NEERA TANDEN: THE PRESIDENT YOU NEVER ELECTED?
There are now credible doubts that a cognitively impaired President, Joe Biden, may not have been aware of official state documents to be executed in his name or authorized the use of his signature on official state documents, thus raising questions of their legitimacy.
Former White House official Neera Tanden, a long‑time Democratic political operative closely associated with Barack Obama, admitted under oath in testimony before the House Oversight Committee that she directed the use of President Joe Biden’s autopen signature, a mechanical device capable of reproducing his signature, on dozens of official documents, including executive orders, clemency warrants, and federal legislation.
"As Staff Secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president. "I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents."
Though Tanden maintained that the process was normal, customary, and routine, inherited from prior administrations, and a matter of bureaucratic efficiency, when the President shows obvious signs of dementia and memory loss, it is a matter of national security.
According to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, Tanden also admitted that she had minimal contact with President Biden and outlined the procedure for authorizing signatures.
“Just yesterday, we heard from our first witness, Neera Tanden, the former Staff Secretary who controlled the Biden autopen. Ms. Tanden testified that she had minimal interaction with President Biden, despite wielding tremendous authority. She explained that to obtain approval for autopen signatures, she would send decision memos to members of the President’s inner circle and had no visibility of what occurred between sending the memo and receiving it back with approval. Her testimony raises serious questions about who was really calling the shots in the Biden White House amid the President’s obvious decline. We will continue to pursue the truth for the American people.”
The Investigation
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT In recent months, it has become increasingly apparent that former President Biden’s aides abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority. This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history. The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts. For years, President Biden suffered from serious cognitive decline. The Department of Justice, for example, concluded that, despite clear evidence that Biden had broken the law, he should not stand trial owing to his incompetent mental state. Biden’s cognitive issues and apparent mental decline during his Presidency were even “worse” in private, and those closest to him “tried to hide it” from the public. To do so, Biden’s advisors during his years in office severely restricted his news conferences and media appearances, and they scripted his conversations with lawmakers, government officials, and donors, all to cover up his inability to discharge his duties. Notwithstanding these well-documented issues, the White House issued over 1,200 Presidential documents, appointed 235 judges to the Federal bench, and issued more pardons and commutations than any administration in United States history. For instance, just 2 days before Christmas in 2024, the White House announced that Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 most vile and monstrous criminals on Federal death row, including several child killers and mass murderers. Although the authority to take these executive actions, along with many others, is constitutionally committed to the President, there are serious doubts as to the decision making process and even the degree of Biden’s awareness of these actions being taken in his name. The vast majority of Biden’s executive actions were signed using a mechanical signature pen, often called an autopen, as opposed to Biden’s own hand. This was especially true of actions taken during the second half of his Presidency, when his cognitive decline had apparently become even more clear to those working most closely with him. Given clear indications that President Biden lacked the capacity to exercise his Presidential authority, if his advisors secretly used the mechanical signature pen to conceal this incapacity, while taking radical executive actions all in his name, that would constitute an unconstitutional wielding of the power of the Presidency, a circumstance that would have implications for the legality and validity of numerous executive actions undertaken in Biden’s name. <Source: The White House> |
Biden’s Denial
In response to an investigation ordered by former President Donald Trump regarding Biden’s use of an autopen for signing documents, including pardons, Biden said:
“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.” <Source>
However, Biden has not addressed the issue directly in a public forum, and no official logs or memos have been released to confirm that Biden authorized the use of an autopen signature on controversial or high-stakes executive actions.
A Signature Without a President?
For nearly two years, from October 2021 to May 2023, Tanden exercised authority to sign documents on behalf of President Biden using the autopen. All of this occurred under the cloak of secrecy with no public awareness and virtually no media scrutiny.
If a faceless White House staffer, appointed and never elected, had functional control over binding presidential acts, from clemency to national security, it represents a clear and present danger to our democracy, which demands transparency and the consent of the governed.
Bottom Line
Who was really pulling the levers of executive power? Can any of the documents signed with the autopen be challenged in Court? Who has standing to bring these issues before the Court?
How many other presidential acts, including those under the aegis of the commander-in-chief, were decided and executed without the public’s knowledge?
Neera Tanden, a faceless bureaucrat with unlimited and unchecked power, was never elected. Yet for nearly two years, she had the legal authority to affix the President’s name to documents that directly affected both the individual lives of Americans and the direction of foreign and domestic policies. All done in near total secrecy and without oversight.
But who, at the top of Biden’s bureaucrats and bullies, actually made the decisions? It is unlikely that it was functionary Neera Tanden.
Again, democracy was subverted from within by the progressive communist democrats, and the incurious media wants you to look at their latest bright, shiny object relating to President Donald Trump.
We are so screwed.
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