Fresh revelations about Joe Biden's autopen scandal paint a picture so damning that even his most loyal defenders should be squirming in their seats. Internal emails obtained by the New York Post show a White House in complete disarray, with staff frantically scrambling to figure out whether Biden actually knew what documents were being signed in his name.
The timeline alone should make every American's blood boil. On Jan. 11, Biden allegedly gave verbal approval for commuting the sentences of crack cocaine offenders. But those documents weren't signed until Jan. 17, and only after a series of panicked late-night emails between White House staff trying to establish some semblance of proper authorization.
Staff Secretary Stef Feldman, clearly the only adult in the room, demanded verification of Biden's approval before allowing the autopen to do its work. At 9:16 p.m. on Jan. 16, she wrote to Biden's aides, "I'll need an [email] from [Deputy Assistant to the President Rosa Po] confirming the president's sign-off on the specific documents when they are finalized."
But here's where it gets really ugly. Deputy White House Counsel Tyeesha Dixon forwarded concerns to Chief of Staff Michael Posada, asking, "Michael, any thoughts on how to address this?" Most tellingly, Dixon noted in her email that "the president did not review the warrants."
The expectation that autopen would handle Biden’s pardons and commutations says everything about how his White House operated and raises legitimate questions about who was really running the country. Staffers routinely mechanically applied Biden's signature to legal documents, and now we know his own counsel admitted he never actually reviewed what he was supposedly signing.
Among those benefiting from this constitutional chaos was Russell McIntosh, a 51-year-old involved in the 1999 murder of a woman and her two-year-old child in North Carolina. This is the caliber of individual Biden's team was cutting loose while the president remained blissfully unaware of the specifics.
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The Justice Department wasn't faring any better.
Here’s more from the Post:
The emails also indicate Justice Department confusion on how to carry out Biden’s orders — with the department not receiving names of the roughly 2,500 affected inmates from the White House until after the public announcement and then quibbling with the content of the files.
DOJ veterans expressed concerns about the fact that some of the commutation recipients were violent criminals — and also raised questions about whether the wording of one of three of Biden’s clemency warrants rendered the grants null and void.
That document said offenders were having their punishments reduced for “offenses described to the Department of Justice,” without any specifics.
DOJ official Elysa Wan wrote to Dixon, English and White House associate counsel DeAnna Evans on the evening of Jan. 17: “We do not know how to interpret ‘offenses described to the Department of Justice.’ Could you please clarify?”
Then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer wrote to Dixon and Evans on Jan. 18 that he too was concerned about the vague wording of the clemency warrants impacting dozens of more serious cases.
This wasn’t a fluke or a simple mistake. Biden’s team ran a shadow presidency, making major decisions while their boss stayed clueless, and in the process, they shredded any pretense of accountability. This was a full-blown constitutional crisis. Americans should be furious.
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