House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has unleashed what may be the most scathing Republican report yet on Joe Biden’s presidency — accusing the former president’s aides of orchestrating a cover-up of his mental decline and suggesting that key executive actions, including pardons, may not even be legally valid.
In a blistering 100-page report, the GOP majority on the Oversight Committee charged that Biden’s inner circle “hid the truth about the former president’s condition and fitness for office” as his cognitive faculties waned. The report claims that staffers relied on an autopen to sign documents, executive orders, and pardons without confirming that Biden himself had made or even understood the decisions.
“Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides—at the direction of the inner circle—hid the truth,” the report declares. It concludes that any actions taken without Biden’s clear personal authorization “do not carry the force of law and should be considered void.”
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That statement represents a seismic escalation in the House GOP’s confrontation with the Biden legacy. Comer and his allies are urging the Department of Justice to conduct a “comprehensive review” of every executive action Biden signed from January 20, 2021, through January 19, 2025 — especially acts of clemency. The report pointedly suggests that if Biden lacked awareness or intent in granting those pardons, Congress or the courts could deem them invalid.
With the report’s release, Comer and House Republicans are signaling that they may go further — potentially moving to void or challenge Biden’s executive acts, particularly his controversial pardons. That could set the stage for an unprecedented legal and constitutional battle over whether a president’s diminished capacity can nullify his official decisions.
The committee’s findings paint a portrait of chaos inside the Biden White House, citing what it calls a “haphazard documentation process” surrounding the flurry of last-minute pardons — including the extraordinary clemency Biden granted to his own family members, such as his son, Hunter, his brother, James, and two sisters, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and even members of the January 6th Committee, which included now-Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS).
Particularly explosive are revelations that Hunter Biden, according to testimony from former Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, participated in pardon discussions involving his relatives. “Zients testified that President Biden included his son, Hunter Biden, in the decision-making process,” the report says — suggesting a conflict of interest unprecedented in presidential history.
Comer also zeroed in on Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s longtime physician, blasting him for invoking the Fifth Amendment during questioning and calling on the D.C. Board of Medicine to investigate whether O’Connor issued “false or misleading” medical reports. The committee accuses him of bowing to “political pressure” and participating in a “cover-up” of Biden’s health condition.
Comer insists the evidence points to a coordinated deception. “The American people deserve to know who was actually calling the shots in the Biden White House,” he said. “It wasn’t Joe Biden.”
As Comer bluntly put it, “They propped up a man unfit to lead — and lied to the American people while doing it.”
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