And yet we heard from White House aid near A Tannan reportedly testifying she had no idea who in Biden's inner circle gave her permission to use the autopen. If there is this underlying plot to hide Biden's mental condition so that others could arrogate his power in that way, that's a conspiracy crime. So it's no wonder two people who already taken the fifth.
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Good Thursday morning. It's so nice to have you with us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got some really big breaking news. Representative James Comer now explaining exactly what's at stake in the investigation to Biden's autopen use. And yes, the White House is now opening an investigation into that autopen, who was using it and did Joe Biden even know it was happening. Also, you may have heard the big lie Democrats saying that illegal immigrants are
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Story number one.
It is official. The White House now confirming they are opening the autopen Biden investigation. Yes, you can smile. We may actually get some answers about just how bad the cognitive decline of Joe Biden was and who was actually running the White House. It was clearly an auto pen, and somebody was directing that autopen to do things and sign things and give out pardons, and it wasn't the
sitting President Joe Biden. The White House Council's Office has officially opened this investigation on former President Joe Biden's White House abuse of the presidential autopen to sign those pardons, executive orders, and other laws and actions, potentially without the former president's knowledge. This is, in my opinion, one of
the biggest political scandals in all of American history. Sources confirming the opening of the investigation within the Trump White House and the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt issued a statement that the administration is quote committed to finding the answers. Joe Biden was the worst, the most incompetent, and se now president in our country's history, is what Caroline Levitt wrote in a statement responding to the press request for
a comment. It has been widely reported that Joe Biden handed the power of the presidency to an auto pen that was controlled by unelected leftist staffers who were allowed to make terrible decisions that destroyed our country. Trump White House is committed to finding the answers to many outstanding questions the American people still have about how business in the Biden White House was conducted. Levitt's statement added President Trump also had something to say at the White House
in an unrelated sitting in the Oval Office. Here's what he had to say about this scandal as well.
Whoever operated the autopen had a policy which is by the way, I think the biggest scandal, that's the scandal should be talking about, not Jeffrey Epstein. The scandle you should be talking about is the AUTOPEN, because I think it's the biggest scandal, one of them in American history.
Now, let's talk about what the investigation is going to look like. I'm being told that this investigation will include the review of tens of thousands of documents turned over to the National Archives as well as Records Administration, and those documents, as The New York Times first reported early over the weekend, will potentially provide direct evidence of whether Biden was aware of the actions that were being signed
by the AUTOPEN that would be his signature. Now, Biden potentially absolved as senior officials that acted on his behalf by autopen by telling The Times in a blanket statement that could whitewash complicity, saying, quote, I conscientiously made all those decisions, is what Biden's staff said to The Times. I made every decision quote unquote is Biden's quote. Now, the American people, you can decide to believe Joe Biden.
But I think it's pretty clear that White House is not going to take the former president at his word. Which brings me to another story, a very important one as well. There's a guy by the name of Anthony Bernal. He is the former chief of staff for the First Lady Joe Biden often dubbed her work husband. He was before Congress and invoked his Fifth Amendment right during a
deposition by the House Oversite Committee. Fact he refused to answer any questions related President Joe Biden's cognitive fitness, whether he was ever asked to lie about the president's health or about the use of the presidential auto pen. Now he is the second former aide to do so, following
the president's physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor. Oversight Committee chairman James Comer emphasized the seriousness of this refusal, saying it raises concern barns that unelected staff may have assumed presidential level decision making responsibilities. Now, doctor Kevin O'Connor, who also pled the fifth Biden's longtime White House physician, invoked it the same way at a closed door deposition before the same committee.
The committee pressed him on whether he was ever instructed to misrepresent Biden's health or believe the president to be unfit to serve. He would not answer that question. Now, Republicans have obviously highlighted this as an extraordinary cover up and suggestive of a concealed cover up that was planned by top level people in the White House. The Democrats would have been involved, and the doctor's legal team stress that exercising the right does not imply wrongdoing. It simply
protects self incrimination. So here's the bigger picture. The House Oversight Committee, led by James Comer, is actively investigating the allegations that Biden's health issues were so secretive, we're so concealed that aids may have used the autopen to sign official documents, possibly circumventing presidential authority, and they may have signed documents that Joe Biden never intended to sign, didn't even know existed and invoke policy decisions that he didn't
even know about. Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat from Texas, a Committee Democrat, has defended President Biden, asserting that occasional verbal missteps are not quote, evidence of cognitive failure. The investigation into Biden's cognitive fitness and potential misuse of the autopen is clearly intensifying, with Bernald and O'Connor both invoking their
Fifth Amendment rights. House Republicans view this as evidence of internal concealment, while Democrats are maintaining the lie, saying this is no big deal at all and it doesn't prove any wrongdoing. Now, at the end of the day, this is going to come down to what the White House finds, what they see in the records, and I wouldn't be shocked to see more people vote to fit the amendment so they don't incriminate themselves or lie under oath to Congress.
Now, story number two, there has.
Been a question that many Republicans have been asking how many illegal immigrants are actually receiving access to Medicaid benefits. Now, if you ask the Democratic Party, they will tell you that there isn't a single illegal immigrant that is receiving Medicaid benefits Insert a brilliant move by Texas Representative Wesley Hunt.
