The House Oversight Committee is investigating the use of the autopen by Biden officials as allegations grow that President Joe Biden had little idea of some of the actions taken under his name, from executive orders to pardons. Now, the Committee has disclosed that at least one senior official warned that he had “no idea” what the parameters were for Biden’s blanket pardons and that the public was being misled about the pardons only applying to non-violent individuals.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Brad Weinsheimer told the Office of White House Counsel they needed an additional statement from the President as to his intent and the scope of the pardon:
“I think the language ‘offenses described to the Department of Justice’ in the warrant is highly problematic and in order to resolve its meaning appropriately, and consistent with the President’s intent, we will need a statement or direction from the President as to how to interpret the language…I have no idea what interpretation the incoming Administration will give to the warrant, but they may find this interpretation attractive, as it gives effect to the language but does not go beyond the four corners of the warrant.”
Weinsheimer also flagged how even the stated intent of Biden in barring violent individuals was being disregarded due to the ill-defined criteria:
“One other important note – in communication about the commutations, the White House has described those who received commutations as people convicted of non-violent drug offenses. I think you should stop saying that because it is untrue or at least misleading… As you know, even with the exceedingly limited review we were permitted to do of the individuals we believed you might be considering for commutation action, we initially identified 19 that were highly problematic.”
House Oversight Chairman James Comer is pursuing this investigation despite opposition from Democratic members and, of course, many in the media. Yet, there is mounting evidence that Biden was clueless on major decisions made in his Administration, including signing a major executive order on natural gas exports. In this latest controversy, a veteran Justice official did not have a clue about the scope of the pardons as staff members just compiled lists of people whom they wanted to include in the presidential order.
What is particularly disconcerting is how accountability for any abuse is made more difficult by the large number of staff contributing to these lists and lack of clearly defined decision makers. With Biden abdicating his own responsibility, staffers were allowed to effectively add names to a signed blank page, exercising a presidential power with the level of circumspection of an inter-office memo.
In one breath they say Trump is illiterate and in the next breath they tell us he was a nefarious schemer when he overvalued his property. Right. A guy who built sky scrapers in New York City is illiterate. Someone who continues to spew such a weak argument is the one who is illiterate.
This is the same person who ignores a pardon for a man who raped and stabbed his wife and then proceeded to kill her baby. Every comment is penned with blood from a heart of stone to further her fascination with herself. The murders be damned in her quest for attention.
TiT,
I actually had to read a few of the annony moron’s comments to understand what it was you were saying.
It does seem our leftist friends are oh, so desperate to deflect from the topic at hand.
For Republicans, every accusation is a confession. Remember Trump pardoned all J6 protesters without knowing anything about most of them and bypassed the DoJ completely. He has done the same with many other pardons, and is selling pardons for campaign donations.
“For Republicans, every accusation is a confession. Remember Trump pardoned all J6 protesters without knowing anything about most of them and bypassed the DoJ completely. He has done the same with many other pardons, and is selling pardons for campaign donations.”
Folks, what you have here is the textbook example of what psychologists call “projection”. This person has taken what Joe Biden actually did, and completely and incorrectly inverted it to apply to Trump. This is so obvious that I almost have to assume that this comment is meant in jest.
Says the guy who loves projection
“Says the guy who loves projection”
Gigi, what does that even mean? Is that supposed to somehow support your initial garbage comment?
Not all. As Carter did with the four Puerto Rican terrorists who had smuggled handguns into the House Visitors Gallery, and shot five Congressmen, Trump merely commuted the sentences of 14 J6 rioters
At least he was the President making that judgement, not a staff person.
Turls, Comer is an idiot who is pursuing this to deflect from the corrupt and illegal workings of trump and his administration. As are you.
And just remember, Jon, trump will continue to leave you hanging while letting Piro get her drank on during press conferences. You’re getting choaded.
“Turls, Comer is an idiot who is pursuing this to deflect from the corrupt and illegal workings of trump and his administration. As are you.
And just remember, Jon, trump will continue to leave you hanging while letting Piro get her drank on during press conferences. You’re getting choaded.”
Gigi, are you of all people actually trying to throw shade over drinking? Have you seen the empty bottles littering the floor of your basement apartment lately?
Can you reply to any question without using the word “Trump”?
Trump lives rent free in their heads. Even when Trump leaves office, I don’t think they’ll ever recover mentally.
THAT’S FOR SURE.
“Trump lives rent free in their heads. Even when Trump leaves office, I don’t think they’ll ever recover mentally.”
If that is the case (quite probable) I would encourage all such people to move to Canada, establish residence, and enter the state-sponsored euthanasia program there to end their pain. I would even be willing to contribute a modest sum toward bus fare…
How disrespectful of you to post a comment like that on the blog host’s site, the First Amendment notwithstanding.
What’s incredible is that even after the departure of both Biden and Harris, where are the real tell-all books from the true insiders? Omerta can’t be that strong among these crooks and liars. Perhaps they’re all lawyered up awaiting the inevitable?
