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top Biden gives medicine Officials questioned and criticized the former presidential team for handling pardons and used an automatic start-up method during the decline of his White House term, a report said.
A person familiar with the process of broad road Tell Axios After President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter on December 1, 2024, “there is a crazy dash to find a bunch of people and then he can pardon – and then they are largely not reviewed by the Justice Department.”
The news agency reported on Saturday that several senior Justice Department officials were on the White House The lawyer’s office regarding the process of pardoning an individual.
Biden left the office three days before he announced that he was “in the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes that were disproportionately sentenced to sentences today under current laws, policies and practices.”
Former President Joe Biden spoke at an April 15, 2025 conference of advocates, counselors and representatives held at the Sofitel Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. (Tannen Maury/AFP via Getty Images)
“Through this action, I now publish more pardons and commutes than any president in U.S. history,” Biden said in a statement on January 17.
But Axios reported that the next day, senior Justice Department ethics attorney Bradley Weinsheimer pointed out in a memorandum that those pardoned as nonviolent were “unreal or at least misleading.”
According to Axios, “Unfortunately, despite repeated requests and warnings, we have no reasonable opportunity to review the people you are considering.”
The news agency said Winstemmer mentioned a person who pleaded guilty to the charges related to the murder.
Weinsheimer describes Ministry of Justice Axios reported that the man marked the man as “problem”, but Biden was commuting.
It is reported that I don’t know if the president knows these backgrounds when he makes a wide-ranging decision. ”
Representatives for Biden, former head of the White House lawyer’s office, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on Saturday.

Former President Joe Biden, left, his son Hunter Biden stands side by side. The former president pardoned Hunter Biden in December 2024. (Getty Image)
According to Axios, senior Biden White House officials also backed internally on requests using automatic start-up requirements and quoted the emails it received.
It said Biden’s White House Chief of Staff Stef Feldman repeatedly requested more information and confirmed Biden’s intention to start automatically.
“When will we get it [Biden’s] Feldman reportedly wrote in an email on January 7: “Approve this?
“I need…original chain confirmation email [Biden] When ready, sign specific documents.
The situation develops because President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into the Biden administration and accused senior officials of using automatic signatures to cover up the decline in perceptions of the former president.
“I made a decision on pardon, execution of orders, legislation and statements. Any suggestions about me are not ridiculous or wrong,” Biden said in a statement in June.

Former President Joe Biden welcomed then-elected President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump to the White House before taking office in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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“It’s nothing more than a distraction from Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans who are working to push for disastrous legislation that will cut basic programs like Medicaid and increase the cost of American families, all at the cost of tax breaks for mega and large companies,” he added at the time.
Anders Hagstrom of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.

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