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let me just clear out a couple of these Twitter
messages from the last well last two hours. Is going
over the shutdown and the impact on the food stamp
budget and how people who are on food stamps are
now at risk of not getting their food stamps. This
tweet from app patriot Girl who says the welfare state
is designed to make people dependent so the Democrats can
maintain power. They're willing to sacrifice their own peap for leverage. Indeed,
that's why I called it the Hamas strategy. Democrats are
fully employing Hamas's strategy here, using them as a human shield.
If you will no wonder they align with Hamas, Yes,
I will like that tweet, Communist America, says William Sarah says,
sacrificing their own people. Melissa says, if Social Security is taxed,
why isn't Snap taxed. That's a good question. Yeah, I'm
not considered that before the first segment of the Second
Hour today was one of the very best summary about
this Democrat impasse regarding the passing of the Clean cr
Your explanation needs to be repeated by every Republican and
libertarian so everyone understands communism. That's from Dad. Thanks Dad.
This is exactly why Lyndon Johnson passed the Great American
Society Act in nineteen sixty eight. I see a couple
of references to that, yet Lbj's Great Society. That was
the point. You hook people onto the public dole and
then their voters for life, and if you're not getting
your way, you will then starve them in order to
make people feel bad for them so you can get
policy victories that you could not otherwise achieve. That's the
Democrat strategy. It was the strategy of Hamas, still is
the strategy of Hamas as well. That's why they are
fully embracing Hamas. The Democrat Party fully embracing hamas so.
The House Oversight Committee published its final report on its
investigation into the use by the Biden administration of the
auto pen, and I have read through the executive's summary
of the report and they conclude that at least some
of the President's orders were invalid and they're calling on
the Justice Department to investigate. They took three months to
go over the information, read through the emails, read through
the reports, also to depose a bunch of people, some
of whom took the fifth and refused to cooperate. James Comer,
the chair of the Oversight Committee, conducted fourteen depositions and
transcribed interviews with senior White House staff. Biden White House staff,
including two chiefs of staff, his personal physician, along with
senior advisors, the personal physician for the president, as well
as the chief of staff for Jill Biden sorry sorry,
doctor Jill Biden. They each invoked their Fifth Amendment right
against self incrimination. The Oversight Committee concluded that senior Biden
White House staff illegally exercised the President's authority on his
behalf by directing the use of the auto pen, and
failed to document the office's decision making processes. So that is,
by the way, from Stephen Richards writing at justthnews dot com.
That is the website started by John Solomon. So from
the executive summary here, in case you have not had
a chance nor intended to read it, I will give
you portions of the executive summary. They've investigated. The committee
has investigated the circumstances surrounding Joe Biden's diminishing mental and
physical capabilities and the implications of that decline. And then
they've got a little footnote on that sentence. Okay, it's
the first sentence of the executive summary, and the footnote
here reads and you'll forgive me here because it's very small.
It's at the bottom of the page. During this investigation,
Democratic members and staff have attempted to minimize or outrighte deny,
and have attempted to cajole witnesses to minimize or outr
deny what is now reported as fact President Biden is
in mental decline. This report will not spend words grappling
with whether a reported established fact is anything other than
a fact and an obvious one. President Biden's cognitive decline
was apparent to any person who watched him interact with
the press, the public, or world leaders for years as president.
Assertions made to the contrary are nothing less than gaslighting.
Instead of debating the obvious and in so doing implicitly
legitimizing voices that seek to rewrite history, this report will
instead provide findings regarding the extent of President Biden's decline
and the repercussions and ramifications of that reality. So when
I first read that, I thought, I kind of feel
like you should make the case. But upon further reflection,
now I'm thinking, you just don't even concede, like, just
don't even entertain it. So, like I can understand why
we're not even going to argue with you on this.
