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Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., stated his panel is wrapping up its investigation into President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen after a brand new report revealed considerations raised throughout the former administration itself.
“New data reveal President Biden’s personal administration raised considerations about autopen use to grant hundreds of pardons. It is a historic scandal with large repercussions,” Comer informed Fox Information Digital in response to the Axios report.
“As President Biden declined, his aides carried out govt actions with out his approval, casting doubt on the legitimacy of hundreds of pardons and different govt actions.”
Comer added, “The Home Oversight Committee is within the last phases of its investigation. There should be accountability for this scandal.”
BIDEN’S AUTO-PEN PARDONS DISTURBED DOJ BRASS, DOCS SHOW, RAISING QUESTIONS WHETHER THEY ARE LEGALLY BINDING
Home Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer is main a probe into autopen use by President Joe Biden. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photos)
President Donald Trump weighed in on Reality Social: “THE BIDEN AUTOPEN SCANDAL IS BIG, NOT AS BIG AS THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, OR THE RIGGED 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BUT, NEVERTHELESS, ONE OF THE BIGGEST, EVER!!!”
A former Biden White Home staffer aware of the pardons course of pushed again.
“Republicans like to speak about Biden each time information hits that they don’t wish to speak about. At the moment, they wish to speak about Biden as a result of Trump is answerable for the newest jobs report, which is the worst August jobs acquire since 2020,” the staffer informed Fox Information Digital.
“What these emails present is a full course of to assist that decision-making and checks on using the autopen.”
Axios reported over the weekend that senior Division of Justice (DOJ) officers flagged points with Biden’s clemency course of in his last days in workplace.
Biden authorised practically 2,500 commutations on Jan. 17, simply days earlier than leaving the White Home, setting a document for many clemency orders ever granted by a U.S. president — greater than 4,200 in whole — and essentially the most ever in a single day.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media alongside first girl Melania Trump as they depart the White Home on April 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photos)
The subsequent day, DOJ ethics lawyer Bradley Weinsheimer reportedly wrote in a memo: “Sadly and regardless of repeated requests and warnings, we weren’t afforded an affordable alternative to vet and supply enter on these you had been contemplating.”
Noting that at the very least one assassin granted clemency had been flagged by DOJ, he added: “I don’t know if the president was conscious of those backgrounds when making clemency choices.” The New York Publish first reported particulars of the memo.
In the meantime, Axios reported {that a} DOJ pardon legal professional took problem with White Home attorneys asking the division to not solicit views of homicide victims’ households of a number of demise row inmates if it had not already executed so — together with individuals whose sentences Biden commuted as properly.
The Axios report additional revealed that Biden White Home workers secretary Stef Feldman repeatedly sought readability on the autopen course of. In a single Jan. 16 e-mail, she requested for particulars on drug-related clemency orders authorised by then-Chief of Workers Jeff Zients. After being requested to make use of autopen on an govt order, Feldman reportedly wrote: “When did we get [Biden’s] approval of this?”
‘SHOULD BE PROSECUTED’: HOUSE REPUBLICANS ZERO IN ON BIDEN AUTOPEN PARDONS AFTER BOMBSHELL REPORT
Then-President Joe Biden talks to reporters on the South Garden of the White Home on Sept. 2, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)
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The previous Biden staffer insisted the method was sound.
“The pardon energy rests with the president — not the Division of Justice,” the staffer stated. “Whereas the DOJ is free to lift its personal considerations about pardons, and did earlier than Trump fired the entire profession workers who did so, it’s finally the President’s resolution.”
Biden himself informed The New York Instances not too long ago that he made each clemency resolution on his personal.
Zients is anticipated to testify earlier than the Oversight Committee later this month. Former White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre can be scheduled for a closed-door interview Friday.
