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Senator Eric Schmitt@SenEricSchmitt · Jul 14, 2025

Joe Biden claims he personally approved every pardon. But, after his signoff, his staff quietly added violent…

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An investigation claims President Biden's staff altered his pardon list without his knowledge, adding violent criminals and using an autopen to process them, potentially violating federal fraud, forgery, and obstruction of justice laws. Biden had approved criteria for pardons but allegedly did not individually authorize all names that were ultimately processed.

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  1. #1

    Joe Biden claims he personally approved every pardon. But, after his signoff, his staff quietly added violent criminals to the list and ran them through the autopen without telling him. The autopen scandal just got blown wide open—again.🧵

  2. #2

    Here's what happened: Biden didn't individually approve pardons. Rather, he signed off on criteria to be used in finding violent inmates he wanted to pardon or offer clemency. Biden's staff then changed the final list and ran it through the autopen.

    Alex Thompson@AlexThomp · Jul 13, 2025

    “Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons…Rather than ask Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version thru the autopen, which they saw as…routine” nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/…

  3. #3

    Biden's pardon abuses were awful. These megalomaniacal staffers made them even worse by expanding the list of murderers and rapists with executive clemency.

    Maxwell Meyer@mualphaxi · Jan 26, 2025

    So, Biden's staff didn't double check the ACLU's list of "nonviolent drug offenders" and gave clemency to a drug lord in Connecticut who murdered an 8 year old boy and his mother to stop them from testifying. CT Sen. Blumenthal : "someone dropped the ball... This was a really vicious murder that changed our laws"

  4. #4

    They may have broken several federal laws: - Fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1001) - Forgery (18 U.S.C. § 471) - Misuse of Government Property (18 U.S.C. § 641) - Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371) - Obstruction of Justice (18 U.S.C. § 1503 or § 1512)

  5. #5

    To that end, my investigation into constitutionality and legality of these autopen pardons by Biden staffers will continue. More to come on this soon.

    Senator Eric Schmitt@SenEricSchmitt · Jun 26, 2025

    🚨I just took a first-of-its-kind act on the Biden autopen coverup. Using my authority as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, I have submitted a “special access request” to Archivist Marco Rubio to obtain sealed documents. It may blow this whole thing open. 🧵