Biden actions were not all his own after health cover-up, bombshell House GOP report finds

WASHINGTON — Dozens of Joe Biden’s executive actions “cannot all be deemed his own” after his closest advisers “went to great lengths to prop up” the 46th president as he suffered physical and cognitive decline in office, according to a bombshell report released Tuesday.The House Oversight Committee staff document — based on more than a dozen interviews with Biden aides — lays out how the Democrat’s “inner circle” took steps to “meticulously stage-manage” his public appearances, lighten his private workload, and even block lawmakers from talking to him.“These steps ranged from addressing President Biden’s makeup, clothing, schedule, the number of steps President Biden could walk or climb, the amount of time President Biden needed to read and to spend with his family,” the 91-page report states, “keeping cabinet meetings to a minimum, eliciting ‘direction’ from Hollywood on the State of the Union and other events, and using teleprompters even at small, intimate events.”In fact, when Biden gave his son Hunter a sweeping pardon from tax and gun felonies — as well as any potential crimes committed over an 11-year period — the president was given a notecard full of approved talking points.The investigation, run by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), also found that executive orders signed by autopen — including some presidential pardons — should be considered null and void since they were authorized with no “approval traceable to the president’s own consent.”Biden himself told the New York Times in July that an autopen was used to sign 25 pardon and commutation warrants in December 2024 and January 2025, some of which granted clemency to thousands of offenders.Hunter Biden’s pardon was one of the few the president signed by hand during this period.Asked directly whether he even knew who operated the autopen, former White House chief of staff Jeff Zients — who approved 11th-hour pardons for first family member...