No. of Recommendations: 16
I think you possibly misunderstand the point being made by Conservatives and Republicans about the Biden autopen scandal.
I think you misunderstand the facts, which is not surprising since they mirror the right-wing conspiracies being promoted on your favorite choice of media.
Biden, like nearly all other Presidents before him, used assistants and subordinates for the preliminary vetting of pardon requests. The Biden White House says that all pardon requests were specifically and individually approved in staff meetings and witnessed by others before being executed.
There is no evidence otherwise, nor even contravening testimony from others involved.
The use of the auto-pen goes back decades; the current version was used by Harry Truman. Thomas Jefferson used a version during his Presidency at the beginning of the 1800’s.
