Quotes
You’re a reporter, you should find out.”
Asked whether there was any evidence Biden was not aware of the pardons, Leavitt said
I went through four years of hell by the scum that we had to deal with … It’s really hard to say that they shouldn’t have to go through it all,
he told Fox News in his first week back in officeBut none has shown the same symptoms of senility and dementia [as Biden],
the newspaper saidThe members of the Jan 6 Committee are all proud of our work. Your threats will not intimidate us. Or silence us.”
Following Trump’s post, Schiff respondedDid he know what he was doing?”
Trump said aboard Air Force One on Sunday (Washington time).The notion of an autopen is certainly not going to go anywhere in any court in the United States,
he saidThe post was a satirical take on Trump's tactics, highlighting how absurd his claims about Biden's pardons are,
Jackson told Newsweek
I've got this thing and it's f****** golden,
Blagojevich was recorded saying about the Senate seat
They feel like they're a power center in their own right,
Blagojevich said in a podcast conversation with Joe RoganNo signature at all. Whoops,
Jackson wrote on X above a photograph of what appears to be a pardon of Blagojevich without a signature from the presidentIt's my honor to do it. I've watched him. He was set up by a lot of bad people,
Trump told reporters right before signing the pardon in the Oval Office
There might be a serious legal question about pardoning without specifying the conduct that you're being pardoned for, right? So the blanket pardon for Hunter Biden ... a blanket pardon might be problematic because it's not clear what you're pardoning somebody for,
Adler said
The first principle resolves the matter of whether a writing is required as part of the President's exercise of the clemency power. The answer is undoubtedly no,
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The Bush Justice Department looked at this thoroughly and concluded that as long as the President makes the actual decision, he can delegate to secretarial staff the actual signing of the document,
said Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official John Yoo
I cannot see the courts rejecting this — it builds on centuries of practice and a long legal tradition of allowing agents to sign on behalf of their principals,
Yoo addedNo reasonable lawyer, no reasonable politician would ever say anything like this,
said American University Department of Government professor Chris Edelson of Trump's pardons claimAll the awful apartment leases & car leases & loan terms that are now null & void re: DocuSign meets Donald Trump logic,
said one X user
So, we don't have to pay back any loans for loan contracts we signed with DocuSign. [Yeehaw], good times!"
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The president [Trump] was raising the point that, did the president [Biden] even know about these pardons?”
Leavitt saidThe president was begging the question that I think a lot of journalists in this room should be asking,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday, alleging