Ted Cruz suggests DOJ could prosecute recipients of Biden’s ‘autopen pardons’

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) highlighted the next steps that the Department of Justice could take in its investigation of former President Joe Biden’s autopen, including whether it was used to grant myriad pardons.

President Donald Trump has called for a vast investigation into the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, suggesting that Biden’s autopen was used to conceal his decline and “assert Article II authority.” It comes after Trump said in March that the pardons granted by Biden were “VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,” claiming they were done via autopen and that “Biden did not sign them.”

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