During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) spoke about former President Joe Biden’s use of the auto-pen to sign executive orders.
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00:00Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. Turner, I've launched an investigation, or the committee has, we all have, into the role of former senior White House officials in possibly abusing the authority of former President Joe Biden while the former president was rapidly deteriorating mentally and physically.
00:19We will be conducting transcribed interviews of a number of former White House officials to understand who was really making the decisions for President Biden.
00:28Your group, Power the Future, has expressed concerns that over half a dozen of the Biden administration executive actions, which were signed by the Autopen, related to climate policy, should be deemed null and void, again, due to the fact that they were signed by the Autopen without any public comment from President Biden confirming his knowledge of them.
00:54Now, why is it important that the American people know the truth about whether President Biden knowingly signed these orders, making significant and drastic shifts in our energy policy?
01:05Thank you for the question, sir. We're looking at this from the sense of deceit of the American people. This is impersonation of the president.
01:12Staffers, 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.
01:24Talking about them. And I see some Pennsylvanians on the panel. 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 his staffer did it on his behalf.
01:36You specifically expressed concern that President Biden was not aware of that specific action to implement the executive order pausing liquefied natural gas permits.
01:48Now, why are you specifically concerned the president was unaware of that specific order?
01:53Well, there's an anecdote from earlier this year where Speaker of the House Johnson mentioned he was in conversation with President Biden and brought it up and the president said, I don't know what you're talking about.
02:03At the time, that was understood as, wow, maybe the president's a little worse off than we realized.
02:08But maybe two things can be true. Maybe he really didn't know what Speaker Johnson was talking about.
02:12Maybe he had no idea he passed this executive order. And if the president has 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?
02:25And these are serious executive orders. This is not.
02:28It is bizarre. You know, when President Trump signed his executive orders, we saw him sign the executive orders.
02:33He had a big event. He was they were talking about the executive orders.
02:38They said this is what this specific executive order is.
02:40We never saw any of that. No, and lives were destroyed, sir.
02:44And 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.
02:50Lives are destroyed. People went bankrupt because of that.
02:52And we have no evidence that Joe Biden himself actually.
02:55We haven't found any evidence either that and ironically, unlike some of the investigations we've done in the past with respect to the former president,
03:03not many of the colleagues on the other side of the aisle are disputing many of the things that have come out in the Tapper book,
03:13the things that have come out with statements like what former Transportation Secretary Buttigieg and others have said that they were shielded from the president.
03:22So we look forward to having these staffers come in.
03:26Our committee will be conducting transcribed interviews, possibly depositions, depending on how quickly they they come in.
03:34And hopefully we'll get the truth to the American people.
03:36I want to switch gears and talk about the NGOs.
03:41The full committee has another investigation into, you know, the green energy scam.
03:47I don't know how else to put it.
03:50Known as the Green Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and the NGOs that received significant amounts of money through it.
03:58Can you tell us a little bit about about this?
04:02And the NGOs and the left, obviously, they advocate for initiatives as an excuse to spend billions in local communities, but but enrich themselves to who else benefits from these from these handouts?
04:16You know, they're every every Democrat.
04:18I know Miss Stanger very loves government programs.
04:20They love to spend money and create bureaucracies.
04:23But but who really benefits from programs like this specific scam that I talked about?
04:28The operatives aligned to to to these organizations, consultancy groups, PR firms, lawyers, and it's all just an enormous cabal.
04:38That sounds like a base for one of the two political parties.
04:41A hundred percent.
04:42Yeah.
04:42Well, thank you very much.
04:43We look forward to to this committee working to get the truth to American people and try to get spending under control.
04:50And, you know, we're going to see if these if these executive orders were really authorized by the president or if this was was being done unilaterally by some unnamed bureaucrats.
05:00Madam Chair, thank you for this subcommittee hearing.
05:03I yield back.
05:04The gentleman yields.
05:05And I now recognize Miss Norton from Washington, D.C.
05:10Thank you, Madam Chair.
05:14Today's hearing.