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Possible Crimes Committed by Biden Staffers Using Autopen Without Presidential Awareness Outlined

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As questions swirl about Joe Biden’s cognitive state and absentee leadership, new scrutiny is falling on the use of the presidential autopen by Biden’s staffers, an automated signature device that has been used to sign executive orders and potentially even pardons.

These staffers, if these reports are accurate, could have engaged in multiple ongoing felonies.

House Oversight Chair Jim Comer (R-KY) has said legislative subpoenas are being sent out, but what crimes could they be pursuing? And something many are asking online: will anyone ever be charged with any crimes?

Nearly all of Biden’s official signatures were done with the autopen. The Biden White House even issued criminal pardons with the autopen. There were two autopens that were in use.

The OversightPR project identified times that Biden’s pardons were issued while Joe Biden was known to be out of the White House on vacation and unable to run the automatic signature machine.

Project Veritas released a video today showing David Hogg admitting that it was Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff who was exerting a tremendous amount of unseen power in the Biden White House.

Trump has said whoever was using the autopen was “usurping the power of the Presidency.”

Who was running the American government under Sleepy Joe Biden?

If reports are accurate that White House staff may have used Biden’s autopen to execute official acts without his direct knowledge or consent, the legal implications are not just alarming, they’re criminal acts.

Biden issued wide-ranging pardons in his last weeks, including a controversial one for his controversial son Hunter, despite promising previously that he would not pardon Hunter. Reports now coming out that Hunter exercised a great deal of power in the Biden White House has some wondering whether Hunter simply issued his own pardon without Joe Biden knowing.

Here’s what relevant federal law says: if anyone in the Executive Office signed legal documents such as pardons, executive orders, diplomatic communications without the President’s full and current awareness, they would likely violate multiple federal statutes, including:

18 U.S.C. § 471 – Forgery of United States Documents
It is a crime to falsely make or use any writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States. Signing the President’s name via autopen on legal instruments without his direct authorization is a textbook example. Maximum penalty: 20 years in prison.

18 U.S.C. § 912 – Impersonation of a Federal Officer
Pretending to be the President—even indirectly by authorizing acts in his name, while exercising that power, unlawfully carries up to 3 years in prison.

18 U.S.C. § 1001 – False Statements
Any deception involving a material act of government, especially in formal documents, exposes the staffer(s) to 5–8 years in prison per count.

18 U.S.C. § 371 – Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
If multiple officials coordinated such actions, even internally, it may be prosecutable as conspiracy.

18 U.S.C. § 1503, 1512 – Obstruction of Justice
If any falsified pardons were used to derail or stop criminal proceedings, such as the Hunter Biden pardon that stopped his charges and likely sentencing, obstruction charges would apply.

18 U.S.C. § 1341, 1343 – Wire or Mail Fraud
The use of email, phone, or interagency transmissions to process these fraudulent signatures might trigger additional felony charges.

A key legal question is going to be who knew what, and when? Since Biden’s cognitive decline was obvious to anyone paying attention, and Justice Department Attorney Robert Hur even noted it in his write-up of Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, it is hard to claim that many were not aware that this was going on.

The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1967, was created to deal with the situation of an incapacitated President. Particularly Section 4 contains the constitutional process designed to address a situation where a sitting President is unable or unfit to discharge the duties of office, but is either unwilling or unable to voluntarily step aside. It allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the President incapacitated and install the VP as Acting President.

If Biden’s decline was ‘stage-managed’ in order to prevent the Cabinet secretaries from being able to observe his mental incapacity, then the staffers involved could be liable for participating in a criminal conspiracy.

Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki claims she never noticed Biden’s mental decline until his May 2024 debate with Trump.

But the Gateway Pundit reported in June 2021 that Biden was speaking gibberish and appeared totally lost. The Gateway Pundit reported in 2020 that it was obvious Biden had dementia. Biden falsely said he was arrested during the Civil Rights movement. Biden falsely claimed in 2021 that he desegregated restaurants during the Civil Rights movement.

On the 2020 campaign trail, Biden told insane, obviously-false, stories about himself.

Even as far back as 2017, Biden invented an incoherent story about growing up with a villain named “Corn Pop” at a local swimming pool. The Washington Post went and ‘investigated’ this senile lie, this obviously-false story by Biden, and rated it “true.” It appears they were part of the effort to keep Biden’s obvious mental decline protected from scrutiny.

Those White House staffers who participated in the cover-up would be potentially liable for being conspirators.