Anon: You provoke an intriguing theory. In the past, the tell-all books were gossipy stories of little permanent interest. Given the corruption within the Biden-Harris administration, a tell-all book would likely have evidentiary value to a grand jury and court, hence its author might be dissuaded from writing it in the first place, lest she or he wind up with a suitcase full of subpoenas and legal bills through the ceiling.
jjc posted: its author might be dissuaded from writing it in the first place, lest she or he wind up with a suitcase full of subpoenas and legal bills through the ceiling.
A point of curiosity jjc: For the vast majority of these Soviet Democrat culprits, their crimes and malfeasance were committed while they were cosplaying as being diligent civil service lackeys acting in their official capacity.
As such, aren’t most of their legal bills paid by the taxpayer?
” a tell-all book would likely have evidentiary value to a grand jury and court, hence its author might be dissuaded from writing it in the first place”
Any insider planning to write such an account would be well advised to keep those plans secret, and write under a strictly observed pseudonym, to avoid being Epsteined.
Hmmm. If anyone was foolish enough to disregard that advice, could their grave be decorated with a “tomestone”?
Ok boys and girls, let’s get back to the subject for today and not stray off into never-never land.
Are the pardons valid? and what did Joe know and what did he not know?
This is going to get really messy if Comer’s committee gives two of the lower-level 5th amendment invokers immunity. This will force them to fully and truthfully testify about what actually happened with regard to the pardons. So, stay tuned…
Ironically, the Biden administration may have done some good in bringing a lot of these issues into the mainstream of legal and political thought. Until Biden, we had been blessed with honorable men and women serving their nation in administrations led by honorable and trustworthy men who were elected president. Biden, of course, altered that procession of fine people and patriots immensely and for decades, perhaps centuries, to come.
As we clean house and exorcise the political demons from our sacred national shrine, let us focus mostly on finding out everything that occurred, how it was caused, who caused it, and what did it do. The idea of retribution or revenge should be secondary as the likelihood of the same people ever being able to resume their treachery is nil.
But finding the facts and dealing with them is essential, if for no other reason than to deter anyone in the future from considering the same path. As Frederick Douglass said, “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” It seems Congress has a lot of useful things to do with what has been learned from the corrupt and evil Biden administration.
@jjc
Very much agreed. Retribution can come in the form of ensuring it never happens at that level again, it was sheer madness. 👍🏼
You are calling Jackson, Grant, Nixon and Trump “honorable and trustworthy men”. Are you insane? Even Trumps biggest supporters don’t believe he is honorable and trustworthy. They love Trump because he is not.
“You are calling Jackson, Grant, Nixon and Trump “honorable and trustworthy men”. Are you insane? Even Trumps biggest supporters don’t believe he is honorable and trustworthy. They love Trump because he is not.”
This comment actually makes sense to some dimwits. Scary thought.
It makes sense to people who understand history.
If that makes sense to you, then your case of Trump derangement syndrome has rotted out what was left of your brain.
what was left of your brain.
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Nice retort.
Correction: not dimwits, but rather demwits. 😊
Ano
Jackson, Grant, Nixon
is part of history you nit-wit.
Anonymous- at 10:145 am: If Trump is not trustworthy, it is hard to explain why so many hard-headed business men have trusted him over the years.
As to the others on your list:
Jackson used to be the most popular President among Democrats. They named the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinners after him. They even made a movie about him.
Grant led the country through the difficult transition back to being a whole country. He was trusted in both the North and South in a way that no one else could be. Like Eisenhower, he was a successful military leader. Eisenhower saved Europe, while Grant saved the Union.
Nixon led the country through the difficult days of the late ’60s — race riots, student riots, inflation and the Vietnam War, none of which he was responsible for. Voters in 49 States declared that they did trust him.
Speaking of Biden. Has anyone seen or heard from him?
As I write this I am in Rehoboth Beach, DE, about 2 blocks from his summer mansion. No sign of him or his entourage. No Secret Service anywhere. Streets are open. Actually, streets are deserted because of the weather.
Dust off 11:21 am-he is lost in his garage. A team is now gearing up to go find him.
JJC,
Well said. I would like to see all the corruption and wrong doing exposed. Then Congress to act on it to make sure it never happens again. As for punishment, I think I would let the pardons stand. Exposed to the truth, let them suffer shame knowing the whole world knows of their corruption and wrong doing for historians to write about.
I’ve felt from the very beginning of Pres Trump’s first term that one of greatest gifts is the ability to force deceitful Rinos, MSM, Judges, teachers,DOJ, FBI, et al to publicly expose their true beliefs and commit actions which they can’t retract. The only problem is part of the quotation…”you can fool some of the people all the time.”
” Until Biden, we had been blessed with honorable men and women serving their nation in administrations led by honorable and trustworthy men who were elected president. Biden, of course, altered that procession of fine people and patriots immensely and for decades, perhaps centuries, to come. ”
Biden was a colossal $h1th3@d3d dunce, and his minions were political criminals of the first water but you surely cannot be serious in suggesting that everything in Fedworld prior to the Biden administration was ambrosia, immaculately pure and beyond reproach, and that misbehavior of this kind was created out of whole cloth by members of that administration? That is how your post reads. Did you overdose on Prozac?
