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Former President Joe Biden, in an interview with the New York Times, said that he personally made every clemency and pardon decision during the end of his presidency.
Feldman has not yet been asked to appear before the committee’s majority and minority counsel for a transcribed interview.
President Donald Trump has claimed that the thousands of pardons signed during the Biden administration are void, due to alleged autopen usage.
Joe Biden said every pardon and commutation he issued was his decision, calling Republican "liars" for alleging his aides illegally used an autopen.
Trump said that the autopen use is "one of the biggest scandals" in "50 to 100 years" because Biden "knew nothing about what he was signing."
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Former President Joe Biden is pushing back against intensifying scrutiny over his administration’s use of an autopen — a mechanical
Lost in today’s partisan volleys, though, is that a president doesn’t need to sign anything to dole out clemency.
A 1983 article in The Washingtonian traced the autopen’s presidential use back to the “polygraph” device Thomas Jefferson invented to have his writing simultaneously copied. “Every President from Kennedy on has relied on the Autopen to help satisfy the enormous demand for his signature,” the article stated.