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Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions Recorded With Autopen

Donald J. Trump and his allies have begun investigations to support their claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was incapacitated and his staff conspired to take presidential actions in his name.

© Tom Brenner for The New York Times

Toward the end of his term as president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. reduced the sentences of nearly 4,000 federal convicts and pre-emptively pardoned dozens of politically prominent people he saw as potential targets of vindictive criminal investigations by his successor.

Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Biden on Clemency Decisions

14 July 2025 at 07:07
The former president said he “made every single one of those” decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because “they’ve done so badly” and wanted to shift the focus.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Toward the end of his presidency, Joseph R. Biden Jr. granted large batch commutations to reduce the sentences of three categories of federal convictions.
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