Speaker Johnson Says That Biden Didn't Know He Had Signed An Executive Order (That Helped Putin)

Posted • January 18, 2025: Yesterday was a big news day, between the Supreme Court allowing the so-called TikTok ban to go through, Joe Biden claiming he could declare a constitutional amendment into existence, and CNN getting walloped with a multi-million dollar defamation award (and the jury is still out on punitive damages), so this video fell through the cracks, but it is worth paying attention to. The Free Press interviewed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and in the midst of it, he dropped a bombshell. -- Speaker Mike Johnson tells Bari Weiss that President Biden hasn’t been in charge for a while. In January 2024, when Johnson and Biden were alone in the Oval Office, the president couldn’t recall an important executive order he had signed just three weeks earlier. Johnson recalled telling Biden: ‘Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies. Why would you do that?’ Biden, according to Johnson, was stunned. ‘I didn’t do that.’

‘He genuinely didn’t know what he had signed,’ Johnson said. ‘And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble—who is running the country?’ Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.’ - ‘The Free Press in D.C.’ episodes of Honestly are presented by Uber and X. Tune into this episode at 10:00 a.m. Monday on X. (LNG stands for ‘liquid natural gas.’) You might be tempted to say, ‘where’s the news? We’ve known that Biden wasn’t all there for years.’ Indeed, this author wrote a piece discussing strong evidence that we had in 2020 that Biden was at times incompetent. But what is unique here is that we are not aware of any time where anyone presented evidence that Biden was incompetent when he took action as president.

Previously, we argued that the incoming Trump administration should investigate the Biden administration in order to determine whether or not any of Biden’s actions could be nullified, entitled: ‘Joe Biden’s Potential Incompetence Threatens Chaos in Our System (And We Should Embrace the Chaos).’ Our basic point is that if Biden had signed a contract as a private citizen or had written a will under these conditions, these documents would be subject to challenge based on the claim that he was not competent to sign them—so why should it be any different for any actions he personally took as president? There are two ways presidents act: Either they do something directly (like a veto or pardon) or they delegate power to others. If Joe Biden was not competent, all the things he did directly are called into question. And while that doesn’t call into question the actions of the people Biden delegated his power to—such as the Secretary of Transportation—what if he wasn’t competent when he appointed Pete Buttigieg?

Well, another way they act is through executive orders. Naturally, we don’t assume presidents write every order that they sign, or even most of them, but we do expect them to know what they are signing and Johnson’s interview is strong evidence that Biden didn’t. And if he didn’t know because he was not competent enough to learn about it and retain the information, this author thinks that this is a valid reason to challenge this executive order. Many executive orders create winners and losers, and the people who lost money due to this order should challenge it in court by arguing that Biden was not competent when he issued it. ‘But that would spell chaos in our system!’ you might say. And you are right, which is why I suggested we embrace the chaos: A fraud has been perpetuated on the American people. They were told they had a president, when much of the time they didn’t. And the people who carried out this fraud did this presumably because they wanted the power and the specific executive actions they were able to obtain. …

Someday we will probably have another president whose competence can genuinely be called into question—it becomes almost mathematically inevitable if America survives just 200 years into the future. What lesson should the history of the Biden years tell the future? That if you can just cover it up, you can get away with it? Or that when it is discovered, all of those gains made at the expense of an incompetent president would be lost? (…)

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