DOJ Refuses to Drop Biden Autopen Scandal Despite White House Stonewalling

The Department of Justice is still actively investigating Joe Biden’s suspicious autopen abuse—and the case centers on a constitutional crisis that should alarm every American who values the rule of law.

A senior DOJ official confirmed Thursday that investigators haven’t abandoned the probe into Biden’s mechanical signing device, contradicting earlier reports that attempted to bury this scandal. The investigation focuses squarely on whether unelected White House staffers wielded presidential pardon power while Biden’s cognitive abilities deteriorated.

The Cover-Up Unravels

This isn’t some minor administrative oversight. Federal investigators are examining whether Biden’s inner circle illegally exercised the president’s constitutional authority to grant clemency while he was mentally unfit to serve.

DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro emphatically pushed back against premature burial of the case, posting on X: “We cannot comment on ongoing investigations.” That statement speaks volumes about active investigative threads still being pursued.

The facts are damning. Biden’s administration deployed the autopen for sweeping pardons and commutations affecting thousands of inmates during his final months in office—precisely when his mental decline became undeniable to anyone paying attention.

Nobody Can Answer the Simple Question

Here’s where this gets truly disturbing: When House Oversight Committee investigators demanded to know who controlled the autopen during Biden’s final months, former White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients couldn’t—or wouldn’t—name the person responsible for operating the device.

Think about that. The mechanism that carried the legal weight of presidential clemency was under someone’s control, and the chief of staff claims he doesn’t know whose hands were on it.

Zients offered only vague assurances about “good processes” and “verbal authorizations” of presidential decisions occurring “on occasion.” That’s bureaucratic double-speak for “we can’t tell you the truth.”

Presidential Power in Unauthorized Hands

The constitutional implications are staggering. Nearly 2,500 inmates convicted of crack cocaine crimes received commuted sentences. Dozens more obtained clemency for nonviolent crimes. The autopen kept churning out Biden’s signature on executive orders and acts of clemency.

But was Biden actually making those decisions? Or were unelected staffers running the show while propping up a cognitively declining president?

The DOJ official acknowledged that “statutes apply in this case” but noted the difficulty in proving illegal acts when dealing with “pardoning whole categories of crime.” Translation: Biden’s handlers knew exactly how to exploit the president’s broad clemency powers to shield their actions from prosecution.

The January 19th Bombshell

Perhaps most explosive: Zients personally approved last-minute pardons for Biden family members on January 19, 2025—Biden’s final day in office. The chief of staff—not the president—gave the green light on pardons protecting the Biden clan.

That revelation alone demolishes any pretense that Joe Biden maintained control over his constitutional responsibilities.

The Fifth Amendment Brigade

When congressional investigators closed in on the truth, three key Biden aides suddenly developed amnesia. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s personal physician who repeatedly lied about the president’s fitness, refused to testify. So did Annie Tomasini, deputy chief of staff, and Anthony Bernal, the notorious first lady’s chief of staff with a reputation for bullying and intimidation.

All three invoked their Fifth Amendment rights rather than answer questions under oath. Innocent people don’t take the Fifth. People hiding crimes do.

Biden’s Laughable Denial

Last June, Biden issued a statement claiming: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

Nobody believes that. The American people watched Biden shuffle through his presidency, unable to complete coherent sentences, reading instructions off teleprompters telling him where to sit, getting lost on stages, and shaking hands with invisible people.

The House Oversight Committee’s final report demolished Biden’s denial, concluding that it remains “unclear whether these Biden aides were attempting to be deceptively euphemistic about President Biden’s cognitive decline, or whether they had so deceived themselves that they actually believed” Americans couldn’t see the obvious truth.

The Legal Tightrope

Prosecutors face significant obstacles. The Supreme Court’s 2024 immunity ruling protects former presidents from prosecution for official acts. The pardon power itself has never been curtailed by Congress or restricted by court decisions.

But those legal shields don’t extend to unelected staffers who may have usurped presidential authority. If White House aides were making clemency decisions and signing Biden’s name—literally or through the autopen—without his meaningful input or understanding, that’s potentially criminal conspiracy.

Why This Matters

This investigation strikes at the heart of constitutional governance. The Framers vested specific powers in the presidency, not in anonymous White House staffers operating behind the scenes.

If Biden’s inner circle ran the executive branch while covering up his incapacity, they didn’t just deceive the American people—they staged a constitutional coup. They exercised powers they had no legal right to wield.

The Oversight Committee report states plainly: “Even if this authority over the autopen could be delegated—which it cannot—it would have to be expressly delegated by President Biden himself.”

There’s no evidence Biden expressly delegated anything. There’s overwhelming evidence he was incapable of understanding what needed delegating.

Justice Must Prevail

The DOJ’s continuation of this investigation represents a critical test of whether anyone is truly above the law. Democrats spent years shrieking about threats to democracy while propping up a cognitively impaired president and allowing unelected bureaucrats to exercise constitutional powers.

The American people deserve answers. Who really ran the executive branch during Biden’s decline? Who made the decisions? Who controlled the autopen? And most importantly, who should face criminal charges for usurping presidential authority?

This investigation must continue until every question is answered and every responsible party is held accountable. Anything less makes a mockery of constitutional government and the rule of law.

The facts already uncovered are damning. The refusal of key witnesses to testify reeks of guilt. And the American people are owed the full truth about who was really in charge while Joe Biden’s presidency became an elaborate charade.