Who was ruling America?

[Magictoad]

An extract from the Daily Telegraph; a reputable British Newspaper. 

We’re finally learning the awful truth about who ruled America under Biden

Revelations about the use of the autopen to grant commutations and pardons cannot be brushed aside as a Republican smear

The joke is that Joe Biden’s autopen was in chargeCredit: Pool/2023 Getty Images

Dan McLaughlin

14 July 2025 6:30pm BST

The autopen may be mightier than the sword – or the law – but it’s not a shield. The latest revelations about the extent to which Joe Biden’s staff affixed his signature to pardons and commutations in his name, using a device to replicate his handwriting, is further damning evidence of who was really running his White House.

The joke is that the autopen was in charge. The sad reality is that Biden’s unelected staff and family were exercising the constitutional powers of the presidency without the obvious supervision of an elected leader.

Say what you will about the erratic nature of Donald Trump’s decisions and public statements; when the 79-year-old does or says something, there’s no mistaking his signature (although he has said he’s used the autopen for “very unimportant papers”).

Not so with Biden. A report in Sunday’s New York Times, including a brief telephone interview with the 82-year-old former president, discloses some new details about the scale of the auto-pardons, but it is full of cautions about how much the authors may not know. The Times piece is transparently an effort by Biden’s team to use a sympathetic outlet to get a favourable spin on the facts ahead of investigations by Congress and the Justice Department. Readers will notice how far into the article one must get before encountering the facts. But even the facts we know are hard to whitewash.

[riclag]

Basically Bidens signature covered Hunter & family.

Others used the autopen, which Biden

said he ok’d.

 

All this resulting in another investigation!

Joe needs to testify under oath and be questioned! He’s lied  so many times before  when involving Hunter.

 

 

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/biden-defends-autopen-use-white-house

 

https://oversight.house.gov/blog/joe-biden-lied-at-least-15-times-about-his-familys-business-schemes/

[Hummin]

More distractions 

[bamnutsak]

Distraction.

 

trump uses an autopen ALL THE TIME.

 

That doofus James Comer is leading the Biden Autopen "investigation".

 

Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature

 

WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has been leading the probe into Joe Biden’s cognitive state during his presidency, with Republicans alleging that Biden's occasional use of an “autopen” to sign documents — a practice other presidents have done as well — demonstrated that he wasn’t fully in control or aware of what his administration was doing.

 

Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature

 

 

 

 

[shdmn]

In other "hey, look over there" news.

 

 

[jerrymahoney]

So what's the big deal? I thought Trump -- by the authority he has granted to himself on Truth Social -- has declared that all the Biden pardons are void:

 

The “Pardons” that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.

 

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114175908922736427

[KhaoHom]

41 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

trump uses an autopen ALL THE TIME.

 

Please cite this because the exact opposite is true.

 

ALL THE TIME

[KhaoHom]

My guess:

 

Wray

Comey

Burns

Klain

Blinken

Mayorkas

Garland

<deleted>lib Joint Chiefs

Fauci*

 

 

[thesetat]

7 minutes ago, KhaoHom said:

 

Please cite this because the exact opposite is true.

 

ALL THE TIME

i am curious about this claim also. Since Trump usually has media coverage on his signing any important documents visually verifying his signing them

[frank83628]

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

Distraction.

 

trump uses an autopen ALL THE TIME.

 

That doofus James Comer is leading the Biden Autopen "investigation".

 

Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature

 

WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has been leading the probe into Joe Biden’s cognitive state during his presidency, with Republicans alleging that Biden's occasional use of an “autopen” to sign documents — a practice other presidents have done as well — demonstrated that he wasn’t fully in control or aware of what his administration was doing.

 

Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature

 

 

 

 

The difference being trump says when it is used and doesnt have dementia

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

Distraction.

 

trump uses an autopen ALL THE TIME.

Yep. For the thousands of letters to schoolchildren NOT to give pre-emptive pardons.

[Chomper Higgot]

I thought this might be a discussion on the hyper wealthy and corporations buying elections through the use if ‘Citizens United’

 

The first sentence in the OP revealed it was not.

 

The Daily Telegraph would never go there.