Whether or not Joe Biden, his Administration, or the Democrats ever are called to account for any of this is becoming increasingly irrelevant even as the UTTER MORAL DEPRAVITY OF THEIR POLITICAL LEADERSHIP BECOMES EVER MORE OBVIOUS. OF THE EXECRABLE BIDEN ORGY OF CORRUPTION, PARDONS & CLEMENCIES (and, yes, please follow the money), Senator Tom Cotton put it best on his website on January 14, 2025: “(Biden) hand-picked 37 murderers to save from death row. Unlike the rest of his pardons and commutations, he can’t hide behind the excuses of staff incompetence, personal arrogance, or the affection of a father. He knew who he was pardoning, and he knew the evil crimes they committed.
So, I would like to discuss in a little more detail just two of the depraved savages that Joe Biden saved from death row. The first is Anthony Battle, who broke into his ex-wife’s home and raped her, stabbed her to death with a butcher knife. She was heard screaming QUOTE “help me, help me, rape.” She was a United States Marine—and Anthony Battle raped and murdered her. Yet that murder wasn’t even the crime for which he was on federal death row.
He wasn’t done. While he was in prison, he beat a 31-year-old correctional officer to death with a hammer, hitting him in the back the head three times until he was soaked in the officer’s blood. The correctional officer hadn’t even done nothing to provoke or confront Battle—Battle beat him to death anyway. When he was given a chance to apologize for the killing, Battle said that the officer QUOTE “died like a dog.”
This is why we have the death penalty for correctional officers—so inhumane monsters who are stuck in prison for life have some reason not to start open-hunting season on correctional officers.
This is the man that Joe Biden decided deserved mercy two days before Christmas. A man who raped and murdered a U.S. Marine and bludgeoned a peace officer to death.
Joe Biden also saved the life of Marvin Gabrion, another rapist and serial killer. While facing trial for raping 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman, yes that is right, he was on trial for raping a 19-year-old girl, Gabrion kidnapped her, bound her body with duct tape, he chained her to a concrete block, and he threw her into a lake while she was still breathing. Her last moments filled with terror and agony.
In addition, he also killed her 11-month-old baby. 11 months old. He allegedly confessed in prison that he QUOTE “killed the baby because there was nowhere else to put it.”
This is the man Joe Biden also decided deserved clemency two days before Christmas.” https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/speeches/democrats-refuse-to-condemn-bidens-commutations-for-37-death-row-inmates
So Biden commuted the death sentences based on a belief that the death sentence is inhumane, bringing the US into alignment with all the other developed countries of the world.
These criminals now face life without parole in supermax jails where they have no contact with other human beings except the guards. Many have said that this is a fate worse than death.
On the other hand you fail to mention the large number of J6 criminals pardoned and released by Trump, who are now back in prison on other charges, many involving the sexual exploitation of children.
There are now children who have been sexually violated by people released from prison by Trump.
In other words, Trump is complicit in the sexual violation of children, something that he is quite familiar with unfortunately.
Here is a very short list.
Theodore Middendorf: Middendorf pleaded guilty to destruction of government property on January 6th. He was sentenced in 2024 to 19 years in prison for sexually assaulting a seven year old and remains in prison.
David Daniel: According to prosecutors, Daniel was part of the attempt to break through a barricaded Senate door and pleaded guilty to resisting police officers. He remains in custody after Trump’s pardon on possession of child sexual abuse material charges brought in 2024.
Andrew Taake: According to the FBI, Taake assaulted Capitol Police officers with pepper spray and a metal whip. He was sentenced to over six years in prison for his role in the insurrection. After Trump’s pardon, he was rearrested on charges of sexual soliciting a minor.
Edward Kelley: Kelley was one of the first insurrectionists to breach the Capitol and was found guilty on several charges related to January 6th. He was convicted on charges of plotting to murder the FBI agents who investigated him in the January 6th case and is scheduled to be sentenced in July.
Shane Jason Woods: Woods pleaded guilty to assaulting police and a press photographer. After Trump’s pardon, Woods was convicted in April for multiple counts including reckless homicide and driving under the influence in 2022.
Zachary Alam: Alam was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in the insurrection. After Trump’s pardon, Alam was rearrested in May for an alleged home invasion and theft.
Brent John Holdridge: Holdridge pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building on January 6th. He was arrested in May for stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of industrial copper wire and faces charges of burglary, grand theft and possession of stolen property
Taylor Taranto: Taranto was convicted of several crimes related to January 6th including possession of an unregistered firearm. He was arrested in 2023 for illegal gun possession and making a threat to blow up the National Institute of Standards and Technology and was convicted this May.
What exactly does that have to do with the proven pedophilia of Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats?
None of those people were arrested for crimes they committed after Trump showed them clemency.
And Trump’s acts of clemency had no effect on their liability for their previous crimes.
So what exactly is the point here? Bad guys can be interested in politics?
“None of those people were arrested for crimes they committed after Trump showed them clemency.”
I seem to recall that there was at least one example of recidivism (can’t put my finger on the specifics at the moment). Not that one, or even a small number of such would invalidate your point.
I find the new Democrat talking point about “illiterate” Trump fascinating. It is obviously inane and lacks any connection with reality, but damn if they won’t push it anyway. Until the next talking point comes along. What a sad life our trolls lead.
Fascinating? How so?
“Fascinating? How so?”
