WEBVTT - Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:05.000 Cool media. 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:10.200 This is it could happen here, the show about things 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:11.000 falling apart. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:12.960 One thing falling apart last year. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:17.240 I guess the president's mental health seemingly so, and we're 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.360 going to talk about that today and some possible ramifications 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.319 that the current president may be trying to exploit to 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.720 help him out. Robert Evans, Hello, how are you? 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.720 I'm fine? Is something wrong with the president? 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:32.760 The current one or the old one? 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.720 Any president ever? Has a president ever done wrong? 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.800 I heard some nasty things about mister Clinton. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.199 Interesting. I woke up today for the first time, so 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:43.040 this is all new to me. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:43.360 Yeah. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.040 Just don't look on like the news or the internet 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:48.440 or anything, and it should be. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:52.640 Okay, that's good. I'm just going to start reading Wikipedia 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.920 at the A section and see if I get to 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:56.200 anything bad about a president. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.960 So since taking office, Trump is actually sort of been 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.720 going soft on old sleepy Joe, not out of the 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.200 goodness of his own heart, right, but to possibly explore 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.520 legal options to get around some of the roadblocks Trump's 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.640 been facing in the judicial branch. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:16.720 Yeah, that makes sense. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.280 Trump's been arguing that Biden himself was mostly absent, especially 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.400 during the later half of his presidency, and a sort 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:29.080 of like secret cabal of cabinet members, DNC consultants, white 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.320 House staff, and aids were running a shadow presidency. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.240 Yeah, and one of my constant takes is there are 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.679 no secret cabals. There's a lot of cabals. They're all 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.240 very obvious, very public, very public cabals. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:48.120 But this secret cabal of like DNC interns, we're using 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:53.440 Biden's signature via auto pen to set policy, make judicial appointments, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:58.280 and sign orders, all with little to zero awareness from 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.800 poor old six b Joe. In fact, people around Biden 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.520 intentionally covered up his declining health to continue using his 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.080 presidential power for their own progressive agenda. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.560 If only they'd used it for that, and not just 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:13.639 to keep getting. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.079 Paychecks or sending bombs to Israel, or sending bombs to 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.280 Israel many of the other, many of the other things 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.160 that Biden seem to preoccupied with. I would have play 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.880 a clip from a month and a half ago Donald Trump, 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:32.840 current president, explaining this conspiracy of the secret Joe Biden cabal. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.480 I'm sure that he didn't know many of the things. Look, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.400 he was never for open borders, he was never for 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.120 transgender for everybody, he was never for men playing in 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.600 women's sports. I mean he changed, I mean all of 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.480 these things that changed so radically. I don't think he 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.120 had any idea that what was Frankly, I said it 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.919 during the debate and I say it now. He didn't 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:55.760 have much of an idea what was going on. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:57.680 He shouldn't be. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.360 I mean, essentially, whoever used the auto was the president, and. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.840 That is wrong. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.680 It's illegal, it's so bad, and it's so disrespectful to 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:08.400 our country. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.839 Transgender for everybody. The defining legacy of the Biden era, 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.280 sure is his core policy platform. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.000 Yeah, okay, I don't know, Like, what do you even 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.320 say at this point? Right, Like, honestly, he's sending troops 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.079 into the second major city, this one the capital, and 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.320 taking over control of the police force. How much is 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.480 it worth just being like oh and he said another 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.920 thing that's not true, Like I know it's important to 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.160 cover all this, but also like, man, I'm tired. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.640 Oh yeah, no, it's it's it's incredibly frustrating because they 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.840 get to deploy these these absurd little lines every once 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.000 in a while and it captures media attention, and the 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.080 physical things that they're doing do not get as much, 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:52.800 like awareness. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.440 And there's this constant I think misinterpretation as to like 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.680 this is alid distraction from this and this and this, 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.480 and it does sometimes function that way, but this isn't. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.360 They're not doing this because it's a distraction. They're doing 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.200 this because they also hate this group of people. When 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.680 I hurt this group of people, there's a lot of 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.000 people they want to hurt, and they want to do 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:08.800 it in different ways. