Posted on 09/06/2025 1:06:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
New documents show that President Biden was checked out of decisions on pardoning felons and commuting the sentences of death-row inmates while his aides worked to make him look involved on paper.
The National Archives and Records Administration handed over Biden administration memos detailing steps taken to create a record that would make Mr. Biden look like the decision-maker for the thousands of pardons signed by autopen during his final days in office.
“Internal emails reveal Biden didn’t review thousands of pardons granted in his final days and even his own White House lawyers were scrambling for proof he approved them,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee aides posted on social media.
Other newly leaked documents show the National Archives searched its records on the administration’s commutation of nearly every federal death sentence but could “not find a version indicating President Biden’s approval.”
The records were leaked to several news outlets amid a Trump administration probe into Mr. Biden’s historically heavy use of the autopen.
Mike Howell, executive director of the watchdog group Oversight Project, has called on President Trump to take action to reverse some of the pardons and to block the release of felons who received reduced sentences thanks to clemency granted by the Biden autopen.
“We’ve been right all along and do not mind being proven right again. Now is the time for actual accountability. There are death-row inmates with bad commutations who need to be taken care of, in addition to all the other political cronies with legally void pardons,” Mr. Howell told The Washington Times.
The Washington Times reported last month that Mr. Biden’s Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer criticized “highly problematic” language used in a single warrant, signed by the autopen, that pardoned hundreds...
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Aren’t there laws against falsifying government documents?
To portray Biden as “checked out” one must assume he actually “checked in” at some point during his presidency. That assumes facts not in evidence.
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I wish Trump would challenge all those blanket pardons...how do you pardon someone for a non-specific crime that isn’t even alleged or charged, let alone convicted? At least it would be beneficial to challenge them just to get clarification from SCOTUS.
What might be the chances that Mister Biden's staffers were mere lieutenants in this (and other policy directives); and, that a shadowy, well-insulated committee of some sort comprised the 'presidency'?
I have no idea, of course, it's a suspicion not an accusation. That stupulated, I'd like to know that if there was one, who may have been 'Mr. Big'?
President Trump pardoned General Flynn. He has never been convicted of anything. His case had been thrown out due to corruption on both sides. He gave him the pardon to prevent future lawfare which was the right thing to do.
The pardons were approved by Adm Pike from Star Trek.
I heard Biden could use his left hand for the pardons if he got writer’s cramp in his right hand.
How did President Trump pardon all of the nonviolent J Sixers? I am glad he did that but there were a lot of them.
ABSOLUTELY
RE: Who was Mr. Big?
Yaphet Kotto, the fine and talented actor of Homicide: Life On the Street and movies such as Raid on Entebbe and Midnight Run.
Mr. Big in Live and Let Die.
“At least it would be beneficial to challenge them just to get clarification from SCOTUS.”
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Hear, hear! And I think that is where this is all headed.
And they got paid very well for it too.
If not, there certainly ought to be.
Those pardons were for actual crimes charged and convicted. None of Biden’s pardons were for any actual crimes alleged or convicted. Big difference.
Yup. If they find evidence of money changing hands ( I bet they can) then this whole thing becomes a new ballgame.
I want to know if anyone of them received any money (got paid off) to do it...............
I’d like to know that if there was one, who may have been ‘Mr. Big’?
They probably sold them for bitcoin.
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