Because it’s so obviously incorrect given even a cursory inspection. But you folks believe that boys can become girls, so I suppose your grasp of reality is already questionable at best.
Talking point? He’s literally on film struggling to read like a 5th grader. Every time he reads a prepared statement the whole world sees it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/donald-trump-struggles-to-read-script-in-latest-appearance-as-dementia-fears-sparked/ar-AA1ANYa5
He may even be suffering from early signs of dementia.
“Talking point? He’s literally on film struggling to read like a 5th grader. Every time he reads a prepared statement the whole world sees it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/donald-trump-struggles-to-read-script-in-latest-appearance-as-dementia-fears-sparked/ar-AA1ANYa5
He may even be suffering from early signs of dementia.”
You and your ilk completely dismissed the screamingly obvious decline and senility of Joe Biden for years. Why do you think that you suddenly have any credibility now? Hint, you don’t.
Not new. It has been obvious that Trump is functionally illiterate for at least a decade.
“Not new. It has been obvious that Trump is functionally illiterate for at least a decade.”
Here in the real world, you have to actually supply facts when you make an obviously questionable assertion. Just a pro tip. Also, since you have no facts to back up your lie, you can now slink back to the dank hole that is your sad life.
Why entertain any remarks from these bananas regarding President Trump when the article is clearly about the Biden administration? There is no Democrat party.
George W Bush took the high ground and the scum destroyed him slice by slice. You have to push back, not let them define the narrative.
@anny / “George W Bush took the high ground and the scum destroyed him slice by slice.“
Theirs no high road or low road, this is an article about the corruption of the Biden administration! The Bananas want to sidetrack the discussion, don’t bite. They’re the same crew each day with the same narrative, their empty vessels who got their azz’s handed to them by the people of the United States in the last election and have nothing to offer other the NY’s Madmani.
George W. Bush was a weakling/Daddy’s boy who let Daddy’s pals Cheney and Rummy lead him by the nose.
Because Trump is in the same boat as Biden when it comes to staff handing him things that he has no understanding of. Every time there is an EO signing he asks what’s in it. He once claimed to be a “stable Genius” he should be well aware of what he’s signing before he does.
“Because Trump is in the same boat as Biden when it comes to staff handing him things that he has no understanding of. Every time there is an EO signing he asks what’s in it. He once claimed to be a “stable Genius” he should be well aware of what he’s signing before he does.”
Trump can actually read the title of the executive orders. That’s already leaps and bounds beyond what senile Biden was capable of.
Stable genius still bothers you, huh? What thin skin our trolls must have.
Good gosh there anon, you sure crazy to anyone reading it knows you’re crazy. Try a different tact.
Correct, there is no democrat party as of old, but there are well-funded gangs of ideologues who will do anything to achieve their destruction of our original nation. People like soros and others will fund these assorted groups of malcontents and fanatics so, no, it is not good to just ignore them. It is better to keep flashing the blaze of sunlight on all that they do an educate the public as to just what their endgame is.
Endgame is money and keep the pipelines open to federal and State money via elections, whim.
“I don’t recall”, Hilary Rohan Clinton.
As they say, follow the money. It seems many or most of these Biden thieves have been careless about covering their tracks. Like even Comey and Brennan, two pros, were careless.
Because President Trump was never supposed to win.
“even Comey and Brennan, two pros, were careless.”
Being a whore does not automatically confer professional status.
How will the Democrat party even survive the complete collapse and failure of the Biden regime? Everything about this man is a lie. It’s all coming apart in real time.
Easy. They, and the media, just ignore it as long as possible and hope it doesn’t really catch fire and, if it does, they throw up a smakescreen about how the real scandal is people Trump has pardoned.
The media will ignore it because they already know it’s just a distraction. Biden will never be prosecuted or charged. This is just a fever dream for Trump cultists still stuck on 2020 conspiracy theories and political theatre.
“The media will ignore it because they already know it’s just a distraction. Biden will never be prosecuted or charged. This is just a fever dream for Trump cultists still stuck on 2020 conspiracy theories and political theatre.”
Biden will be dead within a year. Nobody will care when it happens. But there are plenty of people around him that deserve to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
“Biden will be dead within a year. Nobody will care when it happens”
Not true. Some of us will cheer.
Biden committed no crimes.
“Biden committed no crimes.”
Biden stole classified documents for decades. He illegally stored his stolen classified documents in insecure locations for decades. Silly me, I thought that these were crimes.
And that’s not even getting into the details about the Biden Crime Family as a whole. Was their entire crime syndicate based on access to stolen classified documents? Signs all point to yes.
This is just a fever dream for Trump cultists still stuck on 2020 conspiracy theories and political theatre.
Ah yes… cultist conspiracy theories: “Our Trump-Russia Dossier is actually US intelligence agency evidence Trump conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election”.
Or that old favorite: “That isn’t a Biden Bribery Laptop – that’s nothing but Putin election disinformation”.
Your sophomoric projection would normally make one think you and your entire family need the help of a battalion of psychiatrists.
But in reality, you aren’t mentally ill: you’re just blatantly dishonest, corrupt, and completely lacking in character and anything resembling a human soul.
The coverup only works until it doesn’t. People saw through the lie that was Biden.
