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MAGA Rep. Suggests Ketanji Brown Jackson Could Lose Supreme Court Seat Due To Biden Autopen Usage
Trump ordered all presidential actions by Biden be investigated based on unsubstantiated claims about Biden’s cognitive health during the latter part of his presidency—which could backfire given Trump's own obvious cognitive decline.
Comer—chair of the House Oversight Committee—answered his master's call and decided to investigate the Biden administration’s use of an autopen. Trump also uses the autopen technology.
Modern autopens have been in regular use by United States presidents since Harry S. Truman. The Department of Justice said in a 2005 memo that autopen was a legally valid way for the president to even sign legislation, the most important, far-reaching document a president signs.
It's used most often for repetitive signatures like proclamations or commemorative documents, but has been used for every type of presidential action.
Now Comer has vowed to probe Biden’s judicial appointments for autopen usage. The former Democratic president appointed a record 187 district court judges and 45 appeals court judges to fill vacancies in the federal courts.
Among those appeals court appointments was Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
During a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Comer vowed to "look at everything that was signed with the autopen." He was asked if his probe would include Biden’s judicial appointments.
The MAGA Representative replied:
"Absolutely. Everything that was signed with the autopen, especially in the last year of the Biden presidency... This raises an issue whether these pardons, whether these judicial appointments and whether these executive orders are legal."
"I believe if this investigation goes in the way that it is going, it will raise serious concerns about whether or not Joe Biden even knew what was going on around him, much less whether he authorized the use of his signature."
"I think all of these are in jeopardy of being declared null and void in a court of law and that's a biggie for the Trump Administration."
You can watch the moment here:
Comer didn’t reveal which—if any appointments—were done via autopen nor provide any evidence the autopen’s use was improper.
When Comer posted the Fox interview on his Facebook page, he got hammered in the comments.
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Trump's obsession with the autopen began in March while trying to find a way to bypass the preemptive pardons Biden issued for members of Congress who investigated Trump’s role in the violent coup attempt he incited on January 6, 2021. But Trump's use of autopen and the Department of Justice ruling stymied his efforts to declare the pardons void.
So Trump and his acolytes shifted to claiming Biden was too senile to make his own decisions and his aides ran the White House via autopen.
Biden and those who worked with him, both in and out of the White House, called Trump and his team "liars" and called them out for trying to distract from the Trump administration's many issues and failings.
Biden said to The New York Times:
"I made every decision. Everybody knows how vindictive [Trump] is, so we knew that they’d do what they’re doing now."
"I consciously made all those decisions."
Most of Biden’s former aides have refused to participate in the Trump administration's latest distraction from the Epstein files and Trump's own obvious physical and cognitive decline.
Katy Perry's Butterfly Mishap
Stopping mid-lyric, Perry gripped the prop and looked up at the cables attached to it, then back down at the horrified audience. She raised her hand to signal that she was okay and continued singing her song, like a pro with a roar “louder than lion...”
The frightening moment was captured in fan footage posted by social media user @genesisiap on TikTok:
Luckily, the pop singer regained her balance and was safely lowered back to the stage. And this wasn’t the first time the butterfly ride almost toppled into the audience; the suspended sphere lurched to one side during Perry’s June 29th concert at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Australia.
Last month, Beyonce also had her own mid-air mishap when her flying car's propeller tilted while hanging on cables during her stop in Houston.
You can watch the TikTok from the almost aerial car accident below:
What happened to the good old days of just singing on stage?
In good spirits, Perry shared a photo of her close call on her Instagram Stories and captioned it with:
“GOODNIGHT SAN FRAN”
Poking fun at herself, you can see the blurry post of her shocked face mid-drop here:
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Perry has had a tough summer both on and off the tour, from a fan storming the stage while she sang “Hot n Cold” to her highly publicized breakup with her ex-fiance, Orlando Bloom.
The former couple started dating in 2016 and share a four-year-old daughter named Daisy Dove Bloom. When the news was announced in late June, Perry had an emotional moment as she sang her 2010 hit “The One That Got Away” from her third studio album, Teenage Dream.
A fan captured this emotional moment here:
Hang in there, Katy Perry!
Fans shared their thoughts about all these mid-air mishaps.
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The Lifetimes Tour is Perry’s fifth world tour, kicking off in April in Mexico City and scheduled to conclude on December 7 at Etihad Park in Dubai. The tour has exceeded revenue from her previous Witness: the Tour and has already earned the pop star over $121.5 million worldwide from its 83 shows.
Fingers crossed that the former astronaut keeps her singing at ground level only.
Rosie O'Donnell Recounts Harrowing Experience Helping Save Choking 90-Year-Old Woman In Restaurant
"I'm a hypervigilant person. They say kids who come from trauma-based backgrounds sometimes develop a hypervigilance. And I definitely have that."
"I see a 90-year-old woman chocking... and I jump into action like I'm an EMT, which I'm not."
O'Donnell pointed out what was happening to her friend Kiki, and brought her along to assist. She coached Kiki on the proper hand placement and thrusts before comforting the woman, whose name was Angela.
O'Donnell reflected:
"We stood her up, and I'm holding her hands and talking to her and saying, 'It's okay. It's okay. Can you breathe?'"
"And I put my hand near her, and she could not breathe at all. And she started getting red in the face."
"I yelled, 'Call 911!' while forgetting it's 999 in Dublin. I'm thinking, 'Nobody else is coming to help. Nobody from the hotel or the restaurant.'"
Angela was fine later and was able to return to her table and finish eating her meal with her daughters. O'Donnell remained conflicted about what had happened.
"Sometimes God puts you in the right place at the right time, and you figure out what to do or what to say."
"I don't get it. I really don't. Life is so strange sometimes, isn't it? What you're handed and what you deal with."
You can watch the video here:
Viewers were grateful for how O'Donnell stepped in and helped.
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Others were grateful for the additional information she provided in her video.
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The comedian was clearly shaken up from the event while recounting what happened. She reminded viewers that the international signal for choking is to place one hand at your throat.
If Angela had done that, more people may have come to her aid sooner. Lucky for her, O'Donnell was there and paying attention to her surroundings, which allowed her to catch and assist with the problem before anything worse could happen.