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.480 And they're kind of playing a longer game with the 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:17.240 focus on this quote unquote autopen and it remains to 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.800 be seen if it's going to be successful or you know, 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.440 pay off for them. But I do want to talk 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.240 about it now since this is on like you know, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.120 a month, like four of them slowly seeding this into 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.960 popular discourse. It's like a new thing because every once 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.120 in a while they have to decide what the new 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.160 thing is. Right a few years ago, they decided it 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.239 was trans people. They decided it was DEI, they decided 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.760 it was how the twenty twenty lecture was stolen. They 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:44.080 just decide that there's like some major problem, and then 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.920 they repeat it often enough that it becomes like something 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.800 that seemingly a share of voters actually care about. And 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.640 they're trying to make autopen be a thing. And there 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.480 is actual, like possible results of them focusing on this 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.760 as we as we will see. But the autopen fixation 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.520 started this past March when Trump posted a truth on 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.320 truth Social claiming that Biden's preemptive partons of members of 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:11.240 the January sixth Investigation House Committee are quote hereby declared void, vacant, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.839 and of no further force of effect because of the 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.320 fact that they were done by autopen unquote. Great, this 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.200 is not real. This is not this is not like 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.120 a real thing that he can disclaim on on truth Social. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.159 But what's real? 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.799 You know, there is no requirement that pardons even be signed, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.480 only that they're accepted by a subject. In nineteen twenty nine, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.120 the Uslister General concluded in a memo that quotes, neither 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.799 the Constitution nor any statute prescribes the method by which 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.400 executive clemency shall be exercised or evidenced. So he can't 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.800 just do this here. But this was kind of the 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.360 opening of the door for the rest of what we're 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.559 going to talk about this episode. And I guess before 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.520 we get into that, I should talk about what an 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.159 autopen is not a bad one. Is a tool to 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.159 automate the signing of documents by replicating a signature. And 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.040 this is a machine or a type of machine that's 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.159 long been used in the White House, like Thomas Jefferson 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.279 bought and used an early iteration of such a device 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.400 shortly after was patented. In eighteen oh three, Lennon B. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.919 Johnson's auto pen was photographed in the White House for 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.159 a National Inquiry or recover story titled the Robot that 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.080 Sits in for the President. And it's funny that now 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.000 you get Fox News headlines that are basically written very 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.400 similarly talking about how actually a robot for the autopen 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.880 itself was acting as president. And that's like a controversy, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.159 okay Versus it was just like a fun news story 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.160 back in the fifties. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.320 How many of the guys angry about this literally want 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.720 an LLM to be the president? Yes, exactly, that's that's 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:44.360 my question. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.919 No, at least at least half, at least half the 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.680 other half don't know what an ll is. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:51.800 No. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.440 Now, Obama was the first president to openly sign legislation 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.960 with an autopen, including the extension of the Patriot Act 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.359 in twenty eleven while at the G eight summit in France, 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.120 and though the constitutionality of the autopen has never been 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.560 tested or explicitly determined in court, in two thousand and five, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.720 President George W. Bush asked the Justice Department for its 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.480 opinion on the validity of the autopen for signing legislation 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.960 and other official policy documents. The Office of Legal Council 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.520 found that, quote, the President need not personally perform the 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.840 physical act of fixing his signature to a bill he 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.440 approves and decides to sign in order for the bill 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.240 to become law. Rather, the President may sign a bill 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.080 by directing a subordinate to affix the president's signature to 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.480 such a bill, for example, by autopen unquote, though there 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.520 still is debate whether the President needs to be physically 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:43.080 present during this process or simply authorized the signing. And 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:44.840 you know, you have people like Steven Miller in this 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.200 administration who try to find niche little laws or statutes 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.640 to then apply in a way that it was probably 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.480 never designed or we have since these laws inceptions have 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.240 decided not to use the laws in that way because 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.640 that doesn't make sense of our current context. But someone 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.240 like Miller, very willing to do such a thing, and 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:06.320 there could be, for instance, some obscure aspect or interpretation 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.880 of like proxy signature laws that they could try to 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.560 like force through into their interpretation of like Article one, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.360 section seven of the Constitution, which might make some auto 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.760 pen signatures invalid. But this is something that's like kind 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.560 of dismissed in a lot of legal circles because as 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.320 like a practical matter, it would be disastrous to start 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.800 rescinding executive actions based on this interpretation because like decades 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.880 and decades of laws and regulations would then fall into 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.440 question and possibly become void. So lots of people just 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.920 like kind of don't think this is like a real 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.439 question or a real concern, and part of me thinks 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.880 that as well. But as like someone like Miller is demonstrated, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:50.520 they're absolutely willing to use like niche arguments or precedents 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.040 to do some pretty like crazy stuff. