The autopen-wielders may face interrogation
Comer would like to have a word with them:
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday wrote to key aides to President Joe Biden demanding that they sit for transcribed interviews as part of his investigation into the former president’s mental decline and the potentially unauthorized use of an autopen for executive actions. …
“The cover-up of President Biden’s obvious mental decline is a historic scandal. The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf,” Comer said in a press release. “Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden’s diminished capacity.”
“Today, we are calling on President Biden’s physician and former White House advisors to participate in transcribed interviews so we can begin to uncover the truth,” he added. “In the last Congress, the Biden White House blocked these individuals from providing testimony to the Oversight Committee as part of the effort to cover-up Biden’s declining health.
There’s not a whole lot that usually comes from these hearings, but one can hope. I like to think that even some Democrats are angry about the fact that the man they voted for, Biden, was having many of his presidential actions taken over by a bunch of relatively unknown and unelected figures.
Then again, if they approve of what those people did, they probably won’t care at all. One leftist is just as good as another.
They’ll just say the president was briefed on these things or some other weasly thing that will be impossible to disprove.
The real tell will be if/when any of those really close to the Bidens get new jobs. Will all be forgotten? I think we know the answer to that.
Were the people listed as being in “the inner circle” granted a pre-pardon by “Biden”?
All of them?
Some of them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_First_Circle
Just curious….
One is forced to conclude Democrats are an anti-American Republic force, now about 50 % of the electorate, pretty implacable in government, and as unified as Stalinist members of the US communist party were and are. They are a large majority of the Federal work force, unelected and immovable. Gramsci wins!
Which means that America is doomed to become just another grubby country, soon to resemble South Africa.
None of my lefty friends are at all concerned. More upset about either the 747, South Africa prez treatment, etc. ie the usual whatever makes Trump look bad.
That’s nice that they’ll be called for a ‘transcribed interview’, but….. will they first be placed under oath?
I would like to believe there is some way an investigation of Biden’s inner circle would “find the smoking gun.” That is, someone would come forward to say “yeah, we knew he was out of it, but we just decided to keep running the government as if he was telling us what to do. We knew, after all, what his policies were.” I don’t see that happening. I see them circling the wagons and insisting he was telling them what to do, even though he was sleepy at times.
I would also like to know the hierarchy of decision making in the absence of directions from Joe. Was it Dr. Jill who was giving instructions? Hunter? Ron Klain? Someone else? Please let’s put our finger on someone who is truly culpable above all of creating this myth, this fabrication, that we had a functioning president.
Absent that, let’s throw every person who was within one degree of separation of the President in Leavenworth for five years.
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According to this, there is an inner-circle whistleblower.
“Which means that America is doomed to become just another grubby country, soon to resemble South Africa.” Cicero
No. That 50% are willfully blind to Orwell’s warning… “So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire. By people who don’t even know that fire… is hot.”
Instead and in response, the other 50 % of the electorate will if necessary, bring to fruition JFK’s warning, “Those who make peaceful
revolutionreform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”In their hubristic certainty, they are blind to the irony; Trump is the one keeping them from reaping the fate of those who “seek to cut down all the laws”.
There is a limit to putting up with “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism”
The Alberta Independence movement is the latest example of patience running out with ‘legal’ tyranny.
Just to repeat a previous comment of mine; Comer’s investigation will be like questioning Sgt. Schultz (of Hogan’s Hero’s fame).
Those questioned will “know nothing.” They will have seen nothing. They will have heard nothing.
Like pretty much all congressional investigations, they produce reports that nobody reads and does not result in any real punishment for the miscreants.
On another topic; recall the shooting of Arizona’s Gabby Gifford and how many blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting.
You watch; the media will be twisting their knickers attempting to demonstrate that all the pro-Hamas, anti-semite, kill-the-jews rhetoric emanating from the pro-Hamas demonstrators had absolutely nothing to do with the recent murder of the two Israeli embassy individuals.
Jewish folks had better start carrying concealed guns on their persons.
The media – all liberal progressive, hate-america-firsters – just like their pals in academia and within the demonkrat party will not be happy until the USA has an absolute dictator in the mold of Castro or Stalin in total control of the US govt.
Comer is bought and paid for by Fox News. These congressional hearings result in nothing and are for show only. He argued on Fox that a special counsel wasn’t needed but a congressional hearing would be better. Gaslighting BS! Congress has no intent of doing anything constructive.
Geoffrey-
Let’s see which of us is right. I just believe America has been made too wimpy for much too long for us gun owners to shoot fellow Americans however wretched they be, since before the 1960s.
Antonio Gramsci’s thesis has been exercised now for more than two generations. That is what the Harvard thing is about, and why we have left-wing control of the media, education, Hollywood, and individual federal district judges that do one-up the entire Executive branch.
One can hope something comes from this but don’t hold you breath for it.
I suspect Deep State and Marxists are fine the way it all went down.
Nothing of _legal_ consequence is likely to come of the hearings.
Politically it’s another matter.
Drip drip drip drip drip….
That’s how the Dems brought down Bush II. Day in day out, a constant drip drip drip of ‘Bush lied and people died’, ‘war for oil’ etc. At first little effect, but Bush refused to fight back and so it gradually sunk in and took hold.
(Karl Rove admitted later that he was advising Bush not to fight back, to ‘let it blow over’, and that he had been wrong. No kidding, Karl.)
Politically, the ‘Biden is still sharp’ scandal has become a nightmare for the press, and thus the Dems. It’s part of why they’re having trouble raising Dem poll numbers, or keeping Trump’s down. It’s forcing the Dems to look for scapegoats on their own side.
This stuff about the autopen likely won’t bring prosecutions (and probably should not for poltical reasons), but it’s still part of a daily drip drip drip that’s keeping the Dems off balance and flailing.
It absolutely should bring prosecutions. AND CONVICTIONS
“It absolutely should bring prosecutions. AND CONVICTIONS” — johnny b goode
For what? For what _specific_ crimes?
If it gets that far, they’re going to have Biden come out and claim he authorized it. That would be impossible to disprove. The prosecutor could claim Biden was not competent to authorize it, but that counts for nothing, only Congress can remove a President’s authority, either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment process.
In practice, the charges would end up being vague and the targets would be hard to separate out from the crowd. It would be one of those situations where everybody was a little bit guilty, but only of stuff that’s only debatably criminal and individually only to small degrees.
While you’re at it, you might as well charge Jill Biden and Biden’s campaign staff with ‘elder abuse’. It’s probably true in a factual sense, but it’s not something that would lend itself to a clear-cut criminal prosecution.
More importantly, we would be confirming the horrible precedent that the Dems set with their prosecutions of Trump after he left office in 2021. Plus, we would be adding more bad precedents to it. Regardless of the legal merits, it would look to the public like another case of an outgoing President being prosecuted by the opposition for political reasons…and there would be political motives mixed in, inevitably.
Justified morally and legally or not, it would another long step toward a situation where basically _every_ President faces prosecution from the opposition as soon as he leaves office. Which would be a long step down the same road that destroyed the Roman Republic.
Historically, even when it’s been pretty clear crimes were committed, America has mostly refrained from prosecuting outgoing Presidents for just that reason. You can’t make it non-political, the side effects are nasty, the payoff too low.
A President who committed a clear cut provable major crime like murder or rape or something could be impeached and then prosecuted without that risk, yes. But this isn’t like that.
I know it’s not very satisfying, but it’s almost surely better to be content with tying the Biden scandals around the Dems’ neck and letting the political damage be the punishment. We need to get _OFF_ this road of tit for tat paybacks in the legal system, that road leads to disaster.