House GOP to interview, subpoena staffers who controlled autopen in Biden White House

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has said that the House GOP has identified the staffers who had the main control over the autopen during the last several months of former President Joe Biden's tenure as president, and that those involved with its use will face interviews and depositions if necessary.

Appearing on Fox News with Jason Chaffetz, the two were addressing the audio release of Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur, which showed that Biden had a hard time carrying on the conversation as well as with his memory recall.

"That's hard evidence. Early in President Biden's term as president, it clearly shows that he was in significant mental decline. It questions who was actually making the decisions. So what we found is not just with the pardons he issued, but many of the executive orders that the courts are now using to Trump-proof many of the executive orders that President Trump is trying to implement to make government more efficient, many of these executive orders, as well as the pardons of Biden's entire family — as a result of our investigation — these were all signed with the autopen."

The autopen is a device often used in congressional and other government offices by staffers, which allows them to sign the lawmaker's name for letters, legislation, and other documents. However, permission is needed to do so.

"Clearly from that interview, which was many, many months prior to the heavy use of the autopen, Joe Biden wasn't capable of making decisions. He wasn't coherent. We think we've identified who the staffers are" that were using the autopen, Comer added. "We want to find out who was actually making the decisions in the White House during the last nine months of the Biden administration, when he was clearly in mental decline."

The Republican lawmaker also added that the House GOP will bring in those staffers for congressional interviews and subpoena them if necessary to "have a full-blown deposition" with the staffers who were signing the documents with the autopen.

Although the autopen is used regularly by staffers in various government offices, there has been controversy that has arisen because of Biden's decline in mental capacities as he was getting later in his term, and whether or not he was in charge of what was signed. The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project has brought into question the applicability of the pardons he signed, as well as other documents, if they were signed by the autopen.

Last week, Comer also announced that Congress will hold hearings on the "cover-up" of Biden's decline as well as the use of the autopen.

In a press release from the Oversight Committee, Comer said, “The American people deserve to know who was actually calling the shots in the Biden White House, because it wasn’t Joe Biden. His mental decline was obvious to anyone paying attention. But instead of being honest, the Biden Administration, Democrats in Congress, and the legacy media lied and covered it up. They gaslit the American people while propping up a man who was unfit to lead.”