Biden's 'autopen signature' appears on most official docs, raising concerns over who controlled the WH: report
President Joe Biden salutes while arriving for an event at the White House on Nov. 27, 2023. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Biden's signature on the letter stating he was exiting the 2024 race differed from the other two that had been posted by the Oversight Project, with a signature that was not as legible as the one on the executive orders.
Fox News Digital, randomly, checked over 20 Biden-era executive orders recorded on the Federal Register's office from 2021 to 2024 and discovered each shared the same signature.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the White House on Feb. 14, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Biden and his administration, however, came under fierce concern and scrutiny over his mental acuity last year.
The year 2024 began with Biden at the helm of the Democratic Party as he revved up a re-election campaign in what was to be a repeat battle with Trump. In February of that year, however, Biden's 81 years of age and cognitive ability came under public scrutiny after years of conservatives challenging the commander in chief's mental competence.
Special counsel Robert Hur, who had been probing Biden's supposed mishandling of classified documents when he was vice president, declined to recommend a criminal charge for Biden for possessing classified materials post-vice presidency, describing Biden as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
The report revived renewed scrutiny of Biden's mental fitness, which increased to a boiling point in June 2024 following the president's first and sole presidential debate with Trump.
Biden was criticized for a few gaffes and missteps in the days preceding his disastrous debate with Trump, such as when former President Barack Obama took Biden's wrist and seemed to push him off a stage at a swanky fundraiser, and again overseas when Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni escorted Biden back to a delegation of world leaders when he seemed to stray away to give a thumbs-up to a parachutist during the G-7 summit. When debate day finally came around, Biden kept missing his targets time and again, stumbling over his answers and seeming to lose his train of thought as he faced off against Trump. The abysmal debate performance generated an outcry from conservatives and mainstream Democrat supporters alike demanding that the president step aside in favor of a new generation.
Biden withdrew from the race in July, and the signature on that official document was clearly different from the signature on his EOs.
Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey wrote a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday of last week calling for an investigation to be launched into whether Biden's "cognitive decline permitted unelected staff to advance radical policy without his knowing assent."
"There are deep-seated reasons to believe Biden's aides and political friends took advantage of his cognitive decline to make supposed presidential directives without his aware consent," the letter stated.
"Speaker Johnson, for instance, testified that staff and lawmakers – including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer – attempted to keep Johnson from meeting with Biden," it went on.
"While presidents necessarily have gatekeepers, in the case of Biden, his walls were higher and the controls stronger, Democratic lawmakers, donors, and former Biden and other administrations' aides tell us."
"Staff cut Biden off from speaking to other people and constrained the sources he got information from."
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks with reporters at the Capitol on Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The Oversight Project posted Bailey's letter in its thread of inquiry into Biden's signature on official documents, along with an interview with Speaker Johnson, R-La., when he recalled that Biden didn't recall signing an order halting new liquid natural gas exports in 2024.
"I didn't do that," the president said, Johnson recalled in an interview with the Free Press' Bari Weiss in January.
"Sir, you suspended it, I know. I have the export terminals in my state. I spoke to those people in my state, I've spoken to those people this morning, this is causing huge damage to our economy, national security," Johnson said he told the president at the time.
"I left that meeting with fear and contempt because I was thinking, 'We are in deep trouble – who is governing the country?'" Johnson explained about the 2024 session.
"Like, I don't even know who held the paper in front of him, but he didn't have a clue," he continued.
The Oversight Project persisted in its conclusions that investigators should ascertain "who was in charge of the autopen" throughout the Biden regime.
President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House on Sept. 4, 2023. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)