FROM FOX NEWS: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) conduct a “comprehensive” investigation into former President Joe Biden’s autopen use.
The committee’s GOP majority released a 100-page report on Tuesday morning detailing findings from its monthslong probe into Biden’s White House, specifically whether his inner circle covered up signs of mental decline in the ex-president, and if that alleged cover-up extended to executive actions signed via autopen without Biden’s full awareness.
The report also detailed a “haphazard documentation process” for pardons made by Biden, which the committee argued left room for doubt over whether the former president made those decisions himself.
The report said, “Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides — at the direction of the inner circle — hid the truth about the former president’s condition and fitness for office.”
“In the absence of sufficient contemporaneous documentation indicating that cognitively deteriorating President Biden himself made a given executive decision, such decisions do not carry the force of law and should be considered void,” the GOP report said. “The Department of Justice should immediately conduct a review of all executive actions taken by President Biden between January 20, 2021, and January 19, 2025. Given the patterns and findings detailed herein, this review should focus particularly on all acts of clemency. However, it should also include all other types of executive actions.”
Comer also raisied concerns about Hunter Biden’s role in the pardon process.
Ex-Biden chief of staff Jeff Zients previously told investigators that Hunter Biden was likely present for discussions related to the former president’s controversial preemptive pardons of his relatives.
“It was towards the end,” said a portion of Zients’ transcript included in the report. “What comes to mind is the family discussions. But I don’t know — that doesn’t mean that was it. It was the pardons towards the end, very end of the administration. And I think it was a few meetings, not many meetings.”
Comer’s report said, “Zients testified that President Biden included his son, Hunter Biden, in the decision-making process for and meetings about pardons.”
“This apparently included the meeting to discuss the pardons of five Biden family members, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and the members of Congress who served on the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, and their staff,” the report said.
🚨@GOPoversight has exposed the Biden Autopen Presidency, revealing how top aides misled Americans and worked to maintain the illusion of presidential control as Biden’s capacity declined.
Executive actions taken by White House Biden staff & signed by autopen are NULL AND VOID. https://t.co/QckrLlarSp
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) October 28, 2025
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