DOJ's New Deputy to Investigate Biden's Last-Minute Autopen Pardons: 'They Could Be Corrupt'

President Trump pulled Ed Martin Jr.’s nomination for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Thursday after North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis refused to offer his crucial support, but the commander in chief quickly found another role for the lawyer: Director of the Weaponization Working Group, Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Pardon Attorney.

One of the new hire's first moves will be to investigate former President Joe Biden’s extensive use of the autopen to sign executive orders, official documents—and most importantly to Martin, pardons. Biden infamously pardoned his son Hunter (after promising for months that he would do no such thing), January 6 Committee gaslighters like former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), retired Gen. Mark Milley, former Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the man who made millions while spouting COVID misinformation, and many others.

Martin has questions:

“These are big moments, and so they have to be able to withstand scrutiny,” Martin told reporters on Tuesday, his last full day as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia…
Martin told reporters that he believes Biden's pardons “need some scrutiny.”
“They need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that's used correctly. So I do think we're going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did,” he said.

🚨BREAKING: Ed Martin, the DOJ’s Pardon Attorney, is launching an investigation into Joe Biden’s last minute auto-pen pardons:

“We've never seen pardons of this scope, and it looks like they could be corrupt.” pic.twitter.com/wIVAk4DWpF
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) May 14, 2025

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Most of the last-minute pardons were issued for people who had not even been charged with a crime. The corrupt then-president saw his moves as a way to prevent Trump from using the DOJ to go after his enemies the way that Biden and his attack dog, former Attorney General Merrick Garland, did.

Poor, innocent Joe:

NEWS: Biden pardons other members of his family, saying "My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me—the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end." pic.twitter.com/aoFPT5I5Mq
— Jarrett Renshaw (@JarrettRenshaw) January 20, 2025

It’s unclear what Martin or the DOJ could do here; the president has broad constitutional pardon powers, and overturning them would be a steep hill to climb. If, however, they could prove that some of the pardons were signed by autopen without Biden even knowing about it, they might be able to make some headway. If nothing else, it would expose even further how devious the previous administration was.

While Biden’s unethical pardons quickly faded into the news cycle as the Trump whirlwind presidency began, it’s important that we don’t forget. For any who still had questions, the get-out-of-jail free cards proved that Joe—or Jill, or his handlers, or whoever was running the administration—was no do-gooding virtuous granddad who just wanted to do what’s right.

Even in his diminished mental state, he was a conniving, manipulative man who regularly put his own well-being above the country’s, and those pardons will forever stain his already diminished legacy.

We should be thrilled each and every day that Joe Biden is back home on the beach in Delaware and Kamala is wandering around somewhere in California.

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