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2025-10-29 Government Corruption

Staggering autopen trail exposes chaos in Biden's final days... now pardons face unprecedented review

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-10-29 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1977 views ] Top

1 Biden doctor refused to perform cognitive exam on president, shocking congressional report says

Posted by Skidmark 2025-10-28 15:36|| 2025-10-28 15:36|| Front Page Top

2 Comer unleashes on Biden, demands DOJ probe of autopen use in scathing new report

Posted by Skidmark 2025-10-28 15:40|| 2025-10-28 15:40|| Front Page Top

3 The DC crowd would just like this to go away.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-10-29 05:40|| 2025-10-29 05:40|| Front Page Top

4 ...As a practical matter, those pardoned will stay pardoned - that's a can of worms NOBODY wants to open, all the more so because the minute the Dems get back into power they'll start yanking pardons back so fast your heads will spin.

What does need to happen is that DOJ needs to make it clear that the process used to obtain these pardons was catastrophically flawed at best, and at worst illegal and unconstitutional. They need to make it clear that anyone who pulls this stunt again is at the very least going to be banned from further government service and permanently stripped of their clearances, and will face jail time.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-10-29 06:51|| 2025-10-29 06:51|| Front Page Top

5 /\ Excellent point Mike. I might also suggest taking a sledgehammer to the autopen machine.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-10-29 09:45|| 2025-10-29 09:45|| Front Page Top

6 Future pardons are easy to defend based on precedent and the Constitution. The power for the president to grant pardons is absolute, but there is no absolute power of the Chief of Staff to sell the president’s fake signature because the president has no marbles left.
These pardons weren’t signed by Biden, so they are different. DC folks don’t want to deal with two parts of this issue in particular: they all knew that Biden was senile before he was elected and they all know that pardons are routinely bought and sold. Dealing with the auto pen stuff will lead directly to those two facts. All of them are implicated in covering up Biden’s obvious impairment even if that involves just staying quiet. It’s like Cindy McCain’s admission about Epstein. With respect to pardons being bought and sold, they all know that this happens. Certainly, it happened with Biden’s flurry at the end. Everyone around him was cashing out. The fact that this level of obvious corruption was blatantly on display like a flea market for clemency “damages an institution” in the eyes of DC folks.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-10-29 11:15|| 2025-10-29 11:15|| Front Page Top

7 Cheaters never prosper.

I suspect the ill-named "Inflation Reduction Act" is null and void. What about the Biden budget at the heart of the current shutdown? Is it also null and void?

Posted by Melancholic 2025-10-29 19:31|| 2025-10-29 19:31|| Front Page Top

8 How about making all in DC null and void?
And what's wrong with sledgehammers to their heads?

Posted by 3dc 2025-10-29 20:33|| 2025-10-29 20:33|| Front Page Top

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