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The Department of Justice could reportedly be set to review pardons issued by Joe Biden in the last weeks of his administration amid questions surrounding the former president’s cognitive well-being and health.
According to a report from Reuters, DOJ Pardon Attorney Ed Martin allegedly wrote in an email that he was directed to investigate the competency of Joe Biden during the time orders of clemency were issued and whether the former president was being “taken advantage of.”
The outlet alleged that they had seen and reviewed Martin’s email, and said it focused on the 37 pardons issued by Biden to federal inmates on death row, as well as the pardons issued to members of the presidential family.
“Martin’s email did not specify which pardons of Biden family members were being investigated. It also did not make clear who directed Martin to launch the investigation,” the outlet reported.
Scandalous accusations surrounding Joe Biden’s competency during the twilight days of his administration have plagued his political legacy, especially amid the recent revelation that Biden is suffering from an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer.
President Trump has made his opinion on the subject very clear, commenting in late May that he didn’t think Biden knew what was going on regarding what was being signed in the Oval Office.
“Who was operating the autopen?” Trump told the press. “This is a very serious thing – we [had] a president who didn’t sign anything…he opened the borders of the United States of America.”
He also remarked, “The government was illegally run for four years.”
Florida Congressman Byron Donalds (R), an ally to Trump, has slammed the “autopen actions” taken during the Biden administration as “ELDER ABUSE” by those who took advantage of “Biden’s cognitive decline.”
Whether Biden was aware of what was being signed is up for debate, but one watchdog group’s investigation of several executive actions taken by the former president on climate policies has been troubling.
According to an investigative report from the pro-energy nonprofit “Power the Future,” they drew serious questions as to whether Biden was aware of the executive orders he was signing on the climate agenda, due to a cited lack of public acknowledgment on each issue from the man himself.
The report argued:
“This lack of public acknowledgment begs the question of whether these orders were auto-penned by eco-left policy by ghostwriters? Americans deserve to know whether their president is making energy policy or whether it’s being run by anonymous staffers in federal agencies and activist NGOs behind closed doors.”
