Overview

• Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer reported that interviews and depositions have yielded no indication that Biden was aware of who operated the autopen device or what documents it signed.
• Biden’s physician Kevin O’Connor and former first lady Jill Biden’s ex–chief of staff Anthony Bernal both invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked about the autopen process.
• Comer cautioned that pardons bearing an autopen signature could face legal challenges and vowed to subpoena additional White House aides for testimony.
• In a New York Times interview, Biden said he established broad clemency criteria and personally approved every decision, explaining that he tasked staff with using the autopen because “we’re talking about a whole lot of people.”
• Media commentators have clashed over coverage of the autopen issue, with critics like Mark Halperin faulting leading outlets for omitting Republican and legal expert perspectives.