Was President Joe Biden aware of who he was pardoning in the final days of his presidency? Or were White House staffers behind the unprecedented string of autopen signings? In recent weeks, evidence has been mounting that the former president may not have been in the loop, which is, to be charitable, problematic.
Luckily for us, the folks at NBC News jumped into action with a story headlined, “Lead investigator into Biden’s use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature.” In it, reporters Ryan Nobles and Melanie Zanona make an inane equivalence between Rep. James Comer (R-KY) signing PDFs using a digital signature — a completely legal thing to do — and Joe Biden allegedly allowing his staff to issue blanket presidential pardons for thousands of people without knowing the names or crimes of the recipients.
