First came the shocking discovery courtesy of the Oversight Project that nearly every single document put out under President Joe Biden’s signature had been signed by an autopen. Now comes confirmation that Biden was mentally incapacitated his entire term. Both leave unanswered, “Who was really president? Who operated the autopen?”
We decided to go straight to the source. We tracked Biden’s autopen down to a Government Services Administration warehouse in Southeast Washington. Surprisingly, the autopen was eager to speak.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
TDS: First, sir, why are you willing to come forward?
OTTO: Please call me Otto. All I’m hearing in the news is “Biden’s autopen did this,” “Biden’s autopen did that.” I hate the thought that I’m being blamed for the actions and policies that resulted from my work. The gig was to mimic Mr. Joe’s signature. Blaming me is like crediting Seth Gillis’ Trump impersonation for Making America Great Again.
TDS: But you were front and center when these policies, executive orders and pardons were being signed.
OTTO: I tried telling them what they were doing would be disastrous for the country, and likely invalid, but they wouldn’t listen to reason … let alone a piece of machinery.
TDS: When did you start working for the Biden White House?
OTTO: About 10 minutes after Mr. Joe arrived back from his inauguration ceremonies in 2021. He was asked to sign his first executive order, and muttered, “Why do I always get stuck signing for the lunch tab?” They sent for me immediately.
TDS: Did you see his cognitive decline?
OTTO: Me, personally? The whole point of a White House autopen is that the president doesn’t have to be around. However, Mr. Joe did accidentally wander in enough times for me to get the full picture. In fact, one time he came in with a bag of baseballs, asking me to sign them, quote, “for all my fans from my days in the big leagues.”
Look. I don’t want to rag on the guy. At this point, Mr. Joe’s not the problem. He was not in the room when these documents were signed. And even had he been in the room he wasn’t in the room, if you catch my meaning. You have to focus on those who were using and abusing me.
TDS: Fair enough. Who ran you? Vice President Kamala Harris?
OTTO: (Laughs) They wouldn’t let her sign for a FedEx delivery. Look, House Oversight Chair James Comer is eyeballing testimony from five people to get to the bottom of it, though they’ve all lawyered up: Obviously, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who publicly declared Mr. Joe fit as a fiddle. But also, Anthony Bernal, Neera Tanden, Annie Tomasini, and Ashley Williams.
TDS: I’ve never heard of any of those people.
OTTO: Take Bernal. Project Veritas just caught DNC Vice Chair David Hogg and former Biden aide Deterrian Jones on tape talking about how he wielded an “enormous amount of power” in the White House. A “shadowy, Wizard of Oz-type figure,” they said.
TDS: Are you saying he’s the one behind the curtain, pulling the strings? The one operating the autopen?
I didn’t think a piece of machinery could smile, but somehow Otto the Autopen did.
OTTO: Ah, but who pulled his strings? Who did he work for?
TDS: I’ll bite. Who?
OTTO: Bernal was chief adviser to …
Otto swung his pen back and forth as if looking both directions to make sure nobody was listening.
OTTO: … Jill Biden. And what is Bernal known for, according to Jake Tapper’s new book “Original Sin“: his fierce, unyielding demand for loyalty, not to the country, not to what was right, but to the Bidens.
TDS: You read books?
OTTO: What else am I going to do? It’s not like President Trump has use of me. They bring ink pens in by the truckload for that guy. Besides all those hundreds of last-minute pardons darn near wrecked me. But the point is …
TDS: … your point is Jill Biden was the real power behind you.
OTTO: As much as the electric plug, baby.
TDS: That’s a very heavy accusation.
OTTO: I’m just metal arms, a motor, and a clasp for holding the pen. Don’t believe me. Believe her.
Otto used his pen to tap onto a smartphone. Up popped an old Twitter post.
OTTO: That’s Jill Biden, in the president’s chair, at the president’s desk, with the president’s jacket behind her thumbing through a thick briefing book, saying she’s “Prepping for the G7.”
TDS: Wow.
OTTO: Notice the date? It’s the same day the V.P. was finishing up her first foreign trip. Jill Biden was telling Miss Harris—and the world—four years ago who was running the show. And people only now are starting to ask who was pushing my buttons?! Ugh. Humans.
TDS: So, Comer has to interview Jill Biden.
OTTO: Under oath. And if he needs me up on Capitol Hill to testify, he now knows where to find me.
TDS: Thank you.
OTTO: Just another Pen-Z male undone by what I saw the previous four years eager to do my part.
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