President Donald Trump hit multiple topics and drew laughs in the White House on Monday. Taking questions from reporters, he talked about everything from Joe Biden’s autopen scandal to transgender weightlifters.
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On the first point, the president commented on a recent New York Times article that revealed Biden’s seeming lack of involvement in issuing a variety of eleventh-hour pardons. That includes one for Dr. Anthony Fauci. In short, the former president’s chief of staff, Jeffrey Zients, was the one who gave the “approval” for the pardons and use of the autopen to sign them, though the claim is that Biden verbally agreed. That “decision” was filtered through then-White House counsel Ed Siskel to Zients via an email sent to an aide.
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🚨 TRUMP: “I guarantee Biden knew NOTHING about the pardons signed by the autopen.”
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