Joe Biden spent four years hiding behind a wall of aides, handlers, and convenient privilege claims.
Now Trump tore the wall down.
And what Congress is about to find behind it may be the biggest scandal in modern presidential history.
Biden Records on Cognitive Decline and Hunter Finances Now Headed to Congress
On Monday, White House Counsel David Warrington sent a letter to the National Archives ordering the release of Biden administration documents to four separate congressional investigations.
Biden had claimed executive privilege over the materials as recently as December.
Trump rejected it.
Warrington's letter was blunt: Biden's assertion "is not justified." The records now go directly to Congress.
Three categories of documents are now in play. The financial corruption thread — Biden's private email accounts, his Ukraine dealings as vice president, and Hunter Biden's lucrative seat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his father shaped U.S. policy toward that country — is finally headed to investigators. So are documents related to the Biden administration's coordinated campaign to target Trump and his allies through politically motivated federal prosecutions. And front and center: the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' probe into what Warrington called the "coverup of former President Biden's health and cognitive decline."
Biden's people tried to shield all of it. They failed.
The Biden Coverup Used Executive Privilege as a Shield
Biden's legal team argued executive privilege protected his internal communications and deliberations.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board called a near-identical claim "bogus" when Biden made it in 2024 — and the same legal logic applies here.
Executive privilege exists to protect legitimate presidential decision-making. It has never been recognized as a shield for a president's efforts to conceal his own incapacity or assist his son's overseas business arrangements.
Warrington made exactly that point in his letter. He acknowledged the Supreme Court's recognition of executive privilege as protecting presidential deliberations — then stated flatly that he was "unaware of a Supreme Court ruling or constitutional text" extending those protections to Biden's efforts to assist Hunter's "shady business deals."
That is a lawyer saying, in official White House correspondence: this claim has no legal foundation.
There is a pattern here that conservatives have watched play out for years. Biden asserted privilege over the Robert Hur interview audio in 2024 — the recording connected to a report describing him as an "elderly man with a poor memory." Biden used the same playbook then: hand over enough to look cooperative, then lock down anything that shows the real picture. Biden buried it.
Now Ron Johnson's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, James Comer's House Oversight Committee, and the Senate Judiciary Committee are all closing in — and Biden's last legal firewall just collapsed.
The Coverup Was Always Bigger Than Biden
Here is what the mainstream media will not say out loud: Joe Biden did not run this coverup alone.
A man who couldn't remember what years he served as vice president — documented in Robert Hur's own report — was not orchestrating a multi-year concealment operation. His staff was. His cabinet was. The Democratic Party's entire media apparatus was.
Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and every Democratic senator who stood at a microphone and called Biden "sharp" and "fully capable" were either deceived or lying. Given what these records are likely to show, deceived is the charitable explanation.
The autopen scandal runs directly into this. Trump's White House counsel documented it: Biden's staff used a mechanical signature device to sign documents — potentially including pardons — without clear presidential authorization. The DOJ probe was dropped not because the conduct didn't happen, but because prosecutors couldn't find a statute written to cover a sitting president's aides quietly running the executive branch in his name.
That is not an exoneration. That is a gap in federal law that Biden's team exploited.
The core question senators have been asking for months – who was running the country while Biden declined – is now one step closer to an answer.
Trump isn't just opening files. He is forcing a full accounting of what happens when a political party decides protecting its electoral position matters more than informing the American public about who is actually making decisions in the Oval Office.
The records are going to Congress. The aides who ran Biden's presidency while he declined are now exposed to testimony without privilege protection. And Schumer's caucus – the one that mocked these investigations as "baseless" – is about to watch four years of concealment walk into a congressional hearing room.
They called it a distraction. History is going to call it a reckoning.
Sources:
- Ashley Oliver, "Trump Rejects Shielding Biden Records from Senate Probes in Executive Privilege Showdown," Fox News, March 9, 2026.
- Ron Johnson, "Sen. Johnson Requests Records on Former President Biden's Declining Mental and Physical Health," Senate.gov, July 25, 2025.
- James Comer, "Comer Announces Oversight Committee Will Continue Investigating the Cover-Up of Biden's Mental Decline and Use of Autopen," House Oversight Committee, August 6, 2025.
- WSJ Editorial Board, "Biden Makes a Bogus Executive Privilege Claim," The Wall Street Journal, as cited by House Oversight Committee, December 2024.
- Ashley Oliver, "Trump Waives Executive Privilege Protection for Biden Aide Ahead of Cognitive Fitness Hearings," The Daily Wire, June 24, 2025.
