A top White House aide, utterly unelected and unknown to most of the country, had the authority to affix the President’s signature to official documents, including sweeping executive orders and controversial pardons, all while the nation was led to believe these were the deliberate actions of the commander-in-chief himself.
“As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president,” she testified. “I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents."
Note that the statement said to come from Biden to excuse this was
“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,” a statement attributed to Joe Biden claimed earlier this month in response to the congressional investigation, and dismissing the investigation as a distraction by Trump and Republicans.
'Attributed to' does not mean "He said it to a reporter". So did he actually, or not?
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Neena testified that in some cases she was unsure if she had authorization.
Translated into plain English, this means she did not have authorization. The required authorization could come from only one person, that being the (in this case, supposed) president.
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