You want to argue that he wasn't in decline, and
that just makes you look stupid. So we're not going
to argue with you on this. We're going to talk
about and look at the extent of the decline and
the repercussions that it had. They go on to say
in this summary. Even more troubling than the president experiencing
a decline in mental acuity was President Biden's inner circle
of loyalists attempting to mislead the nation to ignore what
people's eyes plainly showed them. Throughout President Biden's term, people
increasingly questioned if he was, or questioned if the slurring
of words, mistaking of names, visible disorientation, confusion, and dependence
on aids for basic direction, all of which the public
witnessed live could indicate anything but the serious cogniti decline
of President Biden. The Committee has investigated whether senior White
House officials possibly exercised the authority of the former president
or intentionally concealed Biden's rapidly worsening mental and physical state.
The Committee has found evidence to indicate they did both.
That they did both. They exercised the authority of the
former president and intentionally concealed as decline. They did both.
The Biden autopen presidency ranks among the greatest scandals in
US history. I agree, but I also throw in there
the media's complicitness complicity. Complicity. Yes, as President Biden declined,
his staff abused the autopen, along with a lax chain
of command policy, to affect executive actions that lack any
documentation of whether they were in fact authorized. This is
the trust us defense that the White House officials tried
to make in their depositions, which is we didn't take
any notes. We don't have any contemporaneous notes like right
after the meeting with Biden, Like we didn't take notes
during the meeting. We didn't take any notes after the meeting. No, no, no,
we didn't do any of that. But you just have
to trust us that by the time, like a month later,
that we wrote down this stuff that we're not lying
now and on stuff that we never wrote down. You
have to believe us now that we're telling you the
truth about what actually happened in that meeting that we
did not take any notes on and we have no
records of anymore. Just sorry about that. While President Biden
became progressively less able to do his job, when every
measure should have been taken a document and if ever questioned,
prove that Biden had made these final decisions, Instead, the
White House staff took shortcuts and ad hoc actions to
keep the Biden presidency afloat right. And that's the key
here too, is that when you know the president is
in decline like this and it's getting harder and harder
and harder for him to make decisions and such, you
would think that you would take more efforts, right, you
would make more of an effort to document these things
to cover your took us. However, they went the opposite direction.
They chose to just not document anything, like just do
less and less, as if they had something to hide.
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The executives here from the House Oversight Committee regarding the
auto pen scandal, the committee found there was, in fact
a cover up of the president's cognitive decline, and there's
no record demonstrating President Biden himself made all of the
executive decisions that have been attributed to him. That's the uh,
that's the big takeaway. They say, these advisors continue to
hold these beliefs today, denying that Biden's cognitive impairment was
ever even a concern for voters. That's what they continue
to say. They quote a whole bunch of these advisors
like Ron Klain, Kate Bettingfield. And then there was this
little nugat when asked directly on a podcast if President
Biden had dementia. White House Press Secretary Carin Jean Pierre replied, quote,
I can't even believe you are asking me this question,
that that is an incredibly offensive question, then rejected the
premise of the question and hung up, abruptly ending the
interview after just one hundred and fifty seconds. And that
was actually not a podcast. Now they may have heard
it on a podcast. I don't know which podcast. It
could have been mine because I played the audio, But
it was originally audio that was captured by WBT news
director Mark Garrison who got an interview with Corine Jean
Pierre and asked her flat out and she said that
does he have dementia? And then she says that's incredibly
offensive and then and then ended the interview. So that
made it that made it to the congressional hearing or
a report. Rather central to this scheme was the former
president's longtime physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor, who recklessly never conducted
a cognitive exam of the president. Doctor O'Connor invoked his
Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination when the committee asked
if he was told to lie about Biden's health and
whether Biden was fit to be president. The committee recommends
that the district of Columbia Board of Medicine review the
actions taken by doctor O'Connor for any potential wrongdoing, including
whether he produced false or misleading medical reports to the
American public. So sounds like they're going to try to
make this or they're turning it over to the medical
Board to try to take his license or enact some
sort of sanction against this guy for what he did. Now,
I doubt that'll happen because it's Washington, DC, and I
suspect that there will be the same sort of bias
infecting the Medical Board there that infects basically everything in Washington,
d C. From juries to the bar so and I
mean the the legal bar, not the pubs, because I
think Republicans have like a bar that they go to.
