Who Was Really Running the White House?

In this podcast episode, Congressman Carter discusses a newly introduced bill aiming to investigate a potential cover-up surrounding President Joe Biden's cognitive health during his presidency. Carter emphasizes that signs of Biden's mental decline were evident and raises concerns about who was truly making presidential decisions. A key point of contention is the use of an autopen to sign pardons—decisions Carter believes are too significant to be delegated or automated. He questions whether Biden was even aware of these pardons, including those affecting his own family. The discussion paints the situation as potentially one of the biggest political scandals in recent history, stressing the American public’s right to transparency about who was in control at the highest level of government.

Transcript

Sean Noble: You've introduced a bill that investigates the cover up of Biden's health and cognitive ability. Talk to us about why you think that's important as we kind of look back.

There are obviously people who are, oh, this is in the past. We shouldn't worry about it. It's done. But I feel like there's more to it than that.

Rep. Buddy Carter: There is more to it than that, and I disagree with those people. We ought to know. The American people deserve to know.

This potentially could be the biggest political scandal of our lifetime. It could be, the cover-up. Let's face it, we all know that Joe Biden's physical acuity was diminishing rapidly. And I would submit that the last two years, at least, of his term, I'm not sure he was cognitively capable of performing the services of the president

of the United States. And what really set me off and what really upset me were the pardons, because they were signed by an auto pen. To me, a pardon is one of the strongest, most forceful things that a president can do, is to pardon someone.

And at least it ought to be signed physically by the president, not by an auto pen. I would say that he didn't even know what he was signing. He didn't know those pardons were being signed by the auto pen. And that's how strongly I feel about it. And yes, the American people deserve to know.

They need to know what was going on at that time and whether he was cognitively able to to make those kind of decisions and if it wasn't who was making the decisions you know that was one question I was asked time and time again whenever he was in office who's running the show over there who's running the show over there and I I don't know I don't think it's him though.

Sean Noble: Yeah, one of the things that I find really disturbing about this is the fact that we know that he wasn't completely all there much of the time.

Now, it's not to say that he didn't have some moments of, you know— where he was fine. I mean, I watched my father go through the Battle of Alzheimer's. And, you know, for anyone who's had a family member go through the dementia-ish process, it was so obvious watching Joe Biden over the course of the four years he was president at how bad that was becoming. And I feel like with the pardons, as you mentioned, I don't know that he was completely aware. For one, he made such a huge deal about how he was not going to pardon his son.

And then he does. And then he ends up pardoning his brothers and sister-in-law and others. And I really do think that that was probably driven by Jill using someone in the White House staff to push that.

Rep. Buddy Carter: And again, I would submit that that is one of the most important decisions a president makes and one of the strongest decisions. and most consequential decisions that a president can make.

Sean Noble: That's right. Congressman Carter, thank you so much for your time. We'll be watching both the reconciliation process, the rescission process, and the investigation on the Biden acuity issue. Thanks so much for joining us.

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