Washington Examiner Justice Department reporter Kaelan Deese predicted that the House Oversight Committee will unveil that former President Joe Biden “wasn’t privy to any of the clemency acts” completed during his administration.
“I think that we are getting to a clearer picture from the Oversight Committee that they’re going to be able to show that there were multiple occasions whenever senior aides contradicted themselves when they said that they believed Biden was fit to serve another four years, when, behind the scenes, they were scrambling and creating combinations for the fact that Biden was not looking good in public,” Deese said Monday on The First on TV’s No Spin News.
The latest to testify to the committee was former White House chief of staff Jeff Zients. During a closed-door interview, Zients said Biden’s “decision-making slowed” during the final phase of his presidency. According to Deese, the committee’s final report will likely reveal more of Biden’s mental acuity while serving in office.
“It’s going to show exactly that Biden didn’t know everything that he was doing and be able to present a case that maybe he wasn’t privy to any of the clemency acts that he was doing,” Deese said. “We know that he wasn’t signing off on individual clemency acts.”
Biden set a record in presidential pardons, commutations, and clemencies affecting over 4,200 people.
BIDEN’S CHIEF OF STAFF GAVE MOST DAMNING TESTIMONY YET IN AUTOPEN PROBE
After leaving office, Biden confirmed that he authorized the autopen. He claimed that he used the autopen, a machine that allows anyone to duplicate the signature of the commander in chief onto a document, due to the large number of clemencies he granted.
However, Biden referred to the House Oversight Committee investigation into his autopen use as “crazy” and claimed that all Republican lawmakers who were questioning his cognitive decline were “liars.”