I think we’re on safe ground to say that we now know former President Joe Biden was not in any sort of fit mental state during his final year in office, and likely long before that. This is beyond dispute.
On Friday, we had the audio from Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur leak; if you haven’t listened to it, it’s devastating, since it depicts a man much farther gone mentally than the transcripts of the interview did, and the transcripts were already bad.
On Tuesday, the most thorough look into Biden’s mental deterioration — “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson — was released, confirming that even before his 2020 presidential run, serious questions about his mental capacity existed, and an inner circle of trusted staffers not only protected him but effectively made important decisions for him.
This all raises the question, then: What about everything signed with the autopen — the electronic device used to affix the president’s signature to documents he’s approved but will not personally put his John Hancock on — during the final years of Biden’s presidency?
Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett would certainly like some answers about that, particularly health.