Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha saw a deeper meaning in President Donald Trump’s “ultimate troll” of former President Joe Biden by placing a photograph of the autopen where Biden’s portrait was meant to hang.
“This is the ultimate troll from Trump again,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First on Thursday. “But it’s also a reminder that we should never forget what happened during the Biden era.
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Concha went on to reference the record Biden set in presidential pardons, commutations, and clemencies which affected over 4,200 people.
“The open question is: who or how many were behind those thousands of pardons as Biden was making exit stage left? I think that’s what a lot of people want to know,” Concha said.
“This, by going back in the news cycle, is a reminder of the 46th president, which was a failure by all accounts based on the fact that Donald Trump won — got back in office as dominantly as he did,” Concha added.
Biden’s autopen portrait hangs in the Presidential Walk of Fame in the White House’s West Wing, where the presidential portraits of all of Trump’s predecessors are also on display.
Meanwhile, the House Oversight Committee is actively investigating the implementation of the autopen during Biden’s term. The latest to testify to the committee was former White House chief of staff Jeff Zients. During a closed-door interview, Zients said Biden’s “decision-making slowed” during the final phase of his presidency.
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After leaving office, Biden confirmed that he had authorized the autopen, a machine that allows anyone to duplicate the signature of the commander in chief on official documents, due to the large number of clemencies he issued.
However, Biden dismissed the House Oversight Committee’s investigation as “crazy” and claimed all Republican lawmakers who were questioning his cognitive decline were “liars.”