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.679 Do you know what is not very crazy? 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.280 Robert paying money to the sponsors of this show. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:08:59.959 It's an extremely reasonable act. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.320 It's the only sane thing you can do. If you 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.800 do anything else, you are being fifty one to fifty, 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.400 then you'll be on an involuntary seventy two hour. Hold, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:18.000 that's the way the law works. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:20.720 All right, we are back. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:26.079 So with this Biden autopen thing, it's not really about 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.040 the autopen. The autopen actually is not the problem here 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.760 kind of at all. That's not what they're really focusing on. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.559 In early June, the Justice Department launched an investigation into 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.160 Biden's alleged use of the autopen, with the DOJ pardon 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.959 attorney Ed Martin writing in an email that this investigation 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.120 is to determine whether Joe Biden was quote competent and 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.520 whether others were taking advantage of him through use of 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:53.319 the autopen or other means unquote, with a specific focus 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.680 on the primpt of pardons for members of Biden's family 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.120 and clemency for thirty seven death row inmates whose sentences 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.199 were converted to life prison. So this is the real crux, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.800 whether Biden was competent and whether people were using the 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.760 autopen without his knowledge. And I think the reason why 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.680 they're starting by focusing on these pardons, whether for January 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.000 sixth investigation committee members or for those close to Biden, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.600 like this all relates to Trump's campaign promise of like retribution, right, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.120 you can think of cash Betel's list of deep state 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.600 actors that he wants to investigate like that was such 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.680 a core part of what Trump campaigned on, and he 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:34.960 does still seem keen on fulfilling parts of that promise. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:43.320 Now Ed Martin, the DOJ pardon attorney investigating this autopen debacle, himself, 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.760 has said that the president's pardon power is absolute and 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.679 that using the autopen is quote not necessarily a problem. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.080 But I think that the core part here is that 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.720 it's not about the autopen itself. It's about this secret 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.400 cabal who are using the autopen without Biden's knowledge. So 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.400 a few days after this investigation was announced, White House 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:05.160 released a public memo from Trump entitled reviewing Certain Presidential Actions, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.960 which ordered the Attorney General and the White House Council 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.439 to investigate quote whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.480 public about Biden's mental state and unconstitutionally exercise to the 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:21.800 authorities and responsibilities of the president. And this document reads 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.480 like something I would read on like a conspiracy theory 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.840 website five years ago. It's written in a very similar style. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:29.680 Quote. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.320 President Biden's aides abused the power of presidential signatures through 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.400 the use of an auto pen to conceal Biden's cognitive 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.200 decline and assert article to authority. This conspiracy marks one 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.200 of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.480 The American public was purposely shielded from discovering who wielded 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.840 the executive power, all while Biden's signature was deployed across 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:55.440 thousands of documents to affect radical policy shifts. Unquote. The 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.720 memo states that Biden's advisors quot unquote tried to hide 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.880 the true extent of his mental decline to quote cover 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:07.440 up his inability to discharge his duties. The investigation specifically 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.839 wants to look into which policy documents were signed via 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.280 auto pen and who ordered the President's signature to be 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.080 a fixed to said documents. One other quote from the 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.600 memo quote the White House issued over twelve hundred presidential documents, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.720 appointed two hundred and thirty five judges to the federal bench, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.800 and issued more pardons and commutations than any administration in 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.440 United States history. Although the authority to take these executive actions, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.680 along with many others, is constitutionally committed to the president, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.600 there are serious doubts as to the decision making process 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.559 and even the degree of Biden's awareness of these actions 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.840 being taken in his name, given clear indications that President 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.320 Biden lacked the capacity to exercise its presidential authority, if 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.880 his advisors secretly used the mechanical signature pen to conceal 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:59.360 this incapacity while taking radical executive actions all in his name, 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.760 that would constitute and unconstitutional wielding of the power of 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.360 the presidency, a circumstance that would have implications for the 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.120 legality and validity of numerous executive actions undertaken in Biden's 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:15.480 name unquote. So though the two thousand and five Bush 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.280 DOJ memo does support the use of the autopen to 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.560 a fix the president's signature, obviously it still must be 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.800 the president who decides to sign a document, with the 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.160 Office of Legal Counsel, memo state in quote, we do 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.320 not question the substantial authority supporting the view that the 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.200 president must personally decide whether to approve and sign bills. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.760 This is pretty obvious, and that's why so much of 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.240 the autopen investigations are around Biden's deteriorating mental state and 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.679 not the autopen itself. It's about trying to prove whether 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.480 Biden was either not mentally capable of sufficiently authorizing a 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.240 signature to be affixed to certain documents, or was just 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.640 completely unaware that the autopen was signing certain documents with 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.800 White House advisors specifically covering up Biden's mental decline to 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.680 take advantage of his compromise date to personally direct policy. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.280 And that's what the investigations are going to try to prove. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.560 The White House is already making repeated assertions that this 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.559 was the case, and this question may be finally settled 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:17.800 in a Trump sympathetic court, and Republicans are currently trying 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.880 every angle of attack on this. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.640 has started a Senate investigation and a House Oversight Committee 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.880 investigation is already up and running. The past month, Kentucky 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.200 Republican James Comer has been subpoena ing Biden admin officials 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.640 to testify on the use of the auto pen and 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:41.960 Biden's mental faculties while in office. Comer's own letters and 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:46.600 subpoenas for this investigation have been signed with a digital signature, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.920 because this is such a common practice in Washington and 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.320 like all over the country. Now, try to think of 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.960 all the official documents you sign on your computer, right yeah. Now, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.800 metadata from a subpoena cover letter sent to former Senior 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.120 adviser to the First Lady, Anthony Bernal showed the document 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.600 was authored and signed by someone named Benzene, an Oversight 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.840 Committee staffer, not James Comer, because again, this is pretty regular, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.880 so even the investigators are doing this process themselves while 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.320 doing the investigation. Part of the reason why the Republicans 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.000 are trying to make this a continuing story and not 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.400 just about, you know, the pardons, is because as like 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:29.160 Biden appointee judges began blocking Trump's executive orders, the focus 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.360 on the auto pen turned from just pardons towards use 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.440 of the autopen to nominate federal judges. And this is 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:41.680 where things get a lot more slippery. Last month, Fox 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.080 News asked House Overside Committee Chairman James Comer if not 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.880 just pardons may be found to be null and void 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.920 because of the results of this investigation, but possibly also 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:54.600 judicial appointments. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.880 Biden made two hundred and twenty eight judicial appointments, including 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.880 forty five Appeals court and one hundred and eighty seven 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.520 District court judges, and most importantly, Biden appointed Justice Kachanji 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.360 Brown Jackson. The Court's most long winded justice who couldn't 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.240 even define what a woman is. Mister Chairman, you mentioned 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.160 that you're looking at some of the pardons that were 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.040 done under President Biden and the use of the autopen 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.280 doctor Fauci being one of them, talking about whether they 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.040 were legitimate or not. Are you also looking into Biden's 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:25.480 judicial appointments as. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:31.280 Well, Absolutely everything that was signed with the autopan, especially 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.440 in the last year of the Biden presidency. This is 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.800 when all the books that are being written, all the 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:42.040 tell all interviews that are being recorded from his former 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.720 disgruntled staffers and staffords who are trying to preserve the 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:50.200 reputation for future employment. They're all saying that Joe Biden 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.840 was in a deep mental decline and that he was 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.200 protected by a very small inner circle. We brought a 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.160 few of those people on the inner circle and ask 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.320 them simple questions like were you ever told to lie 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.080 about the President's health? And they couldn't answer that question 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.720 that had to plead the fifth to avoid self incrimination. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.600 This raises an issue whether these pardons, whether these judicial appointments, 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.520 and whether these executive orders are legal. I believe that 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.280 if this investigation keeps going in the way that it's going. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.800 That's going to a very serious concerns about whether or 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.440 not Joe Biden even you what was going on around him, 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.879 much less whether he authorized the use of his signature 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:31.760 on all of this stuff. I think all of these 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.879 are in jeopardy of being declared null and void in 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.800 a court of law. And that's a big deal for 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.639 the Trump administration because so much of what Trump is 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:44.160 up against in court now with these liberal biased Biden 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:48.000 appointed judges is the fact that they're using and citing 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:52.920 some of these executive orders as reason to throw out 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.120 President Trump's agenda and President Trump's executive orders. So they 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:01.360 tried to Trump proof the administration on the way out 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.280 the door. And the problem they got now is the 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.960 American people realize that Joe Biden wasn't the one calling 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.160 the shots, and he may very well have not even 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.040 been mentally fit to make decisions to authorize the use 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.320 of his autopinion, if he even authorized it. So this 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.200 is going to play out in a court of law. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.000 I think our investigation is going to be a substantial 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.520 part of evidence in it, and that's why we're doing 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:24.240 the investigation. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.119 Yeah, that's that's the rub right there. That's exactly what 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.080 they want, right is to completely peel back the last 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.080 administration or two of judges and make it just be 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.120 all their people, a whole justice system that they completely control. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:44.080 If they could recall like two hundred and thirty federal judges, yeah, 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.000 and fill in two hundred and thirty more like Trump 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:52.159 appointed judges, that would clear out so much of the 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.400 legal roadblocks that they're currently fac there. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:54.720 Yep. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.399 And that is the real crux of their focus on 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.320 this issue. That's why they're trying to like insert this 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.760 into real and they're throwing this autopen story like everywhere. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:08.480 Even the Epstein files, which don't exist, were concocted by 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.399 the ever suspicious Autopen. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.800 It's a hoax that's been built up way beyond proportion. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.639 I can say this, Those files were run by the 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:22.240 worst come on earth. They were run by Komi, they 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.959 were run by Garland, they were run by Biden and 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.560 all of the people that actually ran the government, including 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:30.600 the Autopen. 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.920 Whatever the current big news story is, they're going to 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.200 try to shove the Autopen in there because that's how 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:47.560 they operate, that's how they craft reality. 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.000 Okay, we are back. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.960 So, needless to say, Biden and his advisors have denied 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.400 all of this. And it's a little tricky because part 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:04.159 of what this story slightly compelling for Trump's team is 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.320 that obviously Biden's mental health was in decline for the 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:08.560 past few years of his presidency. 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:09.960 We all saw that happen. 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.040 That is like a accepted part of our country's history. Now, 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.240 we all saw the debate, and so much of their 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.240 argument for this is resting on how much everyone understands 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:22.840 that you have a whole bunch of former White House 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.320 staff writing books on this topic now. So with that 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.800 aspect in mind, they still have to defend the use 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.080 of the autopen and Biden's competency and awareness of all 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.720 of the decisions being made to do this. Last month, 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.840 had his first interview with The New York Times since 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.720 like twenty twenty one, where he discussed how he gave 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.680 oral authorization for all of the pardons with the autopen 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.960 operation specifically being managed by the Staff Secretary Stephene Feldman. 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.399 He said, quote, I made every decision. Biden said that 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.080 the White House used the autopen specifically for the last 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.440 batch of pardons. Biden said that they used the autopen 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.760 because of the high number of pardon warrants issued totaling 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.960 around four thousand, which affected three categories of federal convicts, 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.919 people serving home confinement, non violent drug offenders, and people 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.600 on death row. He did not choose or prove like 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.040 every single name on that list, but claims to have 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.120 determined the criteria and categories, saying. 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:23.359 Quote, I was deeply involved. 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.520 I laid out a strategy how I want to go 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.600 about these dealing with pardons and commutations. I pulled the 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.560 team in to say this is how I want to 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:36.879 get it done generically and then specifically unquote. In preparation 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.200 for the final months of the Biden presidency, his White 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.240 House counsel wrote an email to staff in November of 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.120 twenty twenty four, laying with the process for reviewing pardons, 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.200 the last step being quote the President makes the final 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:52.160 decision on the final pardon and or the commutation slate unquote. 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.159 At this point, around a dozen people have been subpoenaed 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.720 and are giving testimony, and the investigation is looking through 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:02.160 emails from the time, specifically starting with these pardons, because 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.080 I think that's the only way they have to like 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.760