Doctor O'Connor, who had business dealings with and financial connections
to the Biden family, is not the only participant in
this scheme with an incentive to cover up the truth.
Mike donnellan senior advisor to President Biden, was responsible for
getting accurate polling data to the president, Which is kind
of funny because I remember doing the story oh gosh,
probably what three years ago, when I forget what publication
did it. But the story was that the Biden camp
was not giving Joe Biden the accurate data or accurate
polling data. They were not showing him the polls that
were bad for him, but any poll that came along,
no matter how suspect the source was, they would show
him that. And that's why he would get on stage
or do like the like two interviews that he did
during his entire administration. He would get on there and
he would be like, my boy, say my god. And
that was largely interpreted to mean that he thought his
polling was fantastic and he was gonna win. I think
he still believes it to this day that he was
going to win, that he could have won, he should
have won, but for some reason, they pushed him out
and we may never know why. Because he had a cold.
I think, right, he had a cold. Wasn't that the story?
Or he was jet legged? Because it changed? Yeah, the
story changed. I forget what. I forget what final version
they went with on that why he was why he
was so terrible during that debate performance that he was
it was the pain meds or is the cold medicine?
Or is he was jet legged? But that never really
made sense because he had returned from overseas like ten
days prior to the debate or something like that. So
I'm not really sure why I thought that one would fly.
But this guy, Mike Donaldan, his job was to get
quote accurate polling to the president. Donalin told the committee
that he stood to make a total of eight million
dollars by keeping Biden in the presidential race and getting
him re elected. And there is a video clip of
this part of the deposition. I would play it, but
it's it runs a little over two minutes, and about
one minute and fifty seconds of it is dead air
because he struggles to figure out a way to explain
why he has no financial motive in keeping Biden on
the ticket, and he just couldn't. He could not conjure
up an explanation because there is none there, There isn't
any There isn't any explanation other than like he's going
to get He got four million dollars for his services,
and if he got Biden to win again, he would
get another four million. So he was invested. He had
a financial incentive to ensure that Biden got on the
got you know, renominated and re elected, which means what.
You've got a four million dollar payout hanging out there
while you're advising the president, and you see he's in
mental decline. Do you think that that might, I don't know,
cloud your judgment a little bit. You got four million
dollars sitting there, and all you got to do is
get this guy across the finish line. But you know
he doesn't have it in him anymore. You know that
he's he's sucking wind here and you can't let anybody see.
So now you have an incentive to shield him from
the public and to participate in the cover up. The
committee found these incentives, among others, motivated the inner Circle
to conceal the president's decline while running the government in
his stead. Anita Dunn, longtime political operative and Biden aid,
who served as a senior advisor to the former president,
told the committee that the former president's senior advisers reached
a consensus that President Biden should not undergo a cognitive exam,
despite persistent calls from the public to do so. This
revelation that the president's political advisors interfered with his healthcare
to fuel a cover up of his condition was corroborated
by Biden's second chief of staff, Jeff Zeinz. Why are
his political advisers saying no cognitive exam right because they
know he won't pass, so better to not do it
this way. You have plausible deniability. And why wouldlical advisors
make that recommendation? But for politics, all right? If you're
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during that debate, at the point where Trump said I
don't know what he said, I don't believe he does either,
at that point Biden was done. I completely agree that
was it. People can talk about, Oh, you know, he
kind of got into a stride, you know, like an
hour into the two hour debate, but by then it
was too late. He came out of the gate looking confused.