18 U.S.C. § 371 – Conspiracy to Defraud the United States

“If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy…”

This statute doesn’t just require someone to do the illegal act, it criminalizes the agreement and coordination to make it happen. Even if one person “presses the button,” those who helped plan, cover up, or enable it are liable.

This could involve personal liability for several key Biden staffers who were in a position of power and trust within the White House, including:

  • White House Legal Counsels Dana Remus (2021-2022), Stuart Delery (2022-2023), Ed Siskel (2023-2025), who likely provided approval, even if informal, to the Presidential staff as they wielded Biden’s tremendous power.
  • White House Chiefs of Staff Ron Klain (2021-2023) and Jeff Zients (2023-2025), who likely directed and at least knew of the use of the autopen to approve key documents.
  • White House Communications Directors Kate Bedingfield (2021-2023), Ben LaBolt (2023-2025), who helped orchestrate the cover-up from the public, Cabinet Secretaries, and Congress.

From today’s release by Project Veritas, it also appears that former First Lady Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff Anthony Bernal also apparently wielded significant power and authority in the Biden White House.

The White House has so far refused to disclose the internal policies governing autopen use or whether Biden personally reviewed documents before they were signed with his name. The question that must now be answered is not whether Biden used the autopen, but who else did and under what authority?

One possible defense to this might be that these staffers were “authorized” by Biden in a supposedly-lucid moment.

But an incompetent President like Biden is likely to have been incapable of properly authorizing staffers to take these actions.

In the past, to avoid these kind of problems, Presidents often recused themselves for short hospital stays or brief periods where their competence could have been in question. President George W. Bush twice formally invoked the 25th Amendment while getting routine colonoscopies in 2002 and 2007 for several hours, transferring Presidential power to Vice President Dick Cheney. In 1985 Ronald Reagan went through surgery for colon cancer and transferred Presidential power to Vice President George H.W. Bush for about eight hours.

The Office of Legal Counsel previously approved autopen use under very narrow circumstances, primarily for bills where the President has expressly directed its use. But legal direction must be current, active, and informed—not inferred, and certainly not assumed by unelected aides behind closed doors.

If pardons or commutations were issued through the autopen without Biden’s real-time awareness, victims of crime and even federal judges could challenge their validity. Likewise, executive orders tied to sweeping policy changes, on borders, mandates, or foreign policy, could be nullified if the originating authority is found fraudulent.

The court’s primary way of remedying past illegal actions by governmental bodies would be to invalidate the actions altogether. However in this case, with fever-pitch politics at stake, the courts are probably unlikely to take a principled and courageous stand to invalidate the illegal actions taken in Biden’s name.

If military orders or diplomatic recognitions were ever signed in this way, it moves beyond fraud to possible constitutional crisis.

Journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed that Biden engaged in an action of international terrorism when Biden allegedly authorized the underwater bombing of the Russian natural gas pipeline Nordstream II in 2022.

If White House and military officials proceeded with this action on the sole authority of staff, without clearing it by a confused and mentally incapacitated President, there could be enormous liabilities. The Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, for example, could lose governmental immunity for taking such actions without a competent President to hide behind for Presidential immunity.

If Joe Biden is not mentally or physically capable of signing key documents, or even of understanding what’s being signed, then someone else is wielding that power. And if they’re using the autopen without real presidential oversight, they aren’t just breaking protocol, they’re committing felonies.

The extraordinary power of the American Presidency is not meant to be used by staff to issue pardons, sign Executive Orders, and engage in international terrorism with a mentally-incapacitated President at the helm.

This could represent one of the gravest constitutional crises in U.S. history: not merely a question of fitness, but of legitimacy. If a President was being used as a figurehead while real power is secretly exercised elsewhere by unelected staffers, every action of the government in the past four years is potentially illegitimate.

The Obama and Biden Justice Departments were very aggressive in their use of lawfare and political persecutions. They went after conservative media outlets, Republican campaigns and campaign staffers, sought to jail all of the January 6th protesters, and aggressively targeted their perceived political enemies.

Online many are skeptical that Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has so far proven loathe to pursue known Democrat crimes and criminal activities, will follow-up on these possible crimes, though reportedly the Justice Department is ‘probing’ the potential misuse of the autopen.

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Judge Subramanian DENIES Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Bail for the Fifth Time – Disgraced Rapper Will Remain in Prison Pending His October 3rd Sentencing

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Judge Subramanian: no “exceptional reasons” to release Diddy before sentencing.

Recent Judge Subramanian’s decisions may indicate hard times for Diddy come sentencing.

