June 24, 2025 – Ex-Biden aide Neera Tanden tells Oversight Committee she was authorized to use autopen

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Trump’s White House counsel sent a letter to Biden aide Neera Tanden this morning, as she appears before the House Oversight Committee amid a probe into Biden’s mental fitness as president — The letter argues that asserting executive privilege is “not justified” because of the nature of the allegations.

“The President authorizes you to provide unrestricted testimony to the House Oversight Committee, irrespective of potential privilege.”

Washington Examiner, 6/24/2025

A top former aide to former President Joe Biden testified behind closed doors Tuesday for more than four hours as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into his mental fitness to serve and his White House’s use of an autopen, confirming she was authorized to use the automatic signature device while pushing back on concerns about alleged manipulation or malfeasance.

Neera Tanden, who served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, explained in her opening remarks Tuesday that she was given authority to wield the autopen. She said she “was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president” and was authorized to direct autopen use from October 2021 to May 2023 when she was serving as staff secretary and senior adviser to Biden.

Ex-Biden Aide Neera Tanden Admits Under Oath to House Oversight Committee That She Controlled Joe Biden’s Autopen

UPDATE 6/26/2025

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:

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:

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 6/25/2025)