And maybe they mistimed whatever the medical or pharmaceutical cocktail
was that they had them all jacked up on, like
preading his own or whatever I've heard people suggest, and
maybe they just mistimed it. They wanted to make sure
that he could make it through the end of the debate.
And by the way, I'm like, just be clear, I'm
not mocking Joe Biden for suffering cognitive decline like that's
I never have. I mock the people around him, and
I criticized the people around him, who kept him in
that position, and who covered up his decline for whatever reason.
It doesn't matter whether you think, well, Joe would want us,
you know, to do this for him, for America, you know,
for the people or whatever. I don't care. I don't
None of that matters to me. Like this guy was
in charge of the nuclear codes. So no, no, you
don't get to you don't get to say that this
was some selfless act of service. No, no, none of
that matters. The guy was holding the most powerful position
in American politics and government and indeed the world, and
he was in cognitive decline. We could all see it.
We could all see it, and then you gaslit us. Now,
a Biden's spokesperson is quoted here. This is from the
article in the Hill dot com. A Biden spokesperson that
they don't name. So I don't think you can be
a spokesperson, Like, why do you get identified as a
spokesperson when you are not named in the story. I
don't get that, But it's the Hill. So a Biden
spokesperson said the GOP report failed to provide evidence to
back the claims. Quote. This investigation into baseless claims has
confirmed what has been clear from the start. President Biden
made the decisions of his presidency. There was no conspiracy,
no cover up, and no wrongdoing. So you haven't read
the report because it literally says all of those things
did happen. There was a conspiracy. In fact, here we
go the cover up. This is from the report. The
cover up was facilitated by extremely loyal senior staff, including
Annie Thomasini, deputy chief of staff to Biden, Anthony Bernaal,
chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden. Both of
them pleaded the fifth as well as the doctor O'Connor.
Like it says right there that there was a cover up,
it's not saying there was no cover up. The report
clearly says there was a cover up. But then, of
course the pivot happens from the spokesperson Congressional Republicans should
stop focusing on political retribution and instead work to end
the government shutdown. There you go, right, focus on the shutdown. Well, see,
here's the thing though. One of the key points here
in the report is the signing of the pardons and
the grants of clemency to hundreds think actually over one
thousand people. Entire categories of people, right, did you get
busted for crack cocaine, you get a pardon, you get clemency, whatever,
And it now raises the question of whether or not
all of those pardons were legitimate. See, so this isn't
about political retribution. This is about whether or not the
things that were done were legal and whether or not
they are now void. So no, I'm not going to
only focus on the thing you want me to focus
on instead of the thing that you know makes you
look bad or may open you up or your friends
up to criminal charges. But that's just me. I can
focus on more than one thing in the news. It's
a gift, what can I say. The committee's investigation, according
to the report, revealed that Biden officials at the behest
of the inner circle went to great lengths to prop
up the former president as he began losing the ability
to independently function in office. These steps ranged from addressing
President Biden's makeup clothing schedule, the number of steps that
he could walk or climb, remember he had to take
the short stairs into Air Force one, the amount of
time that the president needed to read and to spend
with his family. Working to meticulously stage manage him, limiting
the number of the events he participated in, lightening the
president's workload, making it difficult even for senior Democrats to
access the president, 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 gatherings.
