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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky). In the former government itself.
“New records show Biden’s own administration raised concerns about automatic opening up concerns that awarded thousands of pardons. It’s a historic scandal and has a huge impact,” Comer told Fox News Digital Numbers Axios report.
“With President Biden’s refusal, his aides took administrative litigation without his approval, skeptical of the legitimacy of thousands of pardons and other administrative litigation.”
Comer added: “The House Oversight Committee is in Its investigation. This scandal must be responsible. ”
Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is leading President Joe Biden’s investigation into automatic open use. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
president Donald Trump Weighing the truth Social: “Biden’s automatic scandal is not as big as Russia, Russia, Russian scams or 2020 presidential elections manipulated in 2020, but, despite this, the biggest ever, ever!!!”
A former White House staff member is familiar with the pardon process.
The employee told Fox News Digital: “Republicans love to talk about Biden, whenever the news they don’t want to talk about is killed.
“These emails show a complete process to support that decision and check for automatic startup usage.”
Axios reported on the weekend that senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials marked Biden’s leniency handling procedures in their last days of their tenure.
Biden approved nearly 2,500 commutes on January 17, setting records for most wide large orders granted by the U.S. president, a total of more than 4,200, the most of the day ever, in history.

President Donald Trump speaks to the media with First Lady Melania Trump in Washington, DC on April 25, 2025 (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“Unfortunately, despite repeated requests and warnings, we do not have a reasonable opportunity to review and provide opinions about the person you are considering,” said Bradley Weinsheimer, an ethics attorney of the Department of Justice the next day.
He noted that at least one murderer was awarded leniency for the Justice Department, adding: “I don’t know if the president knows these backgrounds when he makes leniency.” New York Post First, the details of the memorandum were reported.
Meanwhile, Axios reported that the Justice Department pardon lawyers raised questions about White House lawyers, asking the department not to seek advice on multiple prisoners’ families of murder victims, and if they have not done so, including those who have sentenced, were also commuted by biden.
Axios’ report further shows that Biden’s White House Chief of Staff Stef Feldman repeatedly sought an automatic start-up process. In an email on January 16, she asked for details about the leniency order related to drugs approved by staff member Jeff Zients at the time. After being asked to use automatic opening as executive order, Feldman wrote: “When will we get it [Biden’s] Approve this? ”

Then-President Joe Biden spoke to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on September 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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The former Biden staffer insisted that the process was justified.
“The power of pardon is the president, not the Justice Department,” the staff said. “While the Justice Department is free to raise concerns about pardons, and it is ultimately the president’s decision until Trump fires all professionals who do so.”
Biden himself told The New York Times Recently, he has made every lenient decision himself.
Zients is expected to testify to the Oversight Committee later this month. Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is also planning a closed-door interview on Friday.

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