Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations signed in his name via autopen, the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee asserted in a letter it sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to consider whether that clemency might be invalid and to take action for potential prosecution against some of Biden’s aides.
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,” it wrote to Bondi released Tuesday morning.
If you’re going to make that claim, then there’s no particular reason to bring up the autopen. He was either aware of what he was signing or he wasn’t.
Naturally, they won’t use the same argument on Trump despite far more evidence of cognitive decline.
Trump is pardoning so many people it could be argued that the volume makes it unlikely he’s “aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations”.
As with anything else here, “auto pen” is one of the objects of aggrievement Trump’s leaky puddle of a brain has clinged in to, and the handlers throw it in these memos to appease him. It’s the exact same reason he is still ranting about the navy’s catapults. I guarantee you that in private he does nothing but talk random times people have disagreed with him over the years.