Trump says Bidens autopen looks like a bigger and bigger scandal after full special counsel Robert Hur audio leaks
Former President Joe Biden’s use of an “autopen” to sign last-minute pardons looks like a much “bigger scandal” after the full audio of his scattered interview with special counsel Robert Hur was released Saturday, President Trump said.“Whoever had control of the ‘AUTOPEN‘ is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment,” Trump posted on his Truth Social before launching into a tirade against the “thugs” on the House Select January who all were granted preemptive pardons from prosecution by Biden.Members including former Rep.
Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Sen.Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) were granted the blanket clemency during his final days in office in what appeared to be autopen-authorized documents, according to a subsequent Heritage Foundation analysis.On Saturday, Axios released five hours of Biden’s Oct.
8-9 sitdown with Hur, during which he spoke in strained tones and mixed up key information from his personal and political career.“It’s obviously very important to answer our questions truthfully,” the special counsel said at the start of the interview.“We hope that you’ll … put forth your best efforts and really try to make your best recollection in response to the questions we ask because I acknowledge that some of the questions we are asking relate to events that happened years ago,” he added.“I’m a young man, so it’s not a problem,” the then-80-year-old president quipped.But Biden went on to struggle with dates and names, inaccurately claiming his late son Beau had been “deployed” or was “dying” around 2017, when he departed the vice presidency and took with him batches of classified documents.In fact, the former Delaware attorney general passed from brain cancer in 2015.“Remember, in this time frame, my son is … uh … would’ve been deployed or is dying and so … it was … and by the way there were still a lot of people at the time, when I got out of the Senate, that were encouraging me ...