NBC Nightly Information was the one legacy media night newscast to air an merchandise on the investigation into using the autopen throughout the Biden Administration. However, in what might be an early signal of what to anticipate within the Tom Llamas Period, the aim of the report was to firefight the allegations fairly than air them.
Watch the report in its entirety (click on “develop” to view full transcript):
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
6/5/25
6:36 PM
TOM LLAMAS: President Trump additionally asserting an inquiry to his predecessor’s use of an autopen. However when pressed at the moment, he acknowledged he has no proof paperwork have been signed with out President Biden’s information, or of something unlawful. Right here’s Gabe Gutierrez.
GABE GUTIERREZ: Tonight, President Trump is ordering a large ranging inquiry into former President Biden and his administration, accusing Biden’s aides of utilizing autopen signatures to cowl up his cognitive decline.
DONALD TRUMP: The largest scandal of the final a few years is the autopen and who’s utilizing it.
GUTIERREZ: Presidents from Barack Obama to John F. Kennedy to Thomas Jefferson have used autopens or mechanized signing gadgets. It’s authorized, and Trump has acknowledged utilizing the autopen himself.
TRUMP: Just for very unimportant papers.
GUTIERREZ: Right this moment he was pressed whether or not he’s uncovered proof of something signed with out Biden’s information.
TRUMP: No. However I’ve uncovered, , the human thoughts. I used to be in a debate with the human thoughts and I did not suppose he knew what the hell he was doing.
GUTIERREZ: Final week Biden, who was not too long ago recognized with prostate most cancers, dismissed rising scrutiny of his psychological competence whereas in workplace.
JOE BIDEN: I’ll put my document as president in opposition to any president in any respect.
GUTIERREZ: In a single day, the previous president blasting Trump’s autopen inquiry as a distraction. “Let me be clear”, Biden writing. “I made the choices throughout my presidency. Any suggestion that I did not is ridiculous and false.”
Home Republicans are ramping up the inquiry into former President Biden, issuing a subpoena for his White Home doctor. If he does testify, it could be unprecedented, Tom.
LLAMAS: It could. All proper, Gabe. Nice to have you ever right here in studio.
Let’s run via the assorted firefighting situations. Llamas set the tone when he proclaimed that Trump had “no proof paperwork have been signed with out President Biden’s information, or of something unlawful.” The entire objective of conducting an inquiry is to see whether or not there was any wrongdoing.
There’s definitely a suspicion arising from the spate of pardons and commutations in the direction of the top of the Biden presidency. There was additionally the bizarre proclamation of ratification of the twenty eighth (Equal Rights) Modification to the Structure, which nobody talks about anymore.
Gabe Gutierrez additionally raises doubts concerning the legitimacy of this investigation by citing the assorted former presidents that signed with an autopen. And it’s a powerful record, for certain. However I’m pretty sure that none of these presidents confronted vital questions on their psychological well being and/or cognitive skills.
Gutierrez winds down with a optimistic point out of Biden, and by saying that dragging within the former White Home physician is “unprecedented.” That is likely to be.the case, however not as unprecedented as a possible plot to cover the president’s apparent psychological decline.
