Steven Richards and John Solomon
Internal notes obtained by Only a message President’s helpers Joe Biden believed at the beginning of their administration that he had the obligation to personally sign official presidential actions, including pardon, and the chronicle, how the former president later outsourcing determines the credibility of the then credibility of the president of Kamali Harris.
The notes were collected as part of the wide review of the White House of Trump in order to operate the Sittarus Signatures for the official business, an investigation, which now raises recent questions about whether the former president actually participated in four meetings at the end of his term of office, devoted to pursuing decisions.
These decisions regarding pardon included pounded hungry for members of the Biden family, as well as commuting to a federal death sentence.
No biden entries participating in the meetings that caused pardon
The National Archives and Records Administration informed the office of the lawyer of the White House that “we did not find specific notes from the meeting, which clearly mention or notice that the president was present” for any of the four meetings, in accordance with the documents reviewed by Only a message.
“The note of President Biden’s decision regarding access to the federal death sentence is unmarked, and Nara cannot find a version indicating the consent of President Biden,” he added the documents.
The Joe and Jill Biden office did not respond to a commentary sent by the contact page.
. Pew Center He informed that Biden “awarded more pardon than any previous director” and noticed that “generally Biden awarded 4245 acts of pardon during his four -year term in the White House.”
In June, President Donald Trump He ordered a White House advisor Conducting whether any higher administrative officials “conspired to cheat society” regarding the mental state of the former president and his authority and duties.
Then Trump in particular ordered investigators to examine the operate of an autopne on official documents or pounded activities.
Note: Politics began to require a manual signature on pardoning letters
The investigation in the White House revealed an early note, which shows that one administrative day used the “original manual signature” for pardon, he was abandoned over the last year of the office, when The Biden, when it was The autopne was often used sign orders as part of the President’s fertile madness.
Within a month from the office of the office, the secretary of the White House Staff Jess Hertz disseminated this project, outlining the official policy that would rule whether certain presidential actions would require a handwritten signature from the recent president, whether they would qualify for an autopne.
In February 2021, the note clearly states that senior employees would recommend the president personally signing the “pardon letters” with the “original manual signature”, in accordance with a copy of the given document given by Only a message. The secretary of the staff wrote that the determination is based on precedents established during the Obama-Biden administration.
“Based on the precedent of the Obama-Biden administration in relation to which documents are usually signed by the president, our recommendation is that you usually confirm and sign all decisions requiring presidential actions,” we read in the note.
The documents show that the project of the note was handed over to the Chief of Staff Ron Klain, deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon, deputy chief of the staff of the policy of Bruce Reed and the director of office operations of the Oval Oval Operation of the White House Anna Tomasini. However, there is no record of any final version of the memorandum in national archives, review found.
Biden claims that he has made a decision to pardon, but gave some to Vice President Harris
In the last year of Biden’s term of office, the lack of records and contemporary notes of meetings bring about questions about whether Biden was sufficiently informed about the decisions before him and whether he finally made decisions, he summed up the White House.
IN Statement of June 2025.Among the public control of his pardon, Biden said: “I made decisions regarding pardon, executive orders, regulations and proclamations. Any suggestions that it is not funny and false.”
However, the design of the memorandum disseminated by the Biden lawyer in the White House in February 2024, describing the “general pattern” in order to obtain approval of activities for pardon, seems to be contrary to the president’s claim. The document shows that last year the president was increasingly involved in the assessment of Vice President Harris, and not his own approval process.
“Note: Considering the president’s schedule, he can often take several days or weeks to review and approve the pardon package, “we read in the note of lawyers.” The head of the staff office helpful in obtaining paper before him. “
“Earlier he asked the White House advisor to discuss the candidates with him, although in the last round the approved of the vice president was sufficient to obtain his consent,” the lawyers noted.
Trump’s White House said that this note shows that the former president effectively “outsourcing” the decision to pardon for Harris over the past year.
In addition, in the review he found little contemporary evidence that Biden actually participated in four key meetings pounded in the weakening months of his term and did not appear at that time any registration of the President’s presentation, which refer to arguments, travel or pardon.
In December 2024, four meetings and January 2025 took place, in which President Biden apparently submitted a “oral approval” for his extensive actions, including commuting to the recipients of Care Act Act Home, federal prisoners of ROW Death Row and convictions of the Cracow, as well as Biden Family Pardons.
However, despite the retrograde power e -mail describing the presence of biden at four meetings – which allegedly took place on December 5, 11 January, 11 January and 19 January – national archives did not have any contemporary employee banknotes from any meeting participants that could confirm that the former president was present at these meetings or made orally orally for these trade union acts.
There are more doubts about the staff to fully inform Biden about activities
In the same December until January, the White House found that none of the books of the former president discusses any actions with awareness, asking questions about whether the president was informed about the full range of actions that he insists that he would approve.
In fact, the only information provided about biden, which resolved actions during this period, came on December 13, 2024 in an information book, which contains over 60 pages of recent reports on Cares Act Home Litrement and interview points for the president’s interview with an interview with the President with the President with the President with the President USA TodayA review of the White House was found.
In the case of one of the most controversial acts of pardon, communication of sentences for 37 federal prisoners sitting in the death cell, the White House review also arose the issue of whether the president has agreed to act.
The White House was obtained on December 10, 2024. The Memorandum project from the White House advisor Edward Siskla, who recommended the president “using the rights to pardon to work – to imprison for life without the possibility of a trial period – judgments of 37 people, which the current prosecutor general would not authorize today to death based on current fees”, show documents.
At the top of the notes, four biden selection options were mentioned: confirm, confirm as part of the change, rejection or discussion. However, national archives could not find any final version of the note indicating the approval of the president of 37 communication, said the White House. However, all 37 were signed.
The first look at the White House lawyer’s probe in the previous administration follows the heels of significant control of the Congress controlled by the Republicans, which separately fired the probe to the autopne policy and what many consider to be rapidly decreasing biden sharpness.
This probe, headed by the House supervisory commission, stated that several higher officials whose task was to defend the president’s health and manage the process of approval by autopne He had extremely little access Biden, Only a message previously reported.
The interaction of Biden with autopne managers has become more and more often
These older helpers biden insist that while the president would remain suitable for governance and mentally capable in the last years of his semester. But their congress interviews paint a photo of a muted white house and often show key employees He had minimal interactions with the Chief Director.
Additional witnesses were less about their work in the White House. The personal doctor of the former president and the chief of staff of the first lady Jill Biden appointed to their fifth amendment to self -registering in questioning by the House supervisory commission headed by GOP.
Like the White House, the chairman of the supervisor James Comer believes that his probe showed that older employees have not proved that the former president actually knew what he was signing and that you could operate evidence Challenge some pardons or executive orders.
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John Solomon is an award -winning investigator journalist, author and entrepreneur of digital media, who is the general director and the editor of the boss only. Steven Richards is only a news reporter.
