US must investigate Biden’s autopen decisions

To the Editor:

Throughout President Biden’s four-year term, many people noticed his serious cognitive decline. The real question is whether he actually made all of the executive decisions that were attributed to him.

Of course, Biden’s staff denied Biden’s mental acuity problem. Their strategy was to hide the truth coupled with concerted steps to prevent the public from observing reality. It seems to me as Biden was losing control of himself throughout his time in office, his executive actions, especially pardons, cannot all be deemed his own.

Our Constitution is clear. “The president shall…have the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States.” Research is clear, and history confirms that the location of the pardon power in the Constitution is significant. The president must make the decisions, and the courts can hold pardons void if the decisions were made by others.

So, who really made the decisions to have the autopen sign 4,245 acts of clemency? Of those, 96% were granted (and signed by autopen) between Oct. 1, 2024, and his departure from the White House on Jan. 20, 2025.

No facts are coming from the former staff, and the so-called mainstream media has failed or refused to address this issue at all. I see that the House Oversight Committee has conducted a brief inquiry, but our Department of Justice’s lawyers need to investigate. Even if Democratic staffers continue to deny that Biden had cognitive issues, there is still the question of who was operating the autopen, and with whose authority, and why all these clemency actions were signed without proper documentation.

Personally, I believe the question of who was actually running our country for four years is worth investigating. It appears to me that Trump derangement syndrome is still rampant in the liberal media such as ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, AP, NYT, and NPR, to name a few. Where did our impartial, fact-based media go?

Dave Molek

Reedsville