Oversight Committee Member Calls For More Subpoenas As Biden Aides Lawyer Up
By: M.D. Kittle
July 15, 2025
Playtime is over.
The New York Times’ latest piece attempting to help former President Joe Biden and his administration off the hook in the growing autopen scandal is having the opposite effect. If anything, the Biden apologists raised a lot more questions about just who was in control of the White House — and the thousands of presidential clemency decisions issued in the waning days of Biden’s disastrous term.
The newspaper’s veiled attempt to publicly exonerate the cognitively compromised former president and his staff from a three-front investigation also raises the urgency for answers under oath. The reporters’ 10-minute phone interview with Biden in which he dubiously claims to have “made every decision” on his record-smashing 4,245 acts of clemency (the vast majority in the closing months of his term), despite emails showing multiple pardons were granted via autopen without the president’s approval. Interestingly, the Times’ piece notes that the only clemency warrant that Biden signed with his own hand in late 2024 was the preemptive full pardon he granted his corrupt son, Hunter Biden.
Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said he wants to see more heat on the people who reportedly were in the White House rooms when the decisions were apparently made.
“Obviously, things were so unusual at the end [of Biden’s presidential term] that it mandates further investigation,” he told The Federalist on Monday. Grothman added that more committee-issued subpoenas should be part of that intensified “package” of committee actions.
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