The White Home Counsel’s Workplace is investigating the Biden administration’s use of the autopen, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt introduced on July 17.
“The White House Counsel’s Office has launched their own investigation into former President [Joe] Biden’s usage of the autopen,” and the White Home has requested paperwork from the Nationwide Archives, she mentioned at a press briefing.
“As I’ve said many times from this podium, and the president has said as well, it’s incredibly important that we get to the bottom of who really was at the tip of the spear and the decision-making process here in the White House,” she mentioned.
Leavitt famous that Biden advised The New York Occasions that he didn’t approve each pardon within the closing days of his presidency.
The NY Occasions reported that “Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people” and that, as an alternative, “after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence.”
Biden advised the outlet he “made every decision,” and that the autopen was used on clemency strikes as a result of “we’re talking about a whole lot of people.”
Calling that “concerning,” Leavitt mentioned President Donald Trump doesn’t function that means.
“It’s something this president would never tolerate. This is a president who is signing things all the time, any document that has legal implications, this president’s signature is on it because he’s the one making the decisions,” she mentioned.
Leavitt mentioned the American folks have the best to learn about the usage of the autopen within the Biden White Home.
“I know the American people want to receive answers on who was running the show here, as the decisions made in this place really destroyed our country, and we deserve to get to the bottom of it,” she mentioned.
In June, Trump ordered an investigation into Biden’s use of the autopen, calling it “one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history.”
“The counsel to the President, in consultation with the attorney general and the head of any other relevant executive department or agency (agency), shall investigate, to the extent permitted by law, whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the president,” Trump mentioned in a June 4 memorandum.
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