James Comer Declares Biden Autopen Pardons ‘Can Be Easily’ Made ‘Null and Void’
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) declared that pardons and executive orders issued by former President Joe Biden using autopen during his final weeks in office “can be easily” made “null and void” by the courts.
Biden granted more than 4,200 clemency orders before leaving the White House, including almost 1,500 commutations last December in what was the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.
The formal investigation into Biden’s use of autopen was commissioned by President Donald Trump in June, after the president repeatedly pushed the issue as “one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history.” Biden dismissed the allegations outright, labelling them “ridiculous and false.”
Comer appeared on Fox News on Tuesday to speak with anchor Bill Hemmer as the Republican-led investigation enters its “final stages” and made the additional revelation that the committee’s probe found that Biden “wasn’t the one that was directing the use of that autopen.”
Said Comer:
I think for one thing you can question whether or not these pardons and executive orders that were signed in the last three and a half months when the president was clearly checked out of office – and there’s more and more evidence that shows he did not know what was going on with the use of that autopen – I think you can question the validity and legality of those pardons and executive orders and that is huge.
I think that it is not a stretch to say that those pardons and executive orders can be easily declared null and void in the court of law and I think our investigation will serve as evidence with that.
We have got a few more people to bring in. We are bringing in [former Biden White House Press Secretary Karine] Jean-Pierre Friday. She obviously has a book that comes out that talks about a lot of the things that were going on in the Biden White House, we wonder if the use of the autopen down the stretch is one of them. We are going to find out.
But at the end of the day, with the staffers that we brought in and deposed, the way they said the autopen worked versus what the e-mails that are being surfaced say how the autopen worked – totally inconsistent. One thing we have learned is that Joe Biden wasn’t the one that was directing the use of that autopen.
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