Crucial New Detail Emerges From Testimony in “Autopen” Scandal from Oversight Project
Yesterday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Neera Tanden, the former White House Staff Secretary, was the person in control of Joe Biden’s autopen from October 2021 thru May 2023, when she was promoted to White House Domestic Policy Council. During the closed-door testimony under oath, Tanden testified that she was authorized to direct the autopen as well but denied neither manipulating nor abusing the authority.
The Washington Examiner reported that Tanden was given authority to use the pen and “was responsibile for handling the flow of documents to and from the president.”
Now, a crucial new detail has emerged regarding the closed-door testimony. According to an Oversight Project press release, Tanden would utilize the autopen without actually verifying from Biden himself that it was an authorized action. From the release:
“…she would send decision memos to Biden’s inner circle with no visibility of approval between sending the memo and receiving it back. Tanden’s testimony confirms that she affixed Biden’s signature onto presidential documents without direct knowledge that Biden authorized the given action.
“Given Biden’s clearly deteriorating condition and lack of capacity, it was incumbent on Tanden to actually confirm that Biden himself was capable of and actually making decisions. Instead, it appears that a close cabal of advisors were put between the autopen and the President.”
Oversight Project President Mike Howell joined Chanel Rion on OANN’s Fine Point to discuss the autopen scandal:
We’re going to learn that there were two types of people running the Biden White House.
The politburo where decisions were made and White House staff where decisions were implemented.
No one voted for the autopen to be President.@OANN @ChanelRion pic.twitter.com/VSvhYyxB80
— Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) June 25, 2025
The Washington Examiner also reported yesterday that Tanden “was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents” and that the administration used the “system for authorizing the use of the autopen that [she] inherited from prior administrations” through her tenure as staff secretary.
President Trump earlier this month called the autopen saga “the biggest scandal outside the rigged 2020 election,” saying that he wasn’t a “big autopen person, fortunately.” President Trump added that the autopen is used when you get “thousands of letters from…people all over the country” and that is where the autopen “starts and stops.”
President Trump said that Biden “was never for open borders…transgender for everybody…men playing in women’s sports…frankly, I said it during the debate and I say it now, he didn’t have much of an idea what was going on.”
In January 2021, President Trump prophesized that, “The 25th Amendment is of zero risk to me, but will come back to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden administration. As the expression goes, be careful what you wish for.”
Howell would go on to discuss the 25th Amendment with Rion:
Kamala Harris and the Biden Cabinet abdicated their duty to invoke the 25th Amendment, Section 4.
They knew Joe Biden was incapacitated but preferred it.
The autopen was a device to make the White House work without a President.@OANN @ChanelRion pic.twitter.com/JiXKDng8vK
— Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) June 25, 2025
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