Trivia question: How many pardons were signed by the auto-pen?

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      MickMick
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      Joe Biden’s mental acuity was never strong. It was most apparent when he was running in 2019 and 2020 that he was compromised. His staff denied access to Biden, who had his “good days” and bad days.

      By the end of his term, Biden’s debate performance against Trump was…well, it showed the signs of advanced age, as did the prosecutor’s refusal to prosecute Biden over illegal document retention, simply because Biden was a “well-intentioned, easily confused elderly man.”

      Long after those events, Biden hand-signed just one pardon, the pardon for Hunter Biden who had three gun felonies, including an extraordinary “has committed or may have committed” extending into the future after he signed the document. That one could not be challenged. The other 79 pardons and 4.245 acts of clemency were signed by auto-pen. Who signed them? We may never know. What we do know is that Biden set a leniency record.

      DoJ Pardon Attorney (yes, there is such a person) is reviewing Biden-era pardons. James Comer (R-Ky) is leading the investigation into the cover-up.

      Four former Biden aides have agreed to voluntarily testify. Biden’s former White House doctor declined a voluntary interview. Comer subpoenad him, and sent similar outreaches to five other former Biden staffers.

      A table showing how presidents compare on clemency.

      Biden breakdown: Where investigations into the former president stand

    • #10229
      LegendLegend
      Keymaster

      Interesting graphic and even more interesting when you consider Biden was a 1-term president.

       

      I find it hard to believe that a Presidential signature on an act of clemency has zero witnesses.  I have to have a notary show that I signed a legal document and you’re telling me the President can overturn a jury trial without even showing he signed a document?    That’s just astounding and to me it’s not a matter of presidential competency, it’s a question of moral turpitude of the people around a given president.  Imagine if a president lost his memory and then a staffer just decided to pardon all the murderers on death row!  That would be akin to a coup.

       

      Probably would never happen though.

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