Biden Autopen Scandal Erupts: House Declares Key Executive Orders ‘Invalid’

"The cover-up was facilitated by extremely loyal senior staff... both of whom pleaded the Fifth Amendment before the Committee."

There’s always been a quiet suspicion among millions of Americans that President Joe Biden wasn’t really calling the shots. That suspicion has now turned into a full-blown scandal.

According to the final report just released by the House Oversight Committee, a pattern of abuse and deception surrounded Biden’s use of an autopen to sign off on major presidential orders — including pardons, commutations, and sweeping executive actions — during the final months of his presidency.

The findings raise profound constitutional questions. If a president didn’t directly authorize key executive actions, are they even legal?

In an era where transparency is in short supply and accountability is often viewed as optional, this report lands like a political earthquake. The “Biden Autopen Presidency,” as the committee now calls it, appears to have operated in a gray zone of authority — where staff signed presidential documents without verifying his direct input, and in some cases, without any verifiable record of his involvement at all.

Some aides even took the Fifth Amendment under oath, refusing to answer key questions. This isn’t just about process. It’s about the possibility that the President of the United States was a figurehead for unelected staff making decisions in his name — and now, the Justice Department is being called on to investigate.

The final report is out, folks, and it’s not pretty. After three months of digging, interviewing Biden’s senior aides, and reviewing internal records, the House Oversight Committee has concluded that a significant number of President Joe Biden’s final executive orders — including high-stakes clemency decisions and federal policy directives — may be invalid.

Why? Because they were signed not by Biden’s hand, but by a machine. And worse, there’s no real evidence that Biden even approved them.

This is a constitutional crisis. In the words of Oversight Chairman James Comer, “The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.” He’s not exaggerating. The report describes how White House staff, aware of Biden’s visible decline, used the autopen to simulate presidential approval, while misleading Americans about the truth. And when asked about it under oath, key figures refused to answer — invoking their Fifth Amendment rights.

The cover-up was facilitated by extremely loyal senior staff, including Annie Tomasini, deputy chief of staff to President Biden, and Anthony Bernal, chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden—both of whom pleaded the Fifth Amendment before the Committee. Bernal pleaded the Fifth Amendment when asked if any unelected official or family members executed the duties of the president, and Tomasini invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if anyone in the Biden family or at the White House ever asked her to lie about President Biden’s health.

That alone should set off alarm bells in Washington. Presidential aides — including his personal physician and the First Lady’s chief of staff — covered up this treasonous behavior for years. And then the Democratic Party carried out a soft “coup” to remove a duly elected president from the 2024 election picture — Pelosi reportedly threatened Biden with the 25th amendment and the rest was history.

According to the report, presidential decisions during Biden’s final year were sometimes approved “verbally” or through undocumented conversations. Staffers like Neera Tanden, who oversaw decision materials, admitted she saw the president only once every six to eight weeks. Jeff Zients, Biden’s last chief of staff, confessed that he’d never seen a formal “decision memo” guiding autopen usage — meaning there was no clear process, no paper trail, and no certainty that Biden was even aware of what was being signed.

That’s not a presidency. That’s a puppet show. And the media sat and watched as if they were members of the peanut gallery.

The most explosive revelation involves Biden’s mass pardons and clemency orders — some of which affected death row inmates, drug sentencing policies, and even Biden family associates.

The National Archives could not locate contemporaneous staff notes or documentation proving Biden attended any of the four key clemency meetings in late 2024 and early 2025. Instead, staff claimed he gave “verbal approval.” That’s convenient. Especially when retroactive emails were the only evidence that Biden was present.

Even the New York Times, in a rare moment of clarity, noted that Biden did not individually approve the names involved in his mass pardons. In short: staffers presented Biden with policy categories, and they — not the president — took care of the details. Now that process is being challenged by congressional investigators, who say that absent documentation, those pardons could be legally null and void.

What’s more disturbing is the emerging portrait of a White House that didn’t even bother to hide it. Internal testimony revealed there was no uniform standard for authorizing the autopen, and the chain of command was so broken that even senior aides didn’t know who was approving orders. It’s as if the highest office in the land was running on muscle memory — a shadow administration acting in the president’s name without oversight or consequence.

Now, the House Oversight Committee is calling for the Justice Department to investigate whether criminal acts were committed — not just in the use of the autopen, but in the concealment of how it was deployed. If executive actions were carried out without the president’s actual approval, the implications are staggering. Laws, pardons, and policies may be invalid. People who were freed from prison, contracts that were signed, and funds that were allocated — all of it may have been done without legitimate authority.

This report doesn’t just raise questions about Biden’s cognitive fitness — it confirms, with documented evidence, that senior staff took advantage of his condition to operate a presidency in name only. They abused the sacred office of the presidency. They forged legitimacy with an autopen. And they tried to convince the American public that nothing was wrong.

The Biden mental health cover-up is unraveling. The Oversight Committee has laid out the evidence: Now, it’s time for the Justice Department to act.

The Biden Autopen Presidency is a scandal that cuts to the core of our constitutional system — and Americans deserve answers.

UPDATE: Attorney General Pam Bondi has responded to the report.