We have been following the pre-sentencing motions in the high-profile criminal trial of rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.

The defense: ‘Sean Diddy’s Combs’ Conviction Is Racist and Sexist’, Say Disgraced Rapper’s Lawyers on Yet Another Legal Filing Trying to Release Him on Bail Pending Sentencing

The Prosecution: Prosecutors Oppose Sean Diddy Combs’ 50M Bail Package, Ask for ‘Substantially Higher’ Sentence Than Before

Look who appeared: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial: Ex-girlfirend Who Disappeared and Did Not Testify Against Rapper as ‘Victim 3’ Now Writes Letter to Judge to Grant Him Pre-sentencing Bail

Diddy has had his request for bail denied for the 5th time.

Today, we learn that federal judge Subramanian has yet again declined to grant Sean “Diddy” Combs bail, saying he found no ‘exceptional reasons’ to release him pending his October sentencing.

ABC News reported:

“Combs was convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution, which the judge said mandates incarceration. His sentencing is set for Oct. 3.

Judge Arun Subramanian said Combs remains a risk of flight and a danger to the community, pointing to the violence exhibited on 2016 hotel surveillance footage that shows him kicking and dragging Cassie Ventura.”

Combs remains a risk of flight and a danger to the community: Judge.

The judge ruled that the ‘swinger lifestyle’ argument does not fly in a case that includes ‘evidence of violence, coercion or subjugation in connection with the prostitution’. And the record, he wrote, contains evidence of all three.

Subramanian: “’While Combs may contend at sentencing that this evidence should be discounted and that what happened was nothing more than a case of willing ‘swingers’ utilizing the voluntary services of escorts for their mutual pleasure, the Government takes the opposite view: that Cassie Ventura and Jane were beaten, coerced, threatened, lied to, and victimized by Combs as part of their participation in these’.”

Read more:

As He Awaits Sentencing in Prison, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Joins ‘Self-Improvement’ Program To Curb Drug Use and Violence Against Women

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Nearly 78,000 New Applicants Flood ICE Recruitment to Help Crack Down on Illegal Immigration (VIDEO)

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In a scorching new development under the Trump-backed ICE reign, Acting Director Todd Lyons confidently announced that “we have almost 78,000 applicants since we opened up,” referring to the agency’s massive recruitment surge launched just one week prior.

This seismic surge in interest aligns with ICE’s newly launched “Defend the Homeland” recruitment blitz, unveiled by the Department of Homeland Security on July 29, 2025.

ICE is budgeting for 10,000 new agents, dangling $50,000 signing bonuses, student‑loan forgiveness, enhanced overtime pay, and upgraded retirement plans to attract recruits.

According to the press release:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today launched a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) campaign to recruit brave and heroic Americans to join ICE as federal law enforcement agents and remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from America’s streets.

“Your country is calling you to serve at ICE. In the wake of the Biden administration’s failed immigration policies, your country needs dedicated men and women of ICE to get the worst of the worst criminals out of our country,” said Secretary Kristi Noem. “This is a defining moment in our nation’s history. Your skills, your experience, and your courage have never been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland.”

To support this effort, ICE is offering a robust package of federal law enforcement incentives, including: 

  • A maximum $50,000 signing bonus
  • Student loan repayment and forgiveness options
  • 25% Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) for HSI Special Agents
  • Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime (AUI) for Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) Deportation Officers
  • Enhanced retirement benefits

Backed by significant new funding through the recently signed One Big Beautiful Bill, ICE is rolling out patriotic recruitment posters and benefits to attract the next generation of law enforcement professionals to find, arrest, and remove criminal illegal aliens.

During the Fox interview, Todd Lyons delivered the incredible news.

“We have almost 78,000 applicants since we opened up. We’re going through and finding those people who really want to serve the country and truly be in law enforcement. I think it’s a great way to recruit now.

We’re taking back our re-hired annuitants — people who left the job early because they weren’t allowed to do the law enforcement mission.

But we have so many people who are now interested in working with ICE because, under Secretary Nome’s leadership, they’re seeing that we have a viable law enforcement partner in the community. You’re actually out making a difference. We’re really ecstatic about seeing the increase in new recruits who are applying.”

WATCH:

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls on Trump to Commute George Santos’ Excessive 7-Year-Sentence: ‘Some Members of Congress Who’ve Done Far Worse Still Walk Free’

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R‑GA) has formally thrown down the gauntlet.

