‘This Is Impersonation Of The President’: Expert Lays Out The Stakes Of Biden’s Autopen Controversy

Former President Joe Biden may have unknowingly crippled fossil fuel projects because staffers may have abused their authority to sign orders the president never approved. 

Daniel Turner, founder of Power The Future, testified to Congress on Wednesday that White House staff may have used an autopen of Biden’s signature in a major “deceit of the American people.” Turner’s group has called for an investigation into eight of Biden’s executive orders over suspicions that they may have been signed without the president’s knowledge.

“This is impersonation of the president,” Turner explained to GOP Rep. James Comer. “Staffers, of course, have a lot of leniency in what they do working on behalf of the president, but these executive orders that we identified, there’s no evidence of Joe Biden in first person, in his voice as president talking about them.”

“When you ban the export of liquid natural gas and you never get asked about it in person, one has to wonder if Joe Biden did it or if a staffer did it on his behalf?” Turner continued.

Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, is leading a congressional investigation into the Biden administration’s use of an autopen to sign executive orders as part of a larger probe into a White House cover-up of the former president’s precipitous health decline.

Turner cited an anecdote from House Speaker Mike Johnson about a meeting the speaker had with Biden. Earlier this year, Johnson relayed that he once met with Biden and questioned the former president on an order pausing liquified natural gas exports to non-Free Trade Agreement countries. Biden had denied ever signing the order.

“He genuinely didn’t know what he had signed,” Johnson said. “I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘we are in serious trouble — who is running the country?’ Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.”

The story at the time had been taken as more evidence of the former president’s mental decline. But, Biden may also have been honestly ignorant that his signature was on the order, Turner said.

“Two things can be true: maybe he really didn’t know what Speaker Johnston was talking about. Maybe he had no idea he passed this executive order,” said Turner. “If the president was never asked about it, and he hides from the press, and there’s no opportunity for him to get asked in public about it, how do we know he actually did it?”

Turner said that in the course of these questionable executive orders being carried out, “lives were destroyed.”

“When you ban the export of liquid natural gas, there are hundreds of thousands of men and women who work in the natural gas industry. Lives are destroyed. People went bankrupt because of” an order Biden may not have knowingly signed, Turner said.

🚨 Chairman Comer (@RepJamesComer) and @DanielTurnerPTF raise SERIOUS questions about Biden’s executive orders and the AUTOPEN SCANDAL.

COMER: “Your group expressed concerns that over six of the Biden admin’s executive actions, signed by the autopen, related to climate policy… pic.twitter.com/LgNz3MiE59

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 4, 2025