He's now demanding data from the New York governor over how many of the states estimated six hundred and seventy thousand legal immigrants are actually receiving access to those Medicaid
benefits that Democrats say, well, it's not happening at all. Hunt, a Republican, decided to just straight up ask the question directly to the governor on Monday, raising questions about how the Empire State has leveraged waivers to actually allow its Medicaid program to oper differently from federal standards and mandates. Governor Hochel is required to report this information to the
federal government. So the question is simple, will she comply or containue to harbor lawbreakers while putting the healthcare of law abiding citizens at risk? Hunt said in his statement to the New York Posts. This is what democratic leadership looks like, open borders, benefits for illegal aliens, and betrayal of the people they're supposed to be representing. The American people. Now, there is an estimated one point four million people quote
whose citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory. Immigration status is not quote verified, and they are potentially being covered by Medicaid programs in various states that coming now from the Congressional Budget Office. I'll have more on that in a moment. But one study from the liberal leaning Fists Policy Institute, cited by Congressman Hunt, found that there are some six hundred and seventy thousand illegal immigrants in the Empire State. In fact,
it is now about five percent of the population. New York has benefited from Section one one one five waivers, which allows it to experiment and deviate from federal standards in its implementation of Medicaid, a program that provides health insurance to seventy million low income Americans, and now the
question is how many illegals. A spokesperson for the governor quickly fired back a Congressman Hunt and argued that he should have focused on opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act over its Medicaid reforms instead of targeting New York, saying this, if Representative Hunt were truly concerned about the health and well being of his constituents, he should have directed his focus to voting against the ugly bill, which will invoke irreparable damage to Medicaid programs nationwide, including in
his home state of Texas. Yet again, you may notice that the spokesperson for the governor did not answer the question how many illegal immigrants are receiving benefits? This is just another pitiful attempt. The governor's office went on to say to divert attention from Republican actions to eliminate healthcare for one point five million New Yorkers and deny food
security access to millions of seniors and children. You'll notice in that statement, yet again the governor New York refusing to answer the question how many illegal immigrants are taking government benefits. Now, state officials have told the New York Post that, quote, most undocumented individuals are not eligible for full medicaid coverage. Now notice the words they used, most undocumented individuals are not eligible for quote full medicaid coverage.
By the way, that statement would also be true for most American citizens are not eligible for full Medicaid coverage, and that the small group that is enrolled in the state's program has not benefited they claim from federal dollars. Now, New York also claimed that spending was unrelated to the one one one five waivers. Well then, why would the Governor New York not answer this simple question that was
put to her by Wesley Hunt. Now. Hunt noted that the Biden administration had rejected the use of those waivers for states like South Carolina, Arizona, and other states. The Texas Republican stress that the waivers were not intended to allow illegal immigrants to benefit American tax dollars going for
their healthcare coverage. Now, the Biden administration allowed and even encouraged the use of these one one, one five waivers to extend Medicaid to undocumented immigrants, something that Democrats are now never happened and despite federal law actually prohibiting them from receiving these benefits, Hunt wrote in a letter to
Hochel on Monday. Now. Back in February, President Trump also signed an executive order the Director's Administration to ensure and a maximum extent possible, that quote no taxpayer funded benefits go to unqualified aliens. That order pointed to existing law, such as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of nineteen ninety six, which generally blocks illegal immigrants from
getting federal benefits from taxpayers. The Texas Republican also cited concerns about New York's green light law, which permits all state residents, regardless of immigration status, to get driver's licenses. Now the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against that law,
arguing that a handstring's federal enforcement of immigration law. Hunt argued it can help illegal immigrants get access to tax payer funded BIS benefits using the driver's license to gain that access, and to address these concerns, Hunt now demanded that HOCHE will conduct a review of its Medicaid enrollment base on Social Security numbers and release those findings to the public, saying this New Yorkers deserve transparency, accountability, and
adherence to law in the administration of public health programs. Policies to divert limited resources away from lawful recipients American citizens not only violates federal standards, they also destroy public trust and threaten the sustainability of programs designed to serve our most vulnerable American citizens.
Now.
Hunt has also drawn speculation over recent weeks that he may vie for Senator John Cornyn's seat in the Senate in Texas in the twenty twenty six midterms, and this could very well be one of those points that he would campaign on. Now, let me say one other thing about this. We deserve answers. The American people, as taxpayers, deserve to know where their money is going and if it is being diverted to six hundred and seventy thousand illegal immigrants in the Empire state, Yes, about four and
a half percent of its population. One other thing that I think is also a point that needs to be made. You notice that Democrats did not deny in any of the statements coming from the governor's office that illegal immigrants are receiving benefits, and they word it carefully to say, well, some may, but most aren't, and most aren't receiving full benefits. Well, that also goes for the same with the Americans's in
base that are eligible for Medicaid benefits as well. It is supposed to help the weakest, the least, the poorest, and those that are the most in need. Yet many Americans do not qualify for full benefits. So why are we giving those benefits to illegal immigrants? That's the question every American should be asking.
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