Sunday, March 16, 2025

President Autopen

In recent days, it has been discovered that many of President Biden's signatures are identical.  Previous presidents have used an autopen.  For example, President Obama used an autopen to sign a law extension before a deadline while he was in France.  Generally, the autopen is used to sign correspondence, photographs, or other non-official documents.  Where most presidents issue only 50 or so executive orders a year, the use of an autopen would be unexpected.  Surely, the president can sign a document a week, especially an executive order that he crafted or a pardon he authorized.  Well, it turns out that President Biden couldn't be bothered.  Or maybe he wasn't even consulted.  The combination of President Biden's mental decline and that the autopen provided his signature on both executive orders and pardons is troubling.

Joe Biden was not calling the shots during his presidency.  He was a front man, a figurehead.  Much as it was eventually revealed that Joe McCarthy was right about communist infiltration of the government and President Wilson was an invalid during the last 18 months of his presidency, it will someday be exposed who was the guiding the executive branch during the last 4 years.  Until then, we can refer to that person as President Autopen.

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