The persons who signed the decrees for Joseph Biden with the help of a hacker have been identified, according to Republican Congressman James Comer. Congressional hearings are scheduled on this issue. Meanwhile, another ex-president, Bill Clinton, stood up for the ex-president. He called rumors reports about Biden’s poor mental health and his inability to make decisions on his own.
June in the United States will be rich in events related to the scandal that arose in May at the instigation of two journalists – Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Their book, based on hundreds of interviews, including with senior representatives of the Democratic Party, claims that Biden’s entourage knew about his illnesses that preclude the performance of presidential duties, but hid this information.
The press service of the ex-president announced that he has prostate cancer, and in severe form. There is no officially confirmed information about the mental health of 82-year-old Biden. According to the book by Tapper and Thompson, at least a year ago, the then president had very serious memory problems, which in principle precluded him from fulfilling the duties of head of state. In June 2024, at a fundraising event for his election campaign, Biden did not recognize actor George Clooney, whom they had known for 15 years.
According to the investigation conducted by the Comer-led committee on Oversight and government reform, since the summer, someone could have signed his decrees for the president. If this is true, it turns out that at the end of his presidency, Biden did not make decisions on pardons (including preventive ones, before the official charges were filed), which Donald Trump is so outraged about now. Not only the relatives of the head of state (including his son Hunter Biden) were forgiven. A preventive pardon was granted to members of a special committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress investigating the circumstances of the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters in January 2021, and to police officers involved in those events. In addition, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci were released from punishment by presidential decree. Trump threatened to imprison the first for the chaotic withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, and the second for quarantine measures during the pandemic. In total, Biden commuted the punishment or released 4,200 people from it, a record in the country’s history. If it is proved that he did not make the decisions on pardons, all of them must be overturned by law.
Comer claims that his committee has evidence. “We identified four people who, according to our information, took documents, sent them for automatic signature and made Biden’s signature magically appear on the papers. We want to find out who gave them such powers,” he said on Fox News. Comer did not mention any surnames. It is known that the committee wants to hear, in addition to the wife of former President Jill Biden, as well as his doctor Kevin O’Connor, three now former White House staff members – Nira Tanden, Annie Tomasini and Ashley Williams, as well as Anthony Bernal. The testimony of the latter is particularly interesting. Bernal was a senior adviser to Jill Biden and one of the key organizers of her husband’s election campaign. David Hogg, deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, says that it was this man who had the greatest influence in the presidential entourage. Whether this is true or not, whether Bernal has become the same gray cardinal who signed decrees for Biden, or whether the Democratic party functionaries want to make a scapegoat out of him, will be found out not only in the lower house of Congress. Hearings on the case of the usurpation of presidential powers (this is how the actual deprivation of the right of signature of the head of state can be legally qualified) will also be held in the Senate. And in the American legislative system, it is the upper house of Congress that is most influential.
Hogg is one of the few representatives of the Democratic leadership who has said anything about the unfolding scandal. Barack Obama, during whose reign Biden was vice president, is silent. But Clinton spoke out. In an interview with CBS, he said that Biden was “always aware of everything” and should not confuse “evidence of aging with evidence of mental disability.”
The people he called are expected to testify to the Comer committee in the coming days. The first of them will be former deputy assistant to the President Williams. She was called in on June 2nd. The Senate hearings will be held within a month. In the meantime, Trump’s supporters continue to shock Americans with information about the health status of the one who ruled the country for four years.
Republican Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley claimed in an interview with Fox News that, according to a certain Secret Service employee (the structure protecting the head of state), Biden was in such poor health that he somehow got stuck in a closet. “I mean, he literally couldn’t get out of his own closet. The President of the United States!”– Hawley was indignant.
However, in connection with the Biden health case, the public, and not only the American public, is more interested in the details of the head of state’s life, which are not piquant and have not yet been confirmed by anything other than anonymous sources, but in the consequences. After all, the president signed many documents. Among them, there are not only decrees on pardons that Trumpists are primarily interested in. Biden’s signature is on the laws on military assistance to Ukraine, on the basis of which it receives ammunition and weapons to this day. What about them then?