Biden's autopen went nuclear while the media pretends otherwise

The Biden autopen scandal just went nuclear, and the media is pretending it's no big deal because Orange Man Bad did something about it. But let's be real here.

Donald Trump just dropped the hammer on Friday: every single document Joe Biden allegedly "signed" with that little robot pen in his final days has been terminated. And suddenly that Axios report from September that everybody memory-holed is back from the dead, because now there are actual consequences.

Kayleigh McEnany absolutely torched it on Saturday, pointing out the obvious: yeah, every president uses an autopen sometimes. That's not the issue. The issue is when your own staff secretary is basically screaming into the void, "Wait, did the vegetable in the Oval Office actually approve this or are we just making it up now?"

Marc Thiessen, who actually having worked in a real White House under George W. Bush, laid it out perfectly: "Bush didn't want to have any doubts about things. So I remember once there was a continuing resolution to keep the government open, and he was at the APEC summit out in Asia, and they actually took an aide and flew the bill out to Asia so that he could physically sign the bill. So, you know, that's how seriously [Bush] took this."

Compare that to Biden World, where the staff secretary, Stef Feldman, is frantically emailing: "When did we get [Biden's] approval of this?"

And then two weeks later: "I'm going to need email from... original chain confirming [Biden] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready."

Translation: Nobody knew if Joe even understood what planet he was on, much less what he was "signing."

Thiessen didn’t hold back: "The staff secretary clearly had concerns about this and was aware of it and wasn't sure that Biden was actually issuing these orders… And so, you know, the pardon is a power of the president himself. And to have pardons signed by autopen when the people running the autopen weren't even sure the president had agreed to pardon somebody, that's pretty bad stuff."

"Pretty bad stuff" is putting it mildly. We're talking about a guy who was clearly non compos mentis (Thiessen's exact Latin, because even he couldn’t find an English phrase gentle enough) having his name stamped on record-setting numbers of pardons and commutations while his handlers ran around in a post-Hunter-pardon "mad dash" to find random people to let off the hook without even looping in DOJ.

And now Trump says none of those autopen "signatures" count anymore.The same people who spent four years telling us January 6th invalidated the entire 2016 election are about to discover the sacred sanctity of the autopen. 

I can't wait for the meltdown.

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Duterte admits to killing someone when he was sweet 16

Danang ("The Nam") -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted to throwing drug dealers out of flying  helicopters to teach them a lesson they'll never forget. He has sent his henchmen to search and destroy both drug users and pushers. Thousands have been slaughtered by this maniac.

Now, in a defiant speech, in the local Filipino community in Danang, Duterte said that he stabbed a person to death when he was a teenager. He also threatened in that speech, to slap a UN rights reporter if he met her and used vulgarity to attack his critics of his frenetic drug crackdown. Duterte is in Danang for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

"When I  was a teenager, I would go in and out of jail. I'd have rumbles here, rumbles there," the puffy-eyed lunatic said.

"At the age of 16, I already killed someone. A real person, a rumble, a stabbing. I was just 16 years old. It was just over a look. How much more now that I am president?"

Proving that Filipinos who voted for him are just as crazy as he is.

Duterte won the election last year after promising to completely eradicate illicit drugs. His crackdown has already seen up to 100,000 people murdered.

Technically, since he took office 16 months ago, police say they've killed 3,967 people and another 2,290 were murdered in drug-related crimes. But thousands of other deaths remain unsolved, according to Duterte's government data.

Duterte, 72 with a matching IQ, is still popular with Filipinos. His critics warn that he's orchestrating a campaign of illegal mass murder perpetrated by corrupt police.

President Trump believes that Duterte was "kidding" when he admitted to killing someone when he was 16. 

Very funny.



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Trump-Putin reached out and touched each other

Danang, 'The Nam' -- President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin reached out and touched each other at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit dinner in Vietnam on Friday. 

The White House previously said that there would be no formal meeting, but this was a 'nice' meeting with smiles abound. Photos were taken as they stood next to each other and then they sat at different parts of the table.

The reason that no formal meetings were planned was due to scheduling conflicts for both leaders.

"In terms of a scheduled, formal meeting, there's not one on the calendar and we don't anticipate that there will be one," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters just before landing in Danang.

This is President Trump's fourth leg of his 12-day tour of Asia.

I suspect Danang has changed quite a bit since I visited back in 1967.



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