Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton uncorked a new Joe Biden scandal Tuesday with a slew of never-before-seen notecards the then-President was given to help him remember names and faces at events, including Hillary Clinton and Denzel Washington. This time, Colton also revealed ABC’s chief Biden regime apple polisher Mary Bruce has some explaining to do.
In this batch obtained exclusively as part of the investigation into the Biden regime’s use of the autopen, Colton revealed a notecard included Bruce’s name, face, and alleged questions at an April 26, 2023 press conference with the then-South Korean president:
A Fox News Digital review found that the ABC News journalist asked Biden about his re-election effort during a joint press conference with the South Korean president April 26, 2023, in the Rose Garden. Bruce was the third reporter to ask Biden a question during the press conference, which fell on the same day House Republicans approved a bill to increase the debt ceiling.
The card included a thumbnail photo of Bruce, her name, outlet, and then two questions. The first concerned his reelection bid: “2024: How do YOU view the path forward? How do YOU think about YOUR place in history?”
The second was about what was then a debt limit battle with Congress: “Speaker McCarthy / Debt Limit: Depending on what happens with the House vote on the Speaker’s debt limit bill tomorrow, how do YOU anticipate moving forward?”
Here was what Bruce ended up asking:
Ahead of a question to the South Korean president, Bruce asked a follow-up: “To be clear, though, you just said, ‘I know him well.’ Did Donald Trump’s decision to run affect yours? Would you be running if he wasn’t?”
Significantly, this was the same presser in which Biden used a notecard to call on then-Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian, which triggered a days-long scandal the White House and liberal media writ large either ignored or dismissed as a nothing burger and unimportant.
Unlike the alleged Bruce questions on this notecard, the one attributed on the card to Subramanian was nearly identical to what she asked publicly.
Nonetheless, Bruce should still answer to what (if anything) she gave up in order to be selected as a questioner at this joint press conference and whether she was under any pressure to decide in advance what she’d ask.
As for why she was selected, her years of pungent bias were almost certainly why. Bruce really missed her calling as Jen Psaki’s replacement or even an assistant to Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre.
Colton’s exclusive began with a refresher course on what the notecards are used for (click “expand”):
EXCLUSIVE: Unearthed note cards from the Biden era show the administration detailed the names and photos of high-profile Democrats, such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as lesser-known individuals for then-President Joe Biden to ostensibly reference during live events, documents obtained by Fox News Digital show.
Five different “palm cards,” which are hand-sized note cards frequently used by politicians for quick reminders or talking points during public events, especially while on the campaign trail, were uncovered amid an investigation of National Archive documents related to the Biden administration's use of an autopen, and obtained by Fox News Digital.
Four of the five cards obtained by Fox Digital are stamped with a disclaimer reading, “PRESIDENT HAS SEEN,” while a fifth card detailing an ABC News reporter's question to Biden during a press conference did not include that stamp.
Colton reached out to Biden’s office about this, but has unsurprisingly found nothing: “It is unclear if Biden relied on each of the cards during the various public events. Fox News Digital reached out to Biden's office for any comment and clarification on the use of the cards but did not immediately receive a reply.”
The other four notecards she obtained concerned events in early 2025 before Biden left office. In one, Clinton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside Denzel Washington, chef José Andrés, and billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and Baltimore Orioles owner David Rubenstein. For Clinton, the notecard reminded him she was the secretary of state when Biden was vice president.
Card two concerned a January 2025 event celebrating his 235 confirmations to the federal judiciary with Biden having to have been reminded who Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer were.
As for the other two, one concerned the Kennedy Center Honors from December 7, 2024 and the fourth a meet and greet from January 18, 2025 that included White House Historical Association President Stewart McLaurin and Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker and his family.
“Politicians long have used palm cards while on the campaign trail. Biden's use of the cards while serving as president added fuel to the fire of concern over his mental acuity, though, including Axios reporting in 2024 that donors were spooked by Biden's reliance on the notes,” Colton added.
