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Rand Paul signals Jill Biden, Anthony Fauci could be looked at in autopen probe
The Hill ^ | 07/27/25 7:00 AM ET | by Ashleigh Fields

Posted on 07/27/2025 7:03:07 PM PDT by RandFan

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that former first lady Jill Biden and Anthony Fauci could be examined during Congress’s autopen probe.

President Trump has railed against his predecessor, former President Biden, for using the autopen to pardon individuals during his last few months in office.

The president ordered a probe into the signatures on various pardons in June while GOP lawmakers requested interviews with several former White House staffers to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Some have pleaded the Fifth at some point during their testimonies.

“Even though Anthony Fauci has been pardoned, there is some question whether it’s a legitimate pardon. His pardon wasn’t signed by President Biden,” Paul said during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.

“It’s unclear whether President Biden is mentally cognizant enough of the situation to know who he pardoned. Hundreds and hundreds of people were pardoned in a day by a mechanical signature from a machine. We do know there’s been testimony from the people running the machine that they never talked to the president, that they talked to an assistant that works for the president’s wife,” he added.

Biden has previously argued that past administrations have used the autopen to sign government paperwork, proving its legality. However, Republicans have refused to let go of criticism regarding his signature on multiple pardons.

“Who knew that we weren’t being run by Joe Biden, but we were being run by some kind of chief of staff that worked for his wife. That’s something to a lot of Americans to know that that person was granting power of pardons and could have taken the country to war and was never elected,” Paul said.

“So I think the way the best way to sort this out is you have to go to court. And I think the easiest way to get this into court is they should indict Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress, and he will make a defense that he’s been pardoned,” he added.

Paul also pointed out that the autopen was not used to sign the pardon for Hunter Biden.

“I think there is a question whether these pardons are valid. Interestingly, when he had to do the pardon for his son, he didn’t take any chances by running it for the auto pen,” Paul.

“The pardon for Hunter Biden for any crimes committed over the last 10 years, any crimes, was done by personal hand signature by Biden, not the auto pen.”


TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: grandstanding; randpaulsucks; trollfarm; whataboutepstein

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1 posted on 07/27/2025 7:03:07 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

one might also approach the autopen question by checking to see if those operating the machine were selling any of the pardons/ indulgences?

Often, “following the money” leads to interesting revelations (especially in a place as highly corrupt as WashedUpDC)


2 posted on 07/27/2025 7:25:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: RandFan

Oh wow. The senate. Rand Paul. They’re all over this

Like white on rice

Like Elmer Fudd


3 posted on 07/27/2025 7:29:03 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: RandFan

What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it.

How many pardons were sold by Whitehouse staffers?


4 posted on 07/27/2025 7:39:38 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: RandFan

Post an article when someone goes to jail.


5 posted on 07/27/2025 7:39:45 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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Bringing in the recently memory-holed autopen thing as an auxiliary Epstein distraction device — kind of like the extra light beam needed to beam Homer into the UFO.


6 posted on 07/27/2025 7:44:16 PM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: RandFan

Rand Paul, then up and do it. Otherwise it’s grandstanding.
But don’t think people don’t remember your grandstanding when you voted with the Dems against the tax cuts.
But Paul doesn’t have half the guts of Tulsi Gabbard.


7 posted on 07/27/2025 7:54:46 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: RandFan

I don’t give a rat’s you-knowp-what about “looked at”.

I only care about “locked up”.


8 posted on 07/27/2025 8:02:44 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: RandFan

Those two are the LEAST likely to be prosecuted for anything. Rand needs to get one board with looking at the ones that Tulsi has exposed already.


9 posted on 07/27/2025 8:34:19 PM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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“Even though Anthony Fauci has been pardoned, there is some question whether it’s a legitimate pardon. His pardon wasn’t signed by President Biden,” Paul said during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.


10 posted on 07/27/2025 8:43:24 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: Quickgun
Rand needs to get one board with looking at the ones that Tulsi has exposed already.

He's not that bright.

11 posted on 07/27/2025 9:16:57 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: RandFan

Stop telling us what you are going to do or what might happen and just do it Rand!


12 posted on 07/27/2025 9:17:50 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: jmacusa
> Post an article when someone goes to jail.

Heck, I'd be thrilled to hear that someone has been arrested!!

13 posted on 07/27/2025 9:29:56 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored

Better yet!


14 posted on 07/27/2025 9:31:19 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jroehl
What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it.

And when did he forget all about it and fall asleep over his Cream of Rice?

15 posted on 07/27/2025 10:10:43 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MacNaughton

Look for them at a fancy catered party in the Hamptons.


16 posted on 07/27/2025 10:11:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

Make Biden do public questioning.

Make Biden do public cognitive testing.

Why not……

It’s the most important position in America or the world…


17 posted on 07/27/2025 10:25:02 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (God Bless President Trump!)
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I don't care if it's the proclaimed "second-come Jesus", if laws have been broken you need to answer in the public square of the law.
18 posted on 07/28/2025 2:50:31 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: faithhopecharity

Joh my memory, did Sun Tzu say ‘always tell the enemy your detailed war plans’?


19 posted on 07/28/2025 3:09:26 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: MacNaughton

🔝🔝🔝


20 posted on 07/28/2025 4:34:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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