Leftist bribem "staff secretary" used autopen to sign pardons. Did bribem know?
New York Post reports that a longtime left-wing operative, senior advisor and bribem's staff secretary Neera Tanden, may have used an autopen to add bribem's signature to six pardons.
Tanden was staff secretary from May 2021 to May 2023, so the pardons in question are *not* the thousand or so bribem supposedly signed in the last month of his rule.
A source in the Biden White House told the Post they suspect "an aide to the then-president" may have made unilateral determinations on what to auto-sign for bribem.
The Post didn't publish the staffer's name because the claim couldn't be confirmed, but speculation is swirling around Neera Tanden. Bribem first nominated the longtime left-wing operative to head the Office of Management and Budget, but that nomination failed, so bribem later named her a "senior advisor" and White House Staff Secretary.
On Dec. 30, 2022, while Biden was golfing in the Virgin Islands, six pardons with his signature "appeared" in D.C.
Asked about the claims that bribem may not have authorized Tanden to use the autopen to sign bribem's name to the pardons, Tanden responded
>>Does this mean everything with a Trump autopen signature is void in this Administration and the last? Because there's a lot by autopen in every Administration. Some enterprising lawyers may want to sue.>>
That's clearly a deflection: Instead of simply denying she used the autopen to sign bribem's name to the pardons, she implies that if that use is questioned, *everything* signed with an autopen is void. But of course courts have ruled that the use of an autopen is acceptable for *some* documents, but only for trivia like "proclamations" for holidays and similar. Not for executive orders or pardons.
But of course most Americans don't know that.
Did Biden actually authorize those six pardons? If so, where are the memos, the paper trail of detailed orders? Where are the witnesses who heard bribem give Tanden those orders?
Tanden went from heading a far-left think tank to managing the autopen. Question is, did she apply bribem's name to the pardons without bribem's knowledge?
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/18/is-this-the-aide-who-abused-joe-bidens-autopen-n4938019
Courts have ruled that an autopen sig is valid when a president has authorized the use of it on a specific document. So the question here is whether biden directed Tanden to use the pen while he was golfing in the Virgin Islands, and for what purposes. There has to be a paper trail, specific written orders for exactly whom to pardon, eh?
And for something so crucial as a pardon, you'd think there would be many witnesses to make sure the list was precise and numbered.
Special counsel Robert Hur said bribem's mental state was so poor that he couldn't recall anything, thus couldn't be prosecuted. If that was accurate, it would make having a set of very specific instructions.
For example, the Speaker of the House asked bribem why he signed an EO banning the export of natural gas. He denied signing such an order--though he signed that one by hand.
Source.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/18/is-this-the-aide-who-abused-joe-bidens-autopen-n4938019
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