President Trump on Monday spoke to reporters in the Oval Office during a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to discuss Ukraine.
A reporter asked President Trump about the Biden autopen scandal after the New York Times confirmed Biden did not sign off on all pardons.
Joe Biden defended the use of an autopen in an interview with the New York Times.
The New York Times also reviewed some of the emails that the National Archives handed over to the Trump DOJ as part of their investigation into the autopen scandal.
The emails revealed that Biden’s staffers made decisions to sign the pardons with the autopen without directly hearing the orders from Joe Biden.
Joe Biden told the New York Times that he “orally granted all the pardons and commutations issued at the end of his term” and lashed out at President Trump as a “liar” for claiming the autopen was used without his authorization.
It was revealed that Joe Biden did not approve of each name for the pardons – AND after changes were made about the specific inmates, Biden did NOT sign off on the revised list. Rather, his aides just ran the final version through the autopen without Biden’s approval.
“Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people, he and aides confirmed. Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence,” The New York Times reported.
“Even after Mr. Biden made that decision, one former aide said, the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates, resulting in small changes to the list. Rather than ask Mr. Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version through the autopen, which they saw as a routine procedure, the aide said,” according to The Times.
President Trump called the autopen scandal the biggest scandal we’ve had in 100 years.
“I guarantee [Biden] knew nothing about what he was signing,” Trump said.
WATCH:
President Trump on the autopen SCANDAL:
“The autopen I think, is maybe one of the biggest scandals that we’ve had in 50 to 100 years…
I guarantee [Biden] knew nothing about what he was signing.” pic.twitter.com/3fLwsCqYHV
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 14, 2025
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