Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen

[SouthBayDem]

Source: New York Times (gift link)

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is escalating his battle against Republican claims that he might not have been in control of high-profile clemency decisions issued under his name at the end of his term and, more generally, that his cognitive state impaired his functioning in office.

In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Biden said that he had orally granted all the pardons and commutations issued at the end of his term, calling President Trump and other Republicans “liars” for claiming his aides had used an autopen to do so without his authorization.

“I made every decision,” Mr. Biden said in a phone interview on Thursday, asserting that he had his staff use an autopen replicating his signature on the clemency warrants because “we’re talking about a whole lot of people.”

The interview was Mr. Biden’s first about the parallel investigations begun by the Trump White House, the Justice Department and Congress into a series of clemency decisions made by Mr. Biden in his final weeks in office and his mental acuity during his term.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WU8.uI0S.bm_hmF4e5X8J

[pbmus]

1. Why are so many prominent dems silent about this issue?

[MadameButterfly]

2. Because it's ridiculous and no evidence will be found

i'm not sure hyping it up would help Biden. Let it fail on it's own. With the help of some good lawyers.

[cstanleytech]

4. Plus the more that they attempt to do so the more people will assume they are lying.

In the end it just serves no purpose except to feed the MAGA trolls even more so it's better to cut off their food supply by ignoring it.

[wolfie001]

10. Just like Alex Jones and "Chemtrails"

I think that was Bill C.'s master plan or something. Turning everyone "queer". Stupid gullible redneck voters. Hopeless.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Because it's their default setting?

[fujiyamasan]

7. Because elected democrats want to stay as far away from Biden as possible

Biden is not a popular ex president and I think many democrats harbor some ill will towards him for the election being what it was.

[BaronChocula]

3. If I were President Biden I would have followed up with

"Meanwhile we now have a president that doesn't even know what article of the Constitution pertains to his office. He doesn't know English is the official language of Liberia. He thinks Frederick Douglass is still alive. Not to mention, he's a convicted felon. So if you're concerned about my mental acuity, I have a bigger story for you."

[Cha]

5. IF only Reality could Mirror

Reality!

[Ursus Rex]

9. The Times would have omitted that "for clarity"

... you know, since this was *just* about AutoPen.

[Miguelito Loveless]

11. I expect a 6-3 SCOTUS ruling

invalidating the pardons, but just Biden's.

[RussBLib]

15. Doubtful

The pardon power of the president is for all practical purposes plenary.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[Brainfodder]

12. I await dufus blaming his PEDO on Biden's autopen use at this point?

BUT DO NOT TALK ABOUT EPSTEIN!

[Bengus81]

13. Hey Trump remember...the SC gave HIM the power to do any FUCKING thing he wanted

He could have ENDED the 2024 election season and anointed himself President and had you thrown in jail. So shut your fat fucking face.

Or wait....was that SC power ONLY for you Trump?

[mackdaddy]

14. So did Trump hand sign all One Thousand Six hundred clemency orders for the Jan 6 convicts?

I somehow doubt that...