Whoops, Our Bad: Biden DOJ Had Warned That His ‘Nonviolent’ Pardons Might Actually Be Violent

Turns out, internal memos from the Justice Department went full corporate panic mode on President Biden’s mass clemency gambit before he left office. According to Just the News, Associate Deputy AG Brad Weinsheimer warned the White House that the phrase “offenses described to the DOJ” in the commutation warrants was so vague it could backfire – literally freeing violent offenders, in opposition to what Biden had told the public. You mean he lied?! Shocking!

Weinsheimer didn’t stop there. He threw shade at the White House’s PR spin, calling out their narrative that all clemency recipients were nonviolent drug offenders. His words: “Stop saying that because it is untrue or at least misleading.”

Weinsheimer noted that even from the tiny slice of cases the DOJ got to preview, 19 were flagged as “highly problematic.” Among the freshly liberated included drug offenders who had a history of violence that even included the killings of police officers – and a man who killed a woman and her two-year-old child to protect his drug operation.

Most people know Biden never personally signed much of anything, and the controversial use of an autopen – a mechanical signature device – to rubber-stamp roughly 4,000 clemency actions before he walked out of the Oval Office only made the mess worse.

In the end, Biden’s clemency blitz wasn’t a noble act of mercy – it was a bureaucratic train wreck with a mechanical pen for a conductor. Violent offenders slipped through the cracks, DOJ lawyers were ignored, and the White House still tried to sell it as a feel-good drug reform victory.

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