Shocking new documents have just dropped, revealing a potential scandal in the twilight of Joe Biden’s presidency that could shake the very foundation of executive authority.
According to The Daily Caller, newly uncovered internal memos and emails paint a troubling picture of Biden’s final year in office, where critical decisions like clemencies may have been handed off to others, including then-Vice President Kamala Harris, while an autopen often replaced his signature.
Let’s rewind to early 2021, when a draft memo urged Biden to personally approve and sign all presidential actions, echoing practices from the Obama era.
“We recommend that YOU personally approve and hand-sign all decisions,” the memo insisted, setting a high bar for accountability. But fast-forward to the end of Biden’s term, and that standard seems to have been tossed out the window like yesterday’s news.
By early 2024, internal documents suggest Harris was increasingly green-lighting clemency actions, with one memo noting her approval often sufficed to move things forward. If true, this raises serious questions about who was really calling the shots in the Oval Office.
Over four years, Biden granted a staggering 4,245 acts of clemency—more than any president on record—yet many of these, especially toward the end, bore the mark of an autopen rather than a personal signature. Even high-profile pardons, save for the preemptive one for his son Hunter, relied on this mechanical stamp.
Take the mass commutation of roughly 2,500 inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses—internal emails reveal doubts about whether Biden himself gave the go-ahead. On one occasion, White House Staff Secretary Stef Feldman demanded proof of Biden’s approval, only to hit a wall of uncertainty.
“Michael, thoughts on how to handle this?” asked Deputy White House Counsel Tyeesha Dixon in an email, clearly scrambling for clarity. The response from Michael Posada hinted at reliance on another aide’s word about what Biden “intended,” which hardly inspires confidence in due process.
Among those released in sweeping clemency actions were individuals convicted of serious crimes, including illegal firearm possession and even two men linked to a police officer’s death. Such weighty decisions deserve the president’s full attention, not a rubber stamp or a secondhand nod.
Reports of four meetings between late December and January claim Biden gave verbal approval for broad clemency actions, but here’s the rub—there’s no hard evidence from the National Archives to confirm he was even there. Retroactive emails mention his presence, yet staff notes are conspicuously absent.
Biden’s camp has pushed back hard, with the former president calling the allegations “ridiculous and false.” But when internal memos admit it could take “days or weeks” for Biden to review clemency packages, one wonders how personal his oversight truly was.
A former Biden staffer griped to the press about “willful blindness” by critics on how broad pardons work. Forgive the skepticism, but when aides are piecing together approvals based on secondhand attestations, it’s hard to see this as anything but a bureaucratic dodge.
Now, the Trump White House is diving into this mess, launching an investigation into whether Biden’s team misled the public about his mental sharpness and whether presidential powers were exercised unconstitutionally. It’s a serious charge, and the stakes couldn’t be higher for trust in our institutions.
In a lighter but pointed jab, President Trump plans to install a “Presidential Wall of Fame” in the Rose Garden, complete with a “Biden Autopen” portrait to symbolize this chapter. It’s a witty reminder of a presidency that, in its final days, may have leaned too heavily on automation over accountability.
As this saga unfolds, the presence of Biden and Harris at Trump’s inauguration earlier this year serves as a stark backdrop to these revelations. The questions linger: Who was really in charge, and did the American people get the transparency they deserved? It’s a debate that’s far from over, and conservatives will be watching closely to ensure executive power isn’t outsourced again.