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Who Signed Joe Biden’s Name?

This is a surprising – or perhaps not too surprising – twist in the was-Biden-senile game. Research by the Heritage Foundation’s investigative arm, called the Oversight Project, looked at every document it could get its hands on that Joe Biden “signed.”

Turns out that most of them were signed by autopen. We’re not talking about form letters. We’re talking about things such as executive orders.

If true, this raises several legitimate and very troubling questions.

  • Did Biden know that he was “signing” these documents?
  • Who had control of the autopen?
  • Was it ever used without Biden’s knowledge?
  • If Biden himself didn’t sign these documents, are they legally binding?

Matt Margolis at PJ Media notes that:

In 2013, Barack Obama became the first president to sign a bill into law using an autopen. He was vacationing in Hawaii at the time. His office relied on a 30-page memo from President George W. Bush’s legal team asserting that the president’s presence was not required as long as said president had authorized the signature. 

Biden himself once admitted to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he didn’t remember signing an executive order halting exports of liquid natural gas, which Johnson recounted in an interview with The Free Press. Johnson said he “walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, we’re in serious trouble. Who is running the country?”

This isn’t about retribution. This is about accountability. If people in the Biden administration were secretly running the country and signing official documents while an incapacitated president slept, someone needs to stand trial.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

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2 comments

  • 1) Perhaps his administrative flacks (AF) didn’t think Biden could remember or had the manual dexterity to sign. I don’t mean any disrespect-this was just a joke. But also, I believe, it’s true.
    2) This just shows how very stupid the AF’s were.
    Allowing an auto pen signature and his real signature to be compared gives credence (if the AF’s did make the Presidential decisions) that all the decisions made were not only illegitimate, but also were made by treacherous and ideological traitors.
    And we all know how stupid their decisions were, but also how all (?) of them conduced against the interests and welfare of our Country. Was this because of ideological stupidity or treachery-or both?
    As a start see the decisions on inflation, foreign affairs, the border.
    Recall also, it was shown and proven that there war no Russian collusion (the whole operation was manufactured by Hillary and swaths of Democratic Party operatives. And also, of course, by their media toadies).
    This article (if proved true) also shows that the REAL coup was committed not by the January 6th crowd but by Biden’s AF, traitors who need to be found out and executed as the perfidious traitors they are.
    They-an unelected cabal-took over the country, its Presidential office, and told the Government what to do and when to do it.
    It will be interesting to see if the horrid, homicidal and what could be the diabolical Afghanistan withdrawal was actually ordered by Biden-or did he just acquiesce once he found his AF’s ordered the withdrawal.
    Moreover, it demonstrates, if true, that Biden’s inner office (and most likely Jill) all knew that Biden was deficient-but all of them said nothing. Is this criminal? It should be!

  • If Biden didn’t sign the pardons personally they could be overturned – as could any other executed document.

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