Inflation was handled without a recession, unemployment was down, stock market was up, people without medical coverage was down. International reputation was salvaged. How can anyone say Biden had a poor presidency?
“Inflation was handled without a recession, unemployment was down, stock market was up, people without medical coverage was down. International reputation was salvaged. How can anyone say Biden had a poor presidency?”
Inflation outpaced economic growth for years. That means negative growth. That means a recession. They literally had to change the definition of recession to keep one from being declared under Biden. The rest of your crap is just as ridiculous.
He had to drop out of his own failing reelection campaign. His vice president still lost by a landslide. He left office with an approval rating in the low 30s or even the upper 20s. Yeah, exactly how can anyone say that Biden had a poor presidency?
In 2019 Frenzy riddled Democrats told us preemptive pardons were unconstitutional!
No, they didn’t. Name three Democrats who said that.
Why don’t you go back to legal insurrection and ply your annoying style there.
Why don’t you then answer the question. So who are they?
Not my comment to defend. Enjoy your sad life of internet trolling.
Anon 8:55 wins.
Good for her. Is the prize an extra serving of ramen?
“Good for her. Is the prize an extra serving of ramen?”
It should be an extra helping of h0r$3$h1t, which she has evidently developed quite an appetite for, judging from the copious amounts of that substance that she incessantly spews all over this comment space.
Why would it matter. Biden has immunity just like Trump. They can’t do anything about it. This is just a distraction from Trump’s decreasing polls and policiy failures.
“Why would it matter. Biden has immunity just like Trump. They can’t do anything about it. This is just a distraction from Trump’s decreasing polls and policiy failures.”
Immunity from what? Biden is absolutely not immune from charges due to his demonstrated crimes (example: stolen classified documents over decades) And while there may not be a Biden crime from the misuse of the autopen, we can undo the egregious pardons of murderers and traitors that happened as Biden was shuffling out the back door of the White House.
What decreasing polls? Among reputable polls (you know, those who foolishly didn’t predict a Kamalalala win) Trump is well above his same levels of his first term, and well above the level of Biden during the corresponding time in his disastrous term.
Also, is it asking too much for the pathetic drive-by trolls here to use a spellchecker? I mean, honestly. We’ve only had them for decades.
What demonstrated crimes? He’s never been charged with anything and Republicans could never prove he did anything criminal. Besides thanks to Trump Biden would be immune.
Using an autopen is not a crime. Pardoning murderers and traitors is not a crime either. Trump pardoned J6 felons who assualted law enforcement with deadly weapons.
Trump is still polling badly on his biggest issues. He’s not improving the economy and his immigration crackdown is souring on a majority of voters, especially independents. That doesn’t bode well for Republicans in the midterms.
“What demonstrated crimes? He’s never been charged with anything and Republicans could never prove he did anything criminal. Besides thanks to Trump Biden would be immune.”
Biden stole classified documents over decades and stored them in insecure locations for decades. He was not charged only because the prosecutor realized that, given Biden’s screamingly obvious senility, the jurors would probably give him a pass. Trump should resurrect the case, given what they tried to do to him.
“Using an autopen is not a crime. Pardoning murderers and traitors is not a crime either. Trump pardoned J6 felons who assualted law enforcement with deadly weapons.”
Trump commuted sentences. Big difference. And most of these people were victims of an out of control Biden DOJ that was overcharging and persecuting people. One guy even committed suicide over his overcharge. I guess you’re okay with that.
“Trump is still polling badly on his biggest issues. He’s not improving the economy and his immigration crackdown is souring on a majority of voters, especially independents. That doesn’t bode well for Republicans in the midterms.”
Presented as facts without evidence. Wishful thinking at its best. Democrat party favorability is somewhere south of 20% and falling. Republican voter registration is through the roof. This doesn’t bode well for Democrats in the midterms.
“Biden stole classified documents over decades and stored them in insecure locations for decades. ”
He wasn’t charged because he returned them and they were not “stolen”. Nobody knew they were missing until Trump’s own classified documents scandal became the focus on the media.
They couldn’t charge him because they did not have any evidence that it was intentional. Trump on the other hand had plenty of evidence that it was intentional.
“Trump commuted sentences. Big difference.”
He also pardoned violent J6 criminals.
“And most of these people were victims of an out of control Biden DOJ that was overcharging and persecuting people. One guy even committed suicide over his overcharge. I guess you’re okay with that.”
Victims? That is hilarious. The majority of those “victims” filmed themselves commiting the crimes they were charged with. All pled guilty to their charges. I’m ok with prosecuting criminals, especially those who filmed themselves and proudly admitting they committed their crimes.
“Presented as facts without evidence.”
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
He’s underwater by double digits on the economy, immigration, trade, inflation, etc. Even Rassmussen the conservative poll pegs him as dead even and that’s not good.
“He wasn’t charged because he returned them and they were not “stolen”. Nobody knew they were missing until Trump’s own classified documents scandal became the focus on the media.”
Biden stole the documents from secured areas. How else did they appear in his garage, his office, all of the other places where they found the classified documents? Did the leprechauns put them there?
“They couldn’t charge him because they did not have any evidence that it was intentional. Trump on the other hand had plenty of evidence that it was intentional.”
