House Republicans to zero in on autopen use as part of investigation into Biden’s health
While Republicans in the House of Representatives are preparing to investigate the health of former President Joe Biden and mental fitness while they are in office, they are increasingly fleeing to use the so -called autopsy to sign some legislation and executive orders.
The autopsy was used in the White House to generate signatures for decades, with Barack Obama being the first president to use To sign the legislation. But Republicans in Congress – who greatly take their signals from President Donald Trump – see that the use of the automated pilot as a major line of attack as they reopen the investigation of the Piden mental intensity and his ability to do his work as a president.
“We are focusing on the automated pilot,” James Kumler, head of the bodies Control Committee, told NBC News. “Who was making decisions? Who was his signature? Was that?”
There is no official record of the number of times that Biden used an air operation for the official government’s work. Conservative Heritage Foundation I released a study The Department of Corporate anatomy has accused widely accused the timing when Biden fell the documents compared to the time of travel.
Office of the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Justice I issued a note On the topic in 2005, this practice was legal. Federal calls The court recently ruled In 2024 that “the lack of writing is not equal to proof of the lack of reduction”, when it comes to the use of presidential dissection.
A former Biden White official retreated against Komer’s assurances and defended the former president’s use.
“That is, accusation that President Biden did not make wrong decisions. President Biden made decisions related to the amnesty and executive orders he issued, and the legislation he signed in the law,” said the former official, who was not allowed to speak on behalf of Biden, told NBC News. “It is a solid and legal practice to use an autopsy to sign after the decision -making. This written mechanism was sometimes used during its administration as it was in other departments dating back to several decades.”
Biden spokesman refused to comment.
Republicans’ decision in the House of Representatives to go ahead A new book on Biden’s cognitive retreat And sound version Interviewing the previous written president With former Special Adviser Robert Hor as part of his interrogation of his dealings with classified documents.
The increasing audit also comes in a sensitive moment, as Biden revealed during the weekend that he was Diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer This has spread to his bones. However, the Republicans are unwanted, and in some cases, it is more convinced that the White House Biden was not sincere about the mental and physical health of the former president.
The House of Representatives Supervision Committee, which will lead the investigation effort, is preparing to deliver a new round of summons to a number of former Biden White officials. Kumer, who helped lead the efforts of the unclean House of Representatives to dismiss Biden last conference on his family’s commercial deals, accused officials of protecting the president at the time of the public’s eye.
Kumler said that the committee will communicate with people in Madar Biden and around him as part of its achievement as soon as this week. But it remains to see whether there will be any general sessions.
He told NBC News: “I have always said that you are getting more information in supervision of deposits and interviews more than you do public listening sessions. It is a difficult group of management in public listening sessions.” “No sessions do not produce much.”
During the last conference, the next committee summoned three main assistants at the White House to testify about mental fitness in Biden: Annie Thomasini, Anthony Bernal and Ashley Williams. They also requested a written interview with the then White House doctor, Dr. Kevin Okon. The four Biden administration was prevented from cooperating with the committee. But the committee is expected to approach the same group again.
Trump attacked Biden’s use of Antotopin, the last of which was on Tuesday During a trip to the Capitol.
“Who was running an autopsy? This is very dangerous,” Trump told reporters before a meeting with Republicans in the House of Representatives. “We had a president who did not sign anything. He participated in almost anything.”
Trump then escalated later his attacks on social media, and Biden’s advisers described them as “betrayal thugs” and accused them, without evidence of the use of autopsy to control the presidency.
Trump claimed that if Biden used the automated pilot To signing a pursuit pardon Among the members of the Congress, the employees and employees of the Ministry of Justice who investigated the events surrounding the attack on January 6, 2021, they may be invalid.
While Republicans in the House of Representatives and Trump are in line with their desire to investigate Biden’s fitness for service, there is some frustration that brewed between Congress committees about how quickly the Trump administration responds to some of their requests, according to the sources of Congress, the most familiar Republican Party.
The House of Representatives and Judicial Committees have always pushed to issue a Hur voice. But the tapes were not released through the official congressional channels, although the sound was It was reported by axios Last Friday, he is now available to the public. Several media, including NBC News, got the sound after prosecuting it.
The Ministry of Justice did not respond to the request to comment on issuing tapes to Congress.
“We have paid a Hur TAPE case in all the last Congress, along the way to contempt,” said Jim Jordan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Jim Jordan, R-OHIO. But when NBC News was asked on Tuesday about whether his committee had received the sound, Jordan said: “Not the actual physical tapes. But they are there.”
