We the People Know Who Controlled the Biden Autopen…and This Scandal Has Become Worse

Justice Department Official Ed Martin has been investigating the pardons issued by Joe Biden. They might not have been legal.

The autopen has been a controversial aspect of the White House; some argue that it is unconstitutional.

This from townhall.com.

Martin falls into the camp that feel the autopen is fine, but the president must be cogent about its use. There must be a paper trail and direct orders from the president to use this device to sign pardons and grant clemency, of which thousands were issued supposedly by Joe-Joe Rocks for Brains.

Martin claimed a senior Leftist whistleblower came forward. Some names were offered as being the ringleaders, namely Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer, Neera Tanden, Elizabeth Warren, and Ron Klain.

The New York Times had a lengthy piece about this scandal after the National Archives turned over thousands of emails relating to the pardons for review by the DOJ. It seems the pardons for the January 6^th Committee and Anthony Fauci might not be binding. Also, how the Obiden White House issued pardons is absolutely crazy:

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.”

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In the interview, Mr. Biden explained that he decided against commuting the sentences of three death-row inmates convicted of such crimes to life sentences, too, even though “some thought I should have.” Their offenses affected American society as a whole, Mr. Biden said, so commuting their sentences would have been “a bridge too far.”

The fourth set was announced on Mr. Biden’s last day. They included pre-emptive pardons for members of his own family and various people who have drawn Mr. Trump’s ire.

The emails reflect White House activity surrounding each of those tranches, including the dates of the meetings at which White House officials indicate Mr. Biden made decisions and the names of the senior aides in attendance.

They also show that use of the autopen was managed by Mr. Biden’s White House staff secretary, Ms. Feldman. She wanted to receive written accounts confirming Mr. Biden’s oral instructions in the meetings before having it used to produce the warrants recording the clemency actions, the emails show.

The aides referred to those written accounts of meetings at which Mr. Biden delivered oral decisions as “blurbs.” The accounts were drafted by aides to the senior advisers who had participated in the key meetings — like Mr. Biden’s chief of staff, Jeffrey D. Zients, and Mr. Siskel.

The assistants who drafted the blurbs were not themselves in the room with Mr. Biden, according to the lists of meeting participants. The emails imply that Mr. Siskel and Mr. Zients relayed what Mr. Biden had said to the assistants, who then documented it.

The assistants circulated the drafts to Mr. Siskel, Mr. Zients and other meeting participants before sending the final versions to Ms. Feldman, again copying the meeting participants.

For the earlier sets of large-scale clemency actions, the process sometimes took place several days after the meeting with Mr. Biden. For two crucial meetings at the end of his term, it took place on the same days.

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At the Jan. 19 meeting, which took place in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House residence, Mr. Biden kept his aides until nearly 10 p.m. to talk through such decisions, according to people familiar with the matter.

The emails show that an aide to Mr. Siskel sent a draft summary of Mr. Biden’s decisions at that meeting to an assistant to Mr. Zients, copying Mr. Siskel, at 10:03 p.m. The assistant forwarded it to Mr. Reed and Mr. Zients, asking for their approval, and then sent a final version to Ms. Feldman — copying many meeting participants and aides — at 10:28 p.m.

Three minutes later, Mr. Zients hit “reply all” and wrote, “I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons.”

Of course, the Times tried to pivot in some areas, claiming the emails they reviewed do not paint the whole picture since they could not analyze them all. Please note the chief of staff appears to have unilaterally approved pardons, as the White House has been inundated with requests for pardons or clemency. There is no way Biden knew what was going on, given his mental state. This is a circus. Staffers were helming the ship on this, not Biden, though that is hardly shocking.

But on these matters, where presidential pardoning power is one of the acts of executive power that is damn-near absolute, it cannot be governed by a constitutional monarchy of sorts. The president cannot be a figurehead—he must personally sign off on all pardons, and that, as We the People suspect, appears to be in doubt.