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 Bidens aides.
The committee deems void President Bidens 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 committees conclusions from its months-long investigation into Bidens use of the autopen. It alleged the committee had found a cover-up of the presidents 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
johnnyfins
(3,254 posts)Autopen for is void also. Fuck these people.
forgotmylogin
(7,938 posts)slightlv
(7,039 posts)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.
Lovie777
(21,134 posts)Chasstev365
(6,735 posts)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)since the day he took office in 2025.
sinkingfeeling
(56,780 posts)IcyPeas
(24,620 posts)bpj62
(1,061 posts)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)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)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)that Trump signed every one of the 1600 January 6th pardons with his own little grubby, sticky hand?
Baitball Blogger
(51,468 posts)Sounds like a separation of powers thingie. Besides, Biden has unlimited powers, per the Supreme Court.
Ray Bruns
(5,788 posts)Let them gnash their teeth all they want.
louis-t
(24,530 posts)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)News that is not worth reporting. Utter nonsense. This is just imitation red meat for the MAGA base.
republianmushroom
(22,078 posts)ultralite001
(2,279 posts)Already
Screw more shiny objects
Enuf is enuf
ultralite001
(2,279 posts)Release Krasnovs COMPLETE medical records
America deserves to know what the White House isnt courageous or competent enough to tell us
Were America
We CAN handle the truth
BaronChocula
(3,760 posts)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.
travelingthrulife
(3,813 posts)Leave that family alone.
tmars505
(26 posts)that would mean government checks aren't valid
Smilo
(2,004 posts)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 Presidents
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)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)The president said that he pardoned Changpeng Zhao despite not knowing who he is. If hes lying, thats a problem. If he wasnt, its worse.
Trump: President Autopen was so far gone, he didnât even know who he was pardoning.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-03T13:03:03.476Z
Also Trump: I canât explain my corrupt pardon for Changpeng Zhao because I have no idea who he is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/-dont-know-trump-struggles-defend-one-scandalous-pardons-rcna241547
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-03T00:56:08.488Z
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
.....The president replied, OK, are you ready? I dont know who he is.
....Well, heres the thing, I know nothing about it because Im 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 didnt 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 its also become a political dilemma of sorts for the president slandering his predecessor. On the one hand, Trump wants the public to believe Biden didnt 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 theyve failed speaks volumes.