And by the way, all of those examples have footnotes
based on transcribed interviews with the various aids. The investigation
revealed holes in the chain of custody of the President's
decision binder. I did not know there was a decision binder,
but apparently there is, and it contains decision memos to
be signed or initialed by the President when he is
approving or disapproving executive actions. And there was a chain
of command problem, or sorry, chain of custody problem. In
other words, the binder didn't go where it was supposed
to go in the order in which it was supposed
to go. Also, numerous instances in which the president's approval
for an executive action or the Chief of staff's approval
of signature by auto pen was not memorialized. So all
of that stuff is supposed to be recorded. In fact,
there's a person whose job it is to do that
to write everything down, and these things were not written down,
and that's why you got Biden world people saying, oh, well,
you know there's no evidence of that. Yeah, because you
didn't write any of the notes. And by the way,
in court, when people it's called spoilation of or spoliation,
spoilation of evidence. When people destroy evidence, hide evidence right,
or don't collect it right, judges can direct juries to
say that that can be weighed against the defendant as
evidence of guilt. That they knew if this evidence were
ever discovered that it would incriminate them, which is why
they took steps to quote spoil it so it could
not be found. So the failure of your employee, whose
sole job it is to record these things, the failure
of that person to record all of the things, could
be viewed as incriminating as I view it, because it's
pretty clear that's exactly why they didn't have her there
to record anything, because she would have been like, oh,
the president's not even here, and you guys are right
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you probably have never heard before. CNN has a program
called The Arena. I did not know this either, So
there you go. I passed this information onto you. And
uh on the arena or I guess in the arena, Yeah,
on the Arena. Scott Jennings the only Republican that's allowed
to be on CNN. Uh, he was on this program,
The Arena. He's a you know pundit if you will.
He now has his own radio show and he's having
a discussion about this auto pen story. And here is
that auto Here is this exchange. The host is Casey Hunt.
Speaker 2: Edition of auto pens has existed in every presidential administration.
Speaker 1: Hang on, this is Elliott Williams, a legal analyst US parties.
Speaker 2: I had an auto pen when I worked at ICE.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Elliot Williams important enough to have autopen.
Speaker 2: Impressed I'm important, case but no it h and so
it's a common product.
Speaker 3: Allow people to use the name Elliott Williams. Without your
knowledge of the document or what was on the page.
Speaker 2: I don't recall.
Speaker 3: I'm asking you, if you were a government official and
you had an autopen, which you did, would you let
some staffer sign pages in your name without.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the question. Here's the question. Was my authority
delegated to that person? And I think they do have
the authority to do so laws and regulation and I'm serious, Scott,
laws and regulation, the.
Speaker 3: Authority to delegate pardons and executive orders. The President of
the United States can say you, unelected staff or can
go sign my name on a document that I've never
seen for a decision that I've never made.
Speaker 2: Quite often, the United States Code delegates authority, so through
the President of the United States, through the Attorney General,
whatever else X person can carry out a function. And
certainly that could be the case now. Donald Trump, for instance,
in his first term, pardoned like sixteen hundred people, and
I have a hard time believing that he was aware
of every single person that he was pardoning. One could
make a challenge every president does this. Now, if it's
a call on if it's a question about Biden's fitness
for office, did he know what? Of course, raise that question.
But I just one. Given how vast the pardon power is,
and too given how comprehensive the use of autopens are
across administrations, I have a hard time knowing bodgal challenge.
Speaker 3: Nobody can be delegated the pardon power. It is a
constitutional power, yes, And I don't really think you can
delegate the executive order power because the executive has to
make sense.
Speaker 1: Work, all right, So there you go. That's Scott Jennings.
Here's the problem with the Elliott's position from the report.
Testimony before the committee confirmed that the pardons signed on
January nineteenth, so like right before Biden walked out the door,
included pardons from members of his family. They were apparently
the result of an in person meeting in the final
hours of the presidency for which there is no documentation.
Instead of actual documentation, the decision to grant these pardons
was allegedly communicated second hand to a Zeints aid named
Rosa Pohe, who then called Zeints who verbally authorized the
use of the autopen from home. Zeints did not even
know who actually used the autopen to apply this signature.
After his aid, using his email account with his permission,
communicated that the autop and was authorized for the clemency actions.
Nobody knows who gave the order. Nobody knows Zience did
so without confirming with President Biden that he had in
fact granted these pardons after repeatedly telling the American people
he would not pardon his son, let alone the five
other members of the Biden family in the waning hours
of his presidency, and there's no documentation of the only
meeting where this was supposedly discussed with the President. I'm
not buying it, all right, that'll do it for this episode.
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