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mahatmakanejeeves

(67,480 posts)
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 07:05 AM Oct 28

GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are 'void' in final report

Source: CNN

GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are 'void' in final report

UPDATED 1 HR 8 MIN AGO
UPDATED OCT 28, 2025, 6:53 AM ET
PUBLISHED OCT 28, 2025, 5:00 AM ET
By Jake Tapper, Annie Grayer


President Joe Biden delivers his farewell ...

Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations signed in his name via autopen, the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee asserted in a letter it sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to consider whether that clemency might be invalid and to take action for potential prosecution against some of Biden’s aides.

The committee “deems void President Biden’s executive actions that were signed using the Autopen, and the committee determines that action by the Department of Justice is warranted to address the legal consequences of that determination,” it wrote to Bondi in the letter released Tuesday morning.

The letter was made public alongside a 93-page report outlining the committee’s conclusions from its months-long investigation into Biden’s use of the autopen. It alleged the committee had found “a cover-up of the president’s cognitive decline” and “no record demonstrating President Biden himself made all of the executive decisions that were attributed to him.”

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/biden-autopen-investigation-house-oversight-final-report

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GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are 'void' in final report (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 28 OP
Well, then everything that TSF has used the johnnyfins Oct 28 #1
Did TSF individually sign every J6er pardon? forgotmylogin Oct 28 #7
That was my 1st thought, too. slightlv Oct 28 #8
Another bs report.............. Lovie777 Oct 28 #2
GO FUCK YOURSELVES! Chasstev365 Oct 28 #3
Oh, if THAT'S the case, then I move to rescind 100% of all Trump's Executive Orders no_hypocrisy Oct 28 #4
Then all 1600 of the January 6th. rioters' pardons are void. sinkingfeeling Oct 28 #5
They want Hunter Biden! IcyPeas Oct 28 #6
They want them all bpj62 Oct 28 #12
Capture the moment Prince99 Oct 28 #9
Every decision Trump has made should be voided nuxvomica Oct 28 #10
Has it been confirmed homegirl Oct 28 #11
The Oversight Committee can opine, but do they have the power to overturn anything? Baitball Blogger Oct 28 #13
They can say whatever the hell they want. The power to pardon is confined to the president and the president only. Ray Bruns Oct 28 #15
And the lapdog media will breathlessly report this louis-t Oct 28 #14
Nonsense eringer Oct 28 #16
Bingo PortTack Oct 28 #18
And trump personally signed all the secessionist pardons ? republianmushroom Oct 28 #17
Release the Epstein Files ultralite001 Oct 28 #19
While they are at it... ultralite001 Oct 28 #20
Who cares what they say BaronChocula Oct 28 #21
Ridiculous. Give it up you monsters. travelingthrulife Oct 28 #22
wow!!!! tmars505 Nov 3 #26
MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT Smilo Oct 28 #23
When did the Oversight Committee BidenRocks Oct 28 #24
MaddowBlog-'I don't know who he is': Trump struggles to defend one of his most scandalous pardons LetMyPeopleVote Nov 3 #25

slightlv

(7,039 posts)
8. That was my 1st thought, too.
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 08:16 AM
Oct 28

All those J6 traitors need ti be thrown back in prison and all laws trump made, including the EOs need to be nullified. Ive had it up to here with their double standards. All they want to do besides delegitimize the Democratic party, is turn people off from voting democrats into office for fear of the next evil trump will wreak on them. There must be a way we can stop him besides trying to outvote a rigged system.

Chasstev365

(6,735 posts)
3. GO FUCK YOURSELVES!
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 07:25 AM
Oct 28

Republicans try to cheat at everything. Trump uses the autopen and so does Comer, but don't let that stop them from trying another fake Biden scandal.

no_hypocrisy

(53,773 posts)
4. Oh, if THAT'S the case, then I move to rescind 100% of all Trump's Executive Orders
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 07:30 AM
Oct 28

since the day he took office in 2025.

bpj62

(1,061 posts)
12. They want them all
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 09:32 AM
Oct 28

Hunter, General Milley, Liz Cheney. Adam Kinzinger, Fauci. Anyone who opposed Trump is on a list to be prosecuted and these pardons are preventing them from indicting them. They are investigating Adam Schiff over a false allegation that wasn't part of his pardon for his work on the J6 commitee.

Mark my words the DOJ will seek Indictments against them based soley on this committee report. DOJ will summarily void the pardons and dare the pardoned to petition the Supreme Court. This is all about inflicting financial ruin on anyone who investigated Trump.

