Trump White House Counsel David Warrington sounded the alarm as new internal emails emerged in the Biden autopen scandal.
Newly released internal emails confirm Joe Biden did not review the thousands of pardons granted at the end of his presidency.
The White House Counsel’s Office is investigating the autopen scandal and is expected to review over 1 million documents.
Just The News reported:
The Trump White House Counsel is raising serious questions about the legality of Joe Biden’s final wave of pardons and commutations, urging the Justice Department and Congress to interview the former president’s advisors to determine if he truly authorized acts of clemency signed by an autopen operated by staff, according to a memo obtained Saturday by Just the News.
“We believe that answering the questions above requires interviewing those involved,” White House Counsel David Warrington wrote in a memo to President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. “As the WHC does not have the authority to conduct interviews, we recommend that you approve making the information contained in this memorandum and the supporting materials available to entities that do have that power.
“By sharing this information with the Department of Justice and the United States Congress, we will be able to assist their investigations and provide much needed transparency to the American people,” the memo added.
New internal emails reveal Joe Biden did not review thousands of pardons granted in the final days of his presidency.
“[Biden] doesn’t review the warrants,” one of the White House lawyers said.
The New York Post reported:
President Biden’s sweeping clemency grants during his final days in office caused concern inside the West Wing and Justice Department about how to ensure his wishes were accurately implemented — and it’s unclear whether Biden himself was consulted before thousands of pardons were announced, internal emails obtained exclusively by The Post show.
The messages indicate the 46th president orally approved commutations for inmates jailed for crack cocaine offenses on Jan. 11 — but his auto-penned signature wasn’t affixed to three documents listing about 2,500 recipients until the morning of Jan. 17.
The debate over who exactly to include in the mass pardons and how to modify their sentences came to a head late on the night of Jan. 16.
Then-White House Staff Secretary Stef Feldman, a key gatekeeper of the presidential autopen, wrote to West Wing lawyers she needed evidence Biden had consented before she authorized a mechanical signature on one of the most sweeping acts of clemency in American history.
The Oversight Project broke the story about the Biden autopen scandal wide open after they discovered thousands of acts of clemency and executive actions were signed with an autopen rather than a wet signature.
Earlier this year, the Oversight Project revealed six criminals were pardoned by Biden’s autopen on December 30, 2022, while Joe Biden was vacationing and golfing in St. Croix.
You were White House Staff Secretary when Biden autopenned pardons from the golf course in USVI.
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— Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) March 17, 2025
Joe Biden defended the use of an autopen in a phone interview with the New York Times, which was released over the summer.
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.
“I made every decision,” Biden insisted during his phone interview with The Times.
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.
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