Biden insists 'I made the decisions' as Republicans investigate White House autopen use

Former President Joe Biden doubled down connected his usage of an autopen connected Wednesday, insisting that helium was successful power of the White House during his word successful office.

President Donald Trump ordered an probe into Biden's administration, alleging that apical officials utilized autopen signatures to screen up the erstwhile president's cognitive decline.

"I made the decisions astir the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any proposition that I didn’t is ridiculous and false," Biden said successful a statement.

"This is thing much than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans who are moving to propulsion disastrous authorities that would chopped indispensable programs similar Medicaid and rise costs connected American families, each to wage for taxation breaks for the ultra-wealthy and large corporations," helium added.

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President Joe Biden defended his administration's usage of autopen signatures and insisted helium was successful power of his White House connected Wednesday. (Nicole Neri/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump called connected Attorney General Pam Bondi to unfastened investigations into apical Biden officials connected Wednesday, arguing they whitethorn person conspired to deceive the nationalist astir his intelligence authorities and exercised statesmanlike authorization done the autopen use.

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Trump wrote successful a Wednesday memo that the U.S. president has a tremendous magnitude of powerfulness and work done his signature. Not lone tin the signature crook words into laws of the land, but it besides appoints individuals to immoderate of the highest positions successful government, creates oregon eliminates nationalist policies and allows prisoners to spell free.

President Donald Trump pointed to the powerfulness a U.S. president tin wield with his signature alone. (GETTY IMAGES)

"In caller months, it has go progressively evident that erstwhile President Biden's aides abused the powerfulness of Presidential signatures done the usage of an autopen to conceal Biden's cognitive diminution and asseverate Article II authority," Trump wrote. "This conspiracy marks 1 of the astir unsafe and concerning scandals successful American history. The American nationalist was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the enforcement power, each portion Biden's signature was deployed crossed thousands of documents to effect extremist argumentation shifts."

"Given wide indications that President Biden lacked the capableness to workout his Presidential authority, if his advisors secretly utilized the mechanical signature pen to conceal this incapacity, portion taking extremist enforcement actions each successful his name, that would represent an unconstitutional wielding of the powerfulness of the Presidency, a condition that would person implications for the legality and validity of galore enforcement actions undertaken successful Biden's name," helium added.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., (Right) is demanding 3 high-ranking staffers successful erstwhile President Joe Biden’s White House look for transcribed interviews connected their suspected roles moving "behind the scenes" to "cover-up" the erstwhile president’s important intelligence diminution during his term. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, launched an probe earlier past period aimed astatine determining whether Biden, who was successful declining wellness during the last months of his presidency, was mentally acceptable to authorize the usage of the autopen. Comer said past week helium was "open" to dragging Biden earlier the House to reply questions astir the substance if necessary. 

Fox News' Greg Wehner contributed to this report