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Trump: Autopen Use In Biden Admin ‘Under Serious Investigation’

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The messages show that Biden orally approved a plan on Jan. 11, 2025, to commute sentences for inmates serving time on crack cocaine charges. But three warrant documents listing roughly 2,500 recipients were not signed — by autopen — until the morning of Jan. 17, just three days before he left office.

On the evening of Jan. 16, then-White House Staff Secretary Stef Feldman told colleagues she needed confirmation that Biden had consented before she would authorize his autopen signature.

“I’m going to need email … confirming P[resident] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready,” Feldman wrote at 9:16 p.m.

Deputy White House counsel Tyeesha Dixon forwarded Feldman’s message to Michael Posada, chief of staff to the counsel’s office.

“Michael, thoughts on how to handle this? He doesn’t review the warrants,” she wrote.

Posada responded: “We will just need something … making clear that the documents accurately reflect his decision.”

The mass clemency was announced hours later, at 4:59 a.m. on Jan. 17.

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