Former President Joe Biden told the New York Times that he granted his staff the use of his autopen because he “had granted clemency to so many people.”
For the first time in an interview with the NYT, Biden addressed House Republican and the Trump administration’s investigations into his alleged use of the autopen to sign various documents while in the White House. The former president told the outlet that he personally approved all of the pardons and commutations at the end of his term but had directed his staff to use the autopen on clemency warrants because “we’re talking about a whole lot of people.”
“I made every decision,” Biden told the NYT of the 25 pardons and commutations in which the autopen was used from December 2024 to January 2025.
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