Intent is not relevant with respect to classified documents. You are talking out of your rear end again.
Trump as president had the right to his documents. Most were packed and shipped to his residence without his knowledge. Biden as senator and vice president had no justification to possess the classified documents that he stole and stored in completely insecure locations. Period.
“All pled guilty to their charges.”
Absolutely false. Why would you lie so baldly?
Joe Biden pardoned unrepentant murderers. One guy even killed a mother an her two year old child, just to cover up his drug ring. Another was a judge that, for kickbacks, wrongfully imprisoned teenagers for years. Are you sure that you want to go down this road?
“He’s underwater by double digits on the economy, immigration, trade, inflation, etc.”
Nate Silver has become a joke. Mixing various polls of varying quality does not improve the product. When you add a little bit of dog poop to a quart of ice cream, what do you have?
“Even Rassmussen the conservative poll pegs him as dead even and that’s not good.”
Rasmussen (learn to spell the name, idiot) is not “conservative”, it’s reality based. A president near parity is not a bad thing. Biden was deeply underwater yet magically did okay in his midterms. You don’t have a point here, as usual.
The special prosecutor (?) denied to charge Mr. Biden because he was a frail old man with a poor memory. It was not in his authority to make that decision. Same as James Comey with the classified email investigation on Clinton (see a pattern here). I have been wondering if the current justice department can take a look at that and file charges. I believe Trump is above that level although he should not be based on what they did to him.
The pardons could be held to have been invalid because they did not specify the crimes for which sentences were being commuted. That is the first criticism made by the DOJ official. “Offenses described to the” DOJ is not clear in its meaning. This has nothing to do with the use of the autopen but is an infirmity in the language of the pardons themselves.
Saw that too. But when I read for “ast and future crimes” as part of the pardon for Hunter Biden, I thought …
A pardon does not have to specify what crime was committed. It can just specify the individual to be pardoned.
Nothing in the constitution requires a pardon must have specific reasons for a president to issue one.
“Nothing in the constitution requires a pardon must have specific reasons for a president to issue one.”
It certainly helps make the case that you’re not a senile fool being taken advantage of by his aides, however.
The same thing can be said of Trump. He’s an illiterate narcissist and he relies heavily on his staff to do the heavy lifting for him. That is why goes on a rant whenever he struggles to read what is on teleprompters and prepared statements. All that is needed to prove the assertion is to watch him try to read from a prepared statement. He struggles to read like a 5th grader every time.
“The same thing can be said of Trump. He’s an illiterate narcissist and he relies heavily on his staff to do the heavy lifting for him. That is why goes on a rant whenever he struggles to read what is on teleprompters and prepared statements. All that is needed to prove the assertion is to watch him try to read from a prepared statement. He struggles to read like a 5th grader every time.”
Presented as facts without evidence. Here you go again with your new talking point. You’re like a child with a new toy. It doesn’t even make sense, but you’re going to go with it anyway.
The DOJ official obviously thought it mattered.
“A pardon does not have to specify what crime was committed. It can just specify the individual to be pardoned.”
Please provide some support for this false statement. By definition a pardon is issued to a specific person for a specific unlawful act. It is not a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
,*. WOL, yes , this pardon trick must be taken to SCOTUS.
Except it kinda does, IMO. Article II, Section 2, which grants the President the authority to “grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States.” What offenses/CRIMES against the US was being done that needed to be pardoned or be given a reprieve? If the President of the United States doesn’t really know what alleged crimes an individual had committed, how could there be a pardon?
“Talk Of ‘Preemptive’ Pardons By Trump Raises Questions: What Can He Do?” – NPR
From the article:
“In an email, Crouch, author of The Presidential Pardon Power, says that “someone must have committed a federal offense, but as soon as that happens, the president can grant them clemency. He does not need to wait until the alleged offender is charged, stands trial, and so on.””
Daniel,
I was wondering the same thing myself, what was the crime the pardon is needed for?
*. The crime ,UF, is treason. The list of pardons no crime known but includes Hunter are the usual suspects. The question is: did Verbal Kint bag the big guy? He did. It has not been discovered and progress is slow as old leaks are uncovered but out of time.
The crime is treason and Joe’s limp is feigned using drugs. Patel, Bondi and Gabbard need help but Gabbard’s on the scent.
Grampa Joe may have bagged the big guy.
*. Daniel, I think that’s the point. Pardon implies a crime and sentence that can be either pardoned or commuted.
Do you have a list of names of pardons without a known crime? Let’s look at it.
Yes, but the people who helped foment this crime can absolutely be prosecuted.
Dude you can’t argue with MAGAs, they are just too dumb.
“Dude you can’t argue with MAGAs, they are just too dumb.”
Gigi, do you really think that you’re one to make fun of dumb people? Don’t you remember when your guidance counselor couldn’t stop laughing over your SAT scores?
That’s weird, because everyone knows Trump is illiterate. He can barely read what’s in front of him. He signs EO’s without knowing what is in them. Have you noticed how he always asks what the EO’ say? Trump reads at 5th grade level and can barely understand what is put in front of him. That’s why he goes on a rant every time. To hide the fact that he didn’t understand what he read.
