Energy group says Biden had no knowledge of climate change EOs, doubt validity of autopen use

A pro-energy group scrutinized eight of former President Joe Biden's executive orders which pertained to climate and energy issues, but their research found no evidence that Biden ever spoke publicly about the contents of the climate change-oriented EOs. The group also asserts that the signatures on the EOs match Biden's autopen signature instead of his genuine signature, thus calling into question whether the president ever knew about the executive orders. 

Power the Future, the organization who examined the orders, is now urging investigations from multiple bodies to determine if Biden knew of the executive orders and, if not, who did, and what course of action should be taken next. 

No evidence Biden knew about the EO's signed with his name

Daniel Turner, the founder and executive director of Power the Future, spoke to the Furthermore with Amanda Head podcast and said, "The curious thing about these executive orders is that we found no evidence at all that the President spoke of them on the record. He wasn't asked a question by the media. He wasn't stopped on Air Force One. He didn't give a speech about it."

"There's no evidence that the president was cognizant that this was done, that he directed it, that he was part of the decision. There was never any follow-up," Turner continued. "The only evidence we have that the President signed it is the autopen signature and then some little statement on social media."

Turner said that his organization highlighted these specific orders because of their scope, how much damage they did to the energy industry and, by extension, to the overall economy and national security.

Power the Future sent their findings to multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, along with the House and Senate Oversight Committees. 

Among the most critical of Biden's executive actions on climate and energy include an Inauguration Day executive order in 2021 committing the federal government to net-zero emissions by 2050, a 2023 order banning arctic drilling, and an order requiring "clean energy" artificial intelligence centers, and a last-minute offshore drilling ban shortly before leaving office in 2025. 

Media enablers ran cover for Biden

Turner also expressed his concern about the now-exposed media cover-up of Biden's mental faculties as it relates to these executive orders. 

"The media was very complicit. And now we find out, because of all of these books and all the staffers that are leaking, we find out that Biden wasn't aware of most things. And so our question is, who directed these decisions, and if the president didn't direct them, which I don't believe he did, they're completely null and void. And people need to go to jail for impersonating the president, because that's really what they did. They impersonated the president."

While Republicans and independent voters have questioned Biden's mental abilities since the beginning of his presidency, most conversations regarding these concerns rose above mere gossip with Special Counsel Robert Hur's 2024 report that Biden's memory was "fuzzy," "faulty," and had "significant limitations" and then declined to prosecute Biden on the basis that a jury would not likely convict a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." Four months later in June 2024, Biden's debate performance placed these concerns center-stage when he mumbled and fumbled through answers and often stared emptily into space. 

For years, colleagues, staffers, Biden family members and an ever-loyal news media denied that there were any cognition issues. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough in 2024 famously said of Biden that "I think he’s better than he’s ever been intellectually, analytically, because he’s been around for 50 years [...] This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.” 

Even after Biden's disastrous confusion and rambling during his debate a few months later, former President Barack Obama tried to marginalize the impact of Biden's self-immolation by tweeting that "Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know." 

However, a number of these former defenders have now become critics of his mental cognition, most notably Jake Tapper, who once repeatedly dismissed concerns about Biden's mental capacity. Tapper is on a media tour promoting his co-authored book titled "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again."