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The email was brief and to the point. โ€œGreg, can you do some research and write something up about this auto-sign issue with Biden.โ€ย I expected nothing less from the retired Marine colonel who began his nearly four decades of service in the Corps as a Parris Island recruit and whose autobiographyย โ€œWeโ€™ll All Die as Marinesโ€ย is a must read for all who earned the eagle, globe and anchor.ย 

With two decades of writing a weekly op/ed column, plenty of suggestions roll in on what โ€œI need to write.โ€ However, Col. Bathurst and I were on the same wavelength about the autopen and its effects.ย It is an issue that faded as quickly as it was noticed.ย 

In our polarized political environment, questions about abuse of executive power are dismissed or simply ignored when orchestrated by Democrats.

Rewind four years ago, when President Joe Biden first took office and infamously stated, โ€œwhat am I signing here?โ€ 

Joe was no John Hancock, instead he was the front man for Barack Obamaโ€™s third term. 

Afterward, Bidenโ€™s systematic use of the presidential autopen e-signature became the norm raising many troubling questions.

Did Biden know what he was signing and if not, who had control of the autopen and was it used without Bidenโ€™s approval?ย Provided Biden didnโ€™t physically sign these documents, are they legally binding?

A recent Heritage Oversight Project report found that nearly all the documents signed by Biden over his four year term used an autopen except the proclamation that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The report also questioned the signatureโ€™s legality, especially concerning executive orders.

Then there are Bidenโ€™s last-minute pardons of certain family members, Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the members of theย Jan. 6ย Committee.ย Heritageโ€™s report also revealed some of the autopen-signed documents โ€œpardoned six criminals while Biden was vacationing and golfing in the U.S. Virgin Islands.โ€ These documents were signed โ€œat the city of Washingtonโ€ as the autopen can reproduce the signature without the signatory present.ย Only the president of the United States canย sign a pardon.

Once again begging the question did Biden possess the cognitive ability to do so and is it legally binding when only a president can authorize and sign? 

Last year, Biden admitted to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he didnโ€™t recall signing an executive order halting exports of liquid natural gas which Johnson recounted in an interview with The Free Press, and said he โ€œwalked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, weโ€™re in serious trouble. Who is running the country?โ€ 

The Constitution does not allow for a presidential team of handlers.ย Rather, it authorizes one person, the elected president, to sign all bills into law.ย Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency. Someone suffering from dementia in the Oval Office was guaranteed to generate a constitutional crisis.ย 

The far left took advantage of Bidenโ€™s obvious cognitive decline.ย It was their opportunity of never allowing โ€œa crisis to go to waste.โ€ย How many times was the autopen used to authorize billions to Ukraine, or USAID and any other government agency?

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey desires a challenge to the legitimacy of anything the 82-year-old Biden signed given the concerns about the former presidentโ€™s cognition.ย โ€œI am demanding the DOJ investigate whether President Bidenโ€™s cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval,โ€ Bailey said.

If true, these executive orders and pardons are unconstitutional and legally void.

The issue with the Biden presidency is his signing multiple pardons, and a variety of documents he himself admitted not knowing he had signed while not being of sound mind.

In 2000, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act was signed into law, bestowing electronic signatures the same legal status as handwritten signatures.ย Just because they are accepted doesnโ€™t mean they canโ€™t be abused. The Biden administration took advantage of a president who was incapacitated serving as a more of a prop than president.

That a president of the United States was unfit for four years is the biggest scandal in American history. Where is the accountability and reckoning?

The Department of Justice must thoroughly investigate and report to the American people.

There is no other recourse.

Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca is a New York City native and U.S. Marine Corps veteran who writes for TTC. He resides in the Pennsylvania Coal Region. His work can also be found in The American Spectator, NewsBreak, Daily Item, Republican Herald, Standard Speaker, The Remnant Newspaper, Gettysburg Times, Daily Review, The News-Item, Standard Journal and more.

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