“That’s weird, because everyone knows Trump is illiterate. He can barely read what’s in front of him. He signs EO’s without knowing what is in them. Have you noticed how he always asks what the EO’ say? Trump reads at 5th grade level and can barely understand what is put in front of him. That’s why he goes on a rant every time. To hide the fact that he didn’t understand what he read.”
This is hilarious coming from someone who didn’t question the obvious senility of the disastrous Joe Biden for years. Cheap fakes, amiright?
I questioned his senility. That still doesn’t change the fact that he was still president and anything put in front of him to sign like Trump. Trump is given EO’s to sign without knowing who wrote them. He didn’t write them and that’s for sure.
“I questioned his senility. That still doesn’t change the fact that he was still president and anything put in front of him to sign like Trump. Trump is given EO’s to sign without knowing who wrote them. He didn’t write them and that’s for sure.”
Presented as fact without evidence. Biden was awake for two hours a day, on a good day. Trump’s schedule barely includes sleep. Don’t even try to compare the two. Biden was a disaster on every level. You should be begging us to not exile anyone stupid enough to have voted for Biden and especially his clown veep.
Ummm… this is a tough one to respond to. So who do you think wrote the EOs then?
Folks this why the USA sucks at education, but big on indoctrination.
Trump didn’t write them. If he can barely read it’s guaranteed he can hardly write. Trump’s staff are writing EO’s and he’s just rubber stamping them and gloats about them after signing.
“Trump didn’t write them. If he can barely read it’s guaranteed he can hardly write. Trump’s staff are writing EO’s and he’s just rubber stamping them and gloats about them after signing.”
Presented as facts without evidence. Where did this new talking point come from all of the sudden? It’s laughable in its ignorance.
Poor libs, their talking points are failing with the American voters.
Keep it fools.
Oh, little man, you’ve obviously never worked in an executive position or even been around one. Believe it or not, Trump didn’t even TYPE it himself…. that is why there is assistants to the President. They type them up, put them in the official “binder”, then are given individually to him for signing, with the assistant presenting it to him and stating the title of the binder he is presenting. Of course he know the CONTENT of each item he signs. PDJT has been an Executive for most of his life – this is how it’s done. Now, go back under your rock you little gremlin.
@Anonymous
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Delusional to the point of being moronic.
Your reply is moronic and delusional.
Please keep defending the disastrous failure that was the Biden presidency. You only boost a real president by comparison.
He’s not wrong. You can tell Trump has trouble reading things and he doess look like a 5th grader trying to read when he reads through prepared statements.
I think his eye sight is really bad and he refuses to wear glasses or he is really illiterate. All anyone needs is to look at how he reads prepared statements. He looks like a toddler struggling to read through one paragraph.
Then he has his “senior moments” like when he couldn’t find the Finnish prime minister who was right in front of him. He’s pushing 80 hard. I wouldn’t be surprised his staff are doing exactly what Republicans are accusing Democrats of ignoring when Biden was in office. His health is really bad despite the “official” record. I wouldn’t expect him to last his entire term.
“Then he has his “senior moments” like when he couldn’t find the Finnish prime minister who was right in front of him. He’s pushing 80 hard. I wouldn’t be surprised his staff are doing exactly what Republicans are accusing Democrats of ignoring when Biden was in office. His health is really bad despite the “official” record. I wouldn’t expect him to last his entire term.”
Do take note, everyone, that this idiot never question the obvious senility of the worst president of the 21st century, Joe Biden, for years. You have no credibility here to question anybody else’s judgement or mental acuity.
Umm… illiterate you say? So wearing glasses is a sign of illiteracy? Couldn’t find the Fin pres.? That definitely proves it!
Yet Joe Biden wandered off into the Amazonian jungle, and none of these trolls cared. Interesting.
You can tell Trump has trouble reading things and he doess look like a 5th grader trying to read when he reads through prepared statements.
Normal Americans can easily tell your TDS combined with your blatant dishonesty and eagerness to prove you can Lie Like A Biden leaves you with the same mental acuity as the just involuntarily retired Oval Office House Plant
Can’t you at least spend a little time to come up with something more amusing – if you must plague everybody with your mental illness and Soviet Democrat corruption and dishonesty?
How about the latest edition of “Our Obama/Clinton/Biden/DNC Trump-Russia Dossier is 100% verified U.S. intelligence agency evidence that Trump worked with Putin to steal the 2016 election!!!”
You were probably one of those who were claiming George W Bush was illiterate until his reading list for one year was published, and it was truly impressive.
“That’s weird, because everyone knows Trump is illiterate.”
When you start with the unfounded assumption that leftists are smarter than anyone else, you talk yourself into nonsensical positions like this.
What reading list? Marvel comics vol. 23 through 67?
“What reading list? Marvel comics vol. 23 through 67?”
Try books. Dozens of them in a single year. Unquestioned by all sides.
Compare that to Obama. He was widely reported as never reading anything much. Occasionally he’d carry a book for show. Funny that racists like you never questioned Obama’s reading commitment.
Books you say? Comic book right? Racist like me? Seen my skin color lately?
“Books you say? Comic book right?”
Too lazy to look it up, I take it? Afraid of what you’ll find?