Prince99

(102 posts)
9. Capture the moment
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 08:17 AM
Oct 28

The MRI and cognitive decline story yesterday should be front and center, again media is failing us. That said, this current story on Biden provides an opening and opportunity to redirect yesterdays story and Dems should be screaming (I know some are) more about Krasnov condition. This is so frustrating.

nuxvomica

(13,781 posts)
10. Every decision Trump has made should be voided
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 09:06 AM
Oct 28

He does not meet the requirements for federal office, as stated in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, because he engaged in an insurrection, the finding of that fact the result of litigation in Colorado courts in which Trump was a litigant and lost. This could not be more clear.

homegirl

(1,896 posts)
11. Has it been confirmed
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 09:24 AM
Oct 28

that Trump signed every one of the 1600 January 6th pardons with his own little grubby, sticky hand?

Baitball Blogger

(51,468 posts)
13. The Oversight Committee can opine, but do they have the power to overturn anything?
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 09:36 AM
Oct 28

Sounds like a separation of powers thingie. Besides, Biden has unlimited powers, per the Supreme Court.

Ray Bruns

(5,788 posts)
15. They can say whatever the hell they want. The power to pardon is confined to the president and the president only.
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 09:54 AM
Oct 28

Let them gnash their teeth all they want.

louis-t

(24,530 posts)
14. And the lapdog media will breathlessly report this
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 09:52 AM
Oct 28

for weeks while ignoring the Venezuelan false flag, CIA backed plan to attack an American ship and blame it on Venezuelans to give the orange fuck an excuse to bomb the snot out of the country.

eringer

(507 posts)
16. Nonsense
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 10:00 AM
Oct 28

News that is not worth reporting. Utter nonsense. This is just imitation red meat for the MAGA base.

ultralite001

(2,279 posts)
20. While they are at it...
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 11:30 AM
Oct 28

Release Krasnov’s COMPLETE medical records…

America deserves to know what the White House isn’t courageous or competent enough to tell us…

We’re America… We CAN handle the truth…

BaronChocula

(3,760 posts)
21. Who cares what they say
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 01:08 PM
Oct 28

They say a lot of things. Most of them false. They can't reverse the pardons since there's no law or constitutional guidance on how pardons are issued.

Smilo

(2,004 posts)
23. MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 01:32 PM
Oct 28

Whether the President May Sign a Bill by Directing That His Signature Be Affixed to It

The President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he
approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law. Rather, the President may sign a
bill within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s
signature to such a bill, for example by autopen.

July 7, 2005
MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT

]https://www.justice.gov/file/494411/dl

BidenRocks

(2,519 posts)
24. When did the Oversight Committee
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 07:19 PM
Oct 28

become Doctors?

They are so sure Pres. Biden was mentally in decline but think chump is fine.

What gives them the background in medicine to do this?

Charge them all with impersonating a doctor. Practicing without a license!

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,659 posts)
25. MaddowBlog-'I don't know who he is': Trump struggles to defend one of his most scandalous pardons
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 01:09 PM
Nov 3

The president said that he pardoned Changpeng Zhao despite not knowing who he is. If he’s lying, that’s a problem. If he wasn’t, it’s worse.

Trump: President Autopen was so far gone, he didn’t even know who he was pardoning.

Also Trump: I can’t explain my corrupt pardon for Changpeng Zhao because I have no idea who he is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-03T13:03:03.476Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/-dont-know-trump-struggles-defend-one-scandalous-pardons-rcna241547

A week later, the president sat down with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell for a “60 Minutes” interview, and the correspondent offered Trump another opportunity to explain what appeared to be a brazenly corrupt pardon. After having had a week to think about it, he still didn’t have much of an answer.

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-03T00:56:08.488Z


.....The president replied, “OK, are you ready? I don’t know who he is.”

....“Well, here’s the thing, I know nothing about it because I’m too busy,” the Republican replied, adding, “I know nothing about the guy.”....

Complicating matters further, the White House and much of the Republican Party is heavily invested in the idea that Joe Biden was so impaired during his presidency that he signed pardons — or, more to the point, used an autopen to sign pardons — without knowing anything about the beneficiary of the clemency.

Indeed, during the same “60 Minutes” interview, Trump argued, “Biden didn’t have a clue. He illegally used, as you know, a machine, the autopen, in order to give pardons to people.”

The smear is ugly and baseless, but it’s also become a political dilemma of sorts for the president slandering his predecessor. On the one hand, Trump wants the public to believe Biden didn’t know who he was pardoning. On the other, Trump also wants the public to believe that he pardoned Zhao, despite having no idea who he is.

The Republican and his team have had plenty of time to work out a coherent set of talking points on this. That they’ve failed speaks volumes.
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