Now that Jake Tapper and crew have had their epiphany about the meat puppet that periodically occupied the White House for the previous four years, it’s long past time congress find out who knew what and when about President Joe Biden’s addled mind.
The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee is preparing to hold hearings into what is shaping up to be the worst cover-up in U.S. presidential history.
Word this week that Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer only underscores the necessity of multiple congressional investigations into who was actually running the White House as the president faded away before our eyes. While questions remain more than four and a half years later about who exactly elected Joe Biden president, one thing is certain: his stand-ins had no constitutional right to run the show.
“I want to know if he was actually the president of the United States. I want to know what actions are invalid. And then, of course, there are the constitutional questions that come into play,” Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., told me this week on The Federalist Radio Hour. “How do we address those things, if we can at all? And how do we make sure this never happens again?”
‘Lights Were On But Nobody Was Home’
Despite the gaslighting from Tapper and his fellow corporate media hacks insisting that they were tricked about Biden’s cognitive decline, Ogles said the former president’s profound senility was evident early on. The congressman noted a disturbing exchange he had with Biden moments before his last State of the Union Address.
Ogles was wearing a white button with Laken Riley’s name on it. The button was the same one that Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wore as she demanded Biden say the slain young woman’s name. As Biden walked down the aisle of the House chamber, he stopped to perfunctorily greet the Republican. As the two men were shaking hands, Ogles touched the button on his lapel and told Biden, “I want you to look at my button. It’s for Laken Riley. She was killed by an illegal and I need you to do something about it.” The 22-year-old nursing student was found dead on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. Her murderer, an illegal immigrant, is now serving a life sentence for his heinous crimes. The Tren de Aragua-linked man ended up in Georgia thanks to a free flight from the Biden administration.
Ogles said he paused, and Biden looked back at him with a blank stare.
“He doesn’t say anything for a moment or two then he kind of raises his hand and shudders and he says, ‘Oh, I like your button.’ He couldn’t process the idea the button has the name of a dead girl on it. He could only process the first part of that statement,” the lawmaker said.
“Very quickly his handlers realized he and I were having a very serious conversation and they whisked him away from me,” Ogles recalled. “It was in that moment, and I’m not trying to be disrespectful, I could see in his eyes [that] the lights were on but nobody was home.”
‘Treason of the Highest Level’
President Donald Trump, Biden’s predecessor and successor and the man the left has billed as a “dictator,” has long considered Biden as an empty vessel of leftist string pullers. In a post on Truth Social, Trump blasted the cover-up, particularly the use of a dementia-ridden commander-in-chief to allow millions of illegal immigrants to invade the United States “TREASON of the Highest Level!!”
“Joe Biden was not for Open Borders, he never talked about Open Borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, can flow into our Country at will. It wasn’t his idea to Open the Border, and almost destroy our Country, and cost us Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to get criminals out of our Country, and go through the process we are going through now,” Trump wrote. “It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the Autopen. They stole the Presidency of the United States, and put us in Great Danger.”
Trump and his fellow Republicans have raised questions about the frequent use of the autopen to sign executive directives of which a senile Biden may have had little to no comprehension.
Following Axios’ release of the damning audio from Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee said the mechanical signature device appears to have gotten quite a workout over Biden’s tenure in the Oval Office.
“Clearly, from that interview, which was many, many months prior to the heavy use of the autopen, Joe Biden wasn’t capable of making decisions. He wasn’t coherent,” Comer said last week in an interview on Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
The concern has been percolating for some time, but exploded in the waning days of Biden’s term when the administration delivered a record number of commutations and pardons — some 1,500 in a single day. The scandal inspired Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., to introduce the Signature Integrity for Granting National (SIGN) Pardons Act, requiring presidents to physically sign presidential pardons.
‘Unprecedented Precedent’
Comer subpoenaed three White House gatekeepers in the last session of Congress, and requested a transcribed interview with Biden physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor. The chairman said the White House obstructed his committee’s investigation and refused to make aides available for interviews and depositions.
Comer called the cover-up “one of the greatest scandals of our generation.”
“The American people deserve to know who was actually calling the shots in the Biden White House, because it wasn’t Joe Biden. His mental decline was obvious to anyone paying attention,” Comer said in a press release announcing the committee’s continued investigation into Biden’s mental decline. “But instead of being honest, the Biden Administration, Democrats in Congress, and the legacy media lied and covered it up. They gaslit the American people while propping up a man who was unfit to lead.”
Constitutional law expert Hans von Spakovsky said Congress will continue to hit a stone wall with Biden’s physician, his aides, and his Cabinet members unless Trump does what his predecessor did in a sweeping lawfare campaign to neutralize the left’s top political enemy. Von Spakovsky said White House conversations would be privileged unless executive privilege is waived.
“What’s interesting about that is the unprecedented precedent the Biden administration set. When they attempted prosecutions of Trump they said they were waiving the executive privilege of communications that Trump had as president, no one considered that was possible to do to a prior president,” von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said in an interview Wednesday.
“If Biden’s aides are subpoenaed and called into testify, what could happen to them could be exactly what happened to Trump’s aides when Biden waived executive privilege then,” he said, adding that he believes Trump would “take great delight” in assisting the investigative committees in getting answers.
‘Where the Hell Was Everybody?’
Ever an Algonquin Roundtable of political wits, the hostesses of The View this week sounded stunned about admissions from accomplice media outlets that Biden wasn’t all there when he was supposed to be leading the nation. Whoopi Goldberg couldn’t think of “anything” Biden did as president that could be considered “bad” or a reflection of his dwindling cognition.
“If you’re telling me that hundreds of people knew that he was not able to do his job, where the hell was everybody?” shouted Goldberg, whose cognitive abilities have been questioned for years. They were lying, Whoopi. And you were either in on the lie to fit your Trump-hating, liberal predilections or you are just that breathtakingly stupid.
Americans know what Whoopi apparently doesn’t: The cover-up is a serious scandal.
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey published Wednesday found 72 percent of likely U.S. voters believe “it’s a serious scandal that White House staffers were aware of Biden’s declining mental condition but worked to conceal his condition from the public and members of Congress.” That includes 48 percent who consider the scandal “Very Serious.”
“Just 23% don’t think the cover-up of Biden’s condition is a serious scandal,” the pollster reported.
‘It Gets Back to Accountability’
While von Spakovsky isn’t optimistic that anyone will be held accountable, he said the cover-up was so “irresponsible” that those involved should be barred from ever holding public office again.
The list of how things went terribly thanks to the political puppet masters is long and troubling. Ogles who serves on the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Biden’s foreign policy disasters must be viewed through the lens of an absent commander-in-chief. And it all happened right before Whoopi’s and the world’s eyes.
Who could forget the images of Biden wandering off at the G-7 Summit (accomplice media told us such video was “deceptively cropped”) and having to be corralled by Italy’s prime minister?
“It’s no wonder that under Joe Biden you saw Iran and their proxies attack Israel. It’s not wonder Russia was emboldened to attack Ukraine,” Ogles said. “And then you look at South and Central America, where otherwise pro-U.S. countries have now shifted toward China in part because they saw us as weak, part of it because of the DEI nonsense that we were pushing in religious countries in Central and South America.”
“But again it gets back to accountability.Who knew what and when?” the congressman added.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
