Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich believes President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen could become the “biggest scandal in American history,” according to a Fox News report.
The revelation came on Lara Trump’s Fox News show “My View.”
"The reason is, sometimes, I'd think it's probably in 2023… Joe Biden was no longer there,” Gingrich said. “And that means that other people were exercising the power of the presidency without any constitutional limitations, and I really think the key is not to look at Biden, but to look at the various Obama people who had infiltrated that system."
"The one I find the most interesting is that on one day after the election, he commuted 2,400 people. Now, you know he didn't have a clue.” The former House Speaker added, “Somebody was running the autopen. Somebody was giving them instructions and somebody was making deals somewhere. That's just a tiny example of how bad it was."
Fox paraphrased Gingrich on its website, writing, “The backdrop of the ordeal was the decay of the president and the use of his identity as a front for the decisions that may have happened at the hands of some members of his administration behind the scenes.”
Gingrich called this "elder abuse."
President Donald Trump has called for a probe of Biden’s use of the autopen — a tool which Trump himself has used — and he believes many of the documents signed by his predecessor using the device are invalid.
Biden, for his part, denies the allegations and has publicly condemned the probe.
"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," Biden said.
In the statement, Biden later added, "This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans who are working to push disastrous legislation that would cut essential programs like Medicaid and raise costs on American families, all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations."