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Biden smacks down GOP’s faux scandal

Editorial Board Published July 14, 2025
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In a uncommon interview since leaving workplace in January, former President Joe Biden dismissed one of many proper’s more strange conspiracies: that his aides have been secretly working the nation utilizing an autopen.

The appropriate, together with President Donald Trump and his allies, have claimed that in Biden’s ultimate months in workplace, his alleged cognitive decline made him unfit to make clemency selections, and that employees exploited the autopen—a tool to routinely signal paperwork—to situation pardons with out his information.

“I made every single one of those,” Biden informed The New York Instances. “I understand why Trump would think that, because obviously, I guess, he doesn’t focus much. Anyway, so—yes, I made every decision.”

Whereas Biden didn’t personally signal every clemency order, the Instances experiences he was closely concerned within the course of—reviewing suggestions, setting standards, and giving oral approval after aides walked him by way of the names one after the other.

“I was deeply involved,” he stated. “I laid out a strategy how I want to go about these, dealing with pardons and commutations. I was—and I pulled the team in to say this is how I want to get it done generically and then specifically.” 


Then-candidate Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally in December 2023 in Reno, Nevada.

Nonetheless, Trump retains spinning the story. In a March submit on his Reality Social platform, he claimed Biden had no “knowledge or consent” of the clemency selections, a few of which benefited Trump’s perceived political enemies. 

“Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” Trump wrote, suggesting the individuals who did “may have committed a crime.”

Biden’s rationalization is way less complicated. He informed the Instances the rationale he didn’t signal them personally was “because there were a lot of them.”

In his ultimate weeks, Biden issued commutations for dying row inmates and guarded public servants, like former prime public well being adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and retired Gen. Mark Milley, from political retribution. Biden additionally shielded members of the family from Trump’s promised marketing campaign of vengeance.

“I know how vindictive he is,” Biden stated of Trump. “Everybody knows how vindictive he is. So we knew that they’d do what they’re doing now. … [A]ll it would do is, if they, if he went after them, would be, is run up legal bills. I just, I just know how he operates.”

The autopen has been utilized by a number of previous presidents, together with Trump himself, however Biden’s use of it’s now on the middle of a GOP-led investigation. Home Oversight Chair James Comer has known as the supposed cover-up of Biden’s alleged decline a “historic scandal,” and has asserted that Republicans are decided to “prevent such an abuse from happening again.”

Conservatives have even questioned the legality of autopen-signed orders. However that argument is unlikely to carry up. The Justice Division accredited the observe in 2005. Former President Barack Obama was the primary to apply it to laws in 2011. Trump adopted swimsuit, although he first lied about having used it.

FILE - House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., speaks during hearing on Capitol Hill, Feb. 8, 2023, in Washington. Kathy Chung. a former executive assistant to President Joe Biden has agreed to sit for an interview with the House Oversight Committee as Republicans expand their probe into the president's handling of classified documents. Chung is one of the staffers who packed Biden's belongings at the end of his term as vice president will talk to the committee on April 4. Comer requested the interview. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Home Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer speaks throughout listening to on Capitol Hill in February 2023.

“The autopen is, you know, is legal,” Biden informed the Instances. “As you know, other presidents used it, including Trump. But the point is that, you know, we’re talking about a whole lot of people.”

Even so, Republicans aren’t letting it go. Trump’s Justice Division is reportedly investigating whether or not Biden was mentally match to situation these pardons. In the meantime, Republicans on the Home Oversight Committee are probing his well being. Biden’s doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, not too long ago declined to testify, citing affected person confidentiality and his Fifth Modification rights. Extra aides are anticipated to be questioned within the coming weeks.

Comer condemned O’Connor’s silence as proof of a cover-up.

“It’s clear there was a conspiracy to cover up President Biden’s cognitive decline,” he stated.

However Biden isn’t shopping for the sincerity of Republicans’ outrage.

“They’re liars. They know it,” he informed the Instances. “They’ve done so badly. They’ve lied so consistently about almost everything they’re doing. The best thing they can do is try to change the focus and focus on something else. … I think that’s what this is about.” 

So whereas Republicans give attention to signatures and conspiracies, Biden is betting the general public received’t be fooled. The paperwork have been signed. The selections have been his. And if Trump needs to argue in any other case, Biden appears able to defend himself.

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