fifth Amendment during the investigation. 

Comer: Biden Autopen is Void

Based on the new Committee Report, Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the Oversight Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking for an official investigation into the autopen scandal.

In the letter, Comer states that the "Committee deems void President Biden's executive actions that were signed using the autopen, and the Committee determines that action by the Department of Justice is warranted to address the legal consequences of that determination."