On Monday, she submitted a letter to the Office of the Pardon Attorney pleading for President Trump to commute the 87-month federal sentence of ex‑Congressman George Santos (NY‑03)—a punishment she calls “a grave injustice” and emblematic of a justice system fractured by politically selective persecution.

Greene wrote on X:

“BREAKING: I just sent a letter to the Office of the Pardon Attorney urging President Trump to commute the sentence of former Congressman @MrSantosNY.

A 7‑year prison sentence for campaign‑related charges is excessive, especially when Members of Congress who’ve done far worse still walk free.

George Santos has taken responsibility. He’s shown remorse. It’s time to correct this injustice. We must demand equal justice under the law!”

Greene signed her letter Aug. 4 to Pardon Attorney Edward Martin Jr. at the Justice Department, demanding Trump use his executive power to undo what she calls a “grave injustice.”

Drawing on inside knowledge, she described Santos as “without a prior criminal record,” “sincerely remorseful,” and portrayed his case as campaign-related maleficence, nothing warranting “one of the most extreme sentences in recent history.”

Green also reminded officials of the roster of current or former lawmakers who actually broke laws or ethics rules yet never lost a day.

The letter reads:

“I am writing to request that your office urge the President to commute the sentence of former Congressman George Santos. In April 2025, Mr. Santos was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. I wholeheartedly believe in justice and the rule of the law, and I understand the gravity of such actions. However, I believe a seven-year sentence for such campaign-related matters for an individual with no prior criminal record extends far beyond what is warranted.

As a Member of Congress, I worked with Mr. Santos on many issues and can attest to his willingness and dedication to serve the people of New York who elected him to office. He committed himself to serving his constituents and did whatever it took to represent their interests in Washington, D.C. He is sincerely remorseful and has accepted full responsibility for his actions. Furthermore, my office has spoken with a pastor of his who discussed the regret and remorse of Mr. Santos, agreeing that the sentence imposed is a grave injustice.

While his crimes warrant punishment, many of my colleagues who I serve with have committed far worse offenses than Mr. Santos yet have faced zero criminal charges. I strongly believe in accountability for one’s actions, but I believe the sentencing of Mr. Santos is an abusive overreach by the judicial system.

Commuting his sentence would acknowledge the severity of his actions and simultaneously provide a path forward in allowing him to make amends for his crimes and strive to better serve the people in his community.

I respectfully request you to urge the President to commute the sentence of Mr. George Santos.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

According to the Advocate, Trump can pardon Santos, but has not been asked about it.

The Advocate reported:

“He lied like hell, and I didn’t know him,” Trump told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty during an interview at the White House. “But he was 100 percent for Trump. I might’ve met him. Maybe, maybe not, but he was a congressman and his vote was solid.”

[…]

In the Newsmax interview, Trump seemed to question the severity of Santos’s sentence. “It sounds like a lot,” he said. “Is it seven years he just went away? It’s a long time.”

Trump went on to say that while he hadn’t been approached about pardoning Santos, the door remained open. “Nobody’s talked to me about it,” he said. “They really haven’t talked to me about [Santos]. They have talked to me about Sean [Combs], but they haven’t talked to me about [George]. But again, with him, I have the right to do it. Nobody’s asked me, but it’s interesting.”

In April, U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert sentenced Santos to 87 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after a guilty plea in August 2024.

Those charges stemmed from fabricating donor names, laundering campaign funds, misusing donor money, and claiming unemployment while campaigning.

Santos took to social media earlier this year to criticize the ruling and pleaded with President Trump for leniency.

He wrote:

This is the hardest statement I have ever written. I write this humbled, chastened, and fully accountable for choices that shattered the faith so many placed in me.

I betrayed the confidence entrusted to me by many. For that, I offer my deepest apology.

When I pled guilty, I did so without reservation. I said then, and I repeat now, that my conduct betrayed my supporters and diminished the institution I was privileged to serve. Those words have weighed on me every day since.

I cannot rewrite the past, but I can control the road ahead. I asked the Court for a sentence that balances accountability with the chance to prove through sustained, measurable action that I can still contribute positively to the community I wronged.

I believe that 7 years is an over the top politically influenced sentence and I implore that President Trump gives me a chance to prove I’m more than the mistakes I’ve made.

Before the sentencing, Santos had slammed federal prosecutors for going easy on violent criminals while trying to make an example out of him.

“I will however remind everyone that they want me to go to prison for 87 months while they let sex traffickers walk freely, they give drug lords slaps on the wrist and most importantly refuse to prosecute the cabal of pedophiles running around in every power structure in the world including the US Government,” he wrote on X.

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