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Ben Domenech
Oct 29, 2025
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Neal Pollack in The Spectator:

Yesterday the House Oversight Committee released an extraordinary 91-page document called “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion and Deception in The White House.” Based on interviews with a dozen Biden aides, the committee concluded, essentially, that Biden was a puppet President incapable of self-functioning. Biden’s advisers took “steps” to make him appear marginally Presidential. The report states:

“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 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.”

All this is part and parcel of the Trump administration and Republican congressional majority’s efforts to erase all traces of the Biden presidency from existence. The Biden camp, as usual, claims there was nothing wrong and that Joe was sharp as a tack during his time in office.

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