President Trump on Monday spoke to reporters within the Oval Workplace throughout a bilateral assembly with NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte to debate Ukraine.
A reporter requested President Trump in regards to the Biden autopen scandal after the New York Occasions confirmed Biden didn’t log out on all pardons.
Joe Biden defended the usage of an autopen in an interview with the New York Times.
The New York Occasions additionally reviewed a number of the emails that the Nationwide Archives handed over to the Trump DOJ as a part of their investigation into the autopen scandal.
The emails revealed that Biden’s staffers made selections to signal the pardons with the autopen with out instantly listening to the orders from Joe Biden.
Joe Biden informed the New York Occasions that he “orally granted all of the pardons and commutations issued on the finish of his time period” and lashed out at President Trump as a “liar” for claiming the autopen was used with out his authorization.
It was revealed that Joe Biden didn’t approve of every title for the pardons – AND after adjustments had been made in regards to the particular inmates, Biden did NOT log out on the revised checklist. Somewhat, his aides simply ran the ultimate model via the autopen with out Biden’s approval.
“Mr. Biden didn’t individually approve every title for the specific pardons that utilized to massive numbers of individuals, he and aides confirmed. Somewhat, after intensive dialogue of various attainable standards, he signed off on the requirements he needed for use to find out which convicts would qualify for a discount in sentence,” The New York Occasions reported.
“Even after Mr. Biden made that call, one former aide mentioned, the Bureau of Prisons saved offering extra details about particular inmates, leading to small adjustments to the checklist. Somewhat than ask Mr. Biden to maintain signing revised variations, his employees waited after which ran the ultimate model via the autopen, which they noticed as a routine process, the aide mentioned,” based on The Occasions.
President Trump referred to as the autopen scandal the largest scandal we’ve had in 100 years.
“I assure [Biden] knew nothing about what he was signing,” Trump mentioned.
WATCH:
President Trump on the autopen SCANDAL:
“The autopen I believe, is perhaps one of many largest scandals that we’ve had in 50 to 100 years…
I assure [Biden] knew nothing about what he was signing.” pic.twitter.com/3fLwsCqYHV
— Trump Warfare Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 14, 2025