“Racist like me? Seen my skin color lately?”
I’ve never met a racist person of color. Cough.
The most corrupt President and Administration in US History. I never want to hear about Watergate again.
@JohnPaul
Truly. The most corrupt iteration of a party, too, and that continues. Unbelievable. We knew it was bad, but – sheesh. We are infinitely fortunate people woke up last November.
Excuse me, what Pres and admin? Watergate?
“Excuse me, what Pres and admin? Watergate?”
Relevance? None at all. Own up to the historic disaster that was the failed Biden presidency. Maybe you’ll learn something if you opened your eyes and ears for once, instead of just being a partisan attack dog.
What will one learn? Lay it out for us….
So you’re still defending the failed Biden presidency? Interesting. Hey everybody, we found one! The one person who still approves of the epic face plant that was Joe Biden’s presidency.
Hunter, don’t you have better things to do? Did you get your bag of cocaine back yet?
No. That (dis)honor belongs to Barack Obama and his Administration. Unless that’s what you meant by “the most corrupt President and Administration in US History.” Then I stand corrected. 🙂
Wow … another “WTF” aspect to what is really a nightmare. No one within this Admin could, would, or wanted to look beyond their 5 minutes of power grabbing fame, to consider ANY downstream consequences. Like rats, they scurried behind the scenes. Have they no shame, or conscious?
And then feign accountability, deny the obvious, and continue to apply a wretched level poisonous hypocrisy & double standards….
Exposure helps, but we need accountability, with some teeth. What a pathetic lot of freeking LOSERS.
Ladyselfless hit the nail on the head, or nails on their heads. They all wanted their power to remain intact, they all wanted their grift to continue and they all wanted their friends and allies to reap vast riches from their proximity to power.
The Dems knew Biden was a disaster since the 80s when they mocked him, to the 90s when they treated him like a rented mule, to the 2000s when they ignored him to the Obama years when they had to finally pretend he was ok but in a weird uncle kind of way. Then they became stuck with him and they tried to pretend he was “Amtrak Joe” or some moderate elder statesman while at the same time pretending that he wasn’t a corrupt oddball with a corrupt family in order to keep the commie off the ticket. Well it all blew up on them (and our poor country) and now the Biden legacy is toxic. Anyone in the administration, looking at you Harris and Pete, or who ever said he was cogent is now persona non grata in elective politics because they can’t answer the big question, “why did you say Biden was sharp as a tack”.
WHO CARES – I got Mine!!!
All of those pardons are of doubtful validity for several reasons.
What several reasons? That doesn’t sound very wise.
They are all presumptively valid, and any prosecutor trying to bring charges against one of these people will have to PROVE, at least on the balance of probability and probably beyond reasonable doubt, that Biden did NOT consciously pardon that person, or a category that included that person, or that he was incompetent at the moment when he did so.
Remember that Biden had good days and bad days. He wasn’t ga-ga all the time. So you’d have to prove that the pardon in question wasn’t made when he was having a good day, perhaps immediately after waking up from a refreshing nap.
“He wasn’t ga-ga all the time. So you’d have to prove …” I appreciate the joke at this hour of the day. So what do I have to prove exactly?
Respectfully disagree. If I can show Biden did not actually sign the so-called “Pardon”, I think the burden shifts to the defendant to show that Biden authorized the use of the autopen on that specific so-called “Pardon”. In addition, as I said elsewhere, I believe that by definition a pardon is for a specific person and a specific crime. It is not a “Get Out of Jail Free” card that can be used by a defendant for whatever he may be charged with.
*. If it were otherwise, WOL, a president could order a group to commit a crime with the intent to pardon after the group is arrested and tried with sentence.
*. Expound, WOL.
Spoken with ‘Impunity’ like a true Democrat (Hunter).
Likewise: I can imagine when Billy Clinton gets cornered for his exploits on Epstein’s Island, it will be something like this: (Spoken in my best William Jefferson Clinton accent)
“Hillary, I did not ‘insert’ my genitalia into those underage women”
This is a kin to his standard alibi : “I didn’t inhale” and “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”.
Really Bill? It happened again!
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
The Donald’s 2¢ of Clinton
Hillary Clinton Interviewed by Matt Lauer about Monica Lewinsky 1998
Hillary Clinton appeared on the Today Show on January 27, 1998, just days after the Lewinsky affair news broke, and was interviewed by none other than Matt Lauer. A little something for everyone to be angry about here. This was the morning after the President said “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” and also just hours before the President’s State of the Union speech that evening. Hillary uses the phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy” in this interview. Now that we know what Lauer was up to, it’s even harder to watch this footage.
BTW: Matt Lauer eventually got Clinton’ed (Blacklisted) in the end. The Clintons never forget
– She’s ‘Mean-On-Mean’.
History books generally print pictures of the Presidents in the sections where their adminstrations are discussed. In the case of the 46th President, they will print a question mark.
No, just a group photo.
Don’t blame Prez Trump over this.
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BREAKING: NY judges rejects Trump admin request to unseal Epstein grand jury documents
And does this have to do with the post?
Just another random post from a person without a life outside of politics.
Why you ask. Libs are screaming for this paper work, but lib judges keep blocking it. I wonder why.