{"id":2437393,"date":"2025-05-21T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-quarter-of-a-mil-rep-burchetts-bombshell-autopen-claim-says-well-find-that-autopen-staffers-sold-pardons\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:17:16","slug":"a-quarter-of-a-mil-rep-burchetts-bombshell-autopen-claim-says-well-find-that-autopen-staffers-sold-pardons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-quarter-of-a-mil-rep-burchetts-bombshell-autopen-claim-says-well-find-that-autopen-staffers-sold-pardons\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Quarter of a Mil&#8217; &#8211; Rep Burchett\u2019s Bombshell Autopen Claim Says We&#8217;ll Find That Autopen Staffers Sold Pardons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-quarter-of-a-mil-rep-burchetts-bombshell-autopen-claim-says-well-find-that-autopen-staffers-sold-pardons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2437393&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dei-disaster-petition-circulating-within-secret-service-community-warns-of-potential-insider-threats\/\" title=\"DEI Crisis: Secret Service Petition Raises Concerns About &#039;Insider Threats\">article discusses concerns<\/a> regarding former President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental fitness during his final year in office, emphasizing that recent leaks and analyses suggest a meaningful decline. An interview with Special Counsel Robert hur allegedly reveals serious cognitive issues, raising questions about Biden&#8217;s decision-making capabilities. Notably, reports and commentary suggest that biden&#8217;s staff may have been making key decisions on his behalf, particularly during a period of political pardons and clemency grants that some view as extensive and possibly problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee GOP Representative Tim Burchett has highlighted potential misconduct, suggesting that the ease with which pardons were issued could indicate a &#8220;cash for clemency&#8221; operation reminiscent of past political scandals were pardons were sold. He expresses fears that this could lead to legal repercussions for those involved and calls for a thorough inquiry into the nature of Biden&#8217;s pardons, particularly those executed using an autopen due to Biden&#8217;s incapacitated condition.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion generates speculation about potential corruption within the administration and the implications of Biden&#8217;s declining health on governance. Burchett draws parallels between Biden&#8217;s presidency and ancient instances of political corruption,framing the issue as one of significant public concern and potential legal outcome.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>I think we&rsquo;re on safe ground to say that we now know former President Joe Biden was not in any sort of fit mental state during his final year in office, and likely long before that. This is beyond dispute.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, we had the audio from Biden&rsquo;s interview with special counsel Robert Hur leak; if you haven&rsquo;t listened to it, it&rsquo;s devastating, since it depicts a man much farther gone mentally than the transcripts of the interview did, and the transcripts were already bad.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the most thorough look into Biden&rsquo;s mental deterioration &mdash; &ldquo;Original Sin: President Biden&rsquo;s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,&rdquo; by CNN&rsquo;s Jake Tapper and Axios&rsquo; Alex Thompson &mdash; was released, confirming that even before his 2020 presidential run, serious questions about his mental capacity existed, and an inner circle of trusted staffers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/panicking-tapper-hires-crisis-pr-firm-everyone-sees-didnt-know-biden-debilitated-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not only protected him but effectively made important decisions for him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This all raises the question, then: What about everything signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watchdog-examines-bidens-signature-proves-autopen-signature-used-signing-orders-fox-news-confirms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with the autopen<\/a> &mdash; the electronic device used to affix the president&rsquo;s signature to documents he&rsquo;s approved but will not personally put his John Hancock on &mdash; during the final years of Biden&rsquo;s presidency?<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett would certainly like some answers about that, particularly health<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&rsquo;t recall, Biden&rsquo;s list of pardons and grants of clemency were extraordinarily broad. In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-scott-jennings-unleashes-hunter-biden-pardon-cnn-commentator-tried-defend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pardoning his own son<\/a>, Hunter Biden &mdash; who he said he absolutely&nbsp;<em>wouldn&rsquo;t<\/em> pardon after his convictions on felony charges &mdash;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-goes-pardon-spree-largest-single-day-grant-clemency-modern-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his White House publicly advertised<\/a> that the president went on the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >largest single-day grant<\/a> of clemency in modern history&rdquo; in December 2024, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-biden-pardons-fauci-milley-effort-guard-potential-revenge-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preemptively pardoned controversial Biden-era figures<\/a> like former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Among those receiving pardons or clemency included a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/list-biden-wh-eyeing-shocking-pardons-jan-20-justice-draw-near\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania judge who sold minors into for-profit prisons<\/a> as part of a bribery scheme and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-biden-pardons-6-convicted-murder-drug-alcohol-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/family-murdered-woman-unleashes-biden-killers-commutation-absolutely-disgusting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murderers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the podcast of Turning Point USA&rsquo;s Benny Thompson talking about the autopen and Biden&rsquo;s diminished state during his final years in office &mdash; particularly in light of a Stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis announced Sunday which, ahem, sounded quite dodgy given the details of how the disease was supposedly discovered and what the progression of the disease generally entails &mdash; Burchett said he feared, given events, that we&rsquo;d find staffers had stashed &ldquo;a quarter of a mil in some safety deposit box&rdquo; in exchange for autopen pardons they could basically get through with little to no oversight from a barely functional executive.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The matter will be decided in the courts, but I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll write somebody a strong letter,&rdquo; Burchett said about the constitutionality of Biden&rsquo;s actions late in his term.<\/p>\n<p>Burchett then went on to note that, when it came to selling pardons, &ldquo;Tennessee has had a history of this; we had a governor &hellip; he sold pardons. You can look it up. His name is Ray Blanton. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-juveniles-arrested-in-stabbing-death-of-15-year-old-in-la\/\" title=\"4 juveniles arrested in stabbing death of 15-year-old in La.\">made national news<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed it did; Blanton&rsquo;s staff reportedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars for commutations and pardons after he took office in 1975, including one for a convicted murderer who was in prison for 20 to 40 years but was out on work release, according to a 2023 retrospective on the scandal from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/2023\/05\/15\/murder-for-hire-paid-pardons-tenn-governors-buried-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WVLT<\/a> in Knoxville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>One Nashville TV anchor who broke the story recalled interviewing him about it: &ldquo;I say to Blanton, &lsquo;He&rsquo;s a convicted double murderer.&rsquo; And he said, &lsquo;Well, he hasn&rsquo;t killed anybody since he got out of prison.&rsquo;&rdquo; Lovely. Blanton didn&rsquo;t run for re-election in 1978 and was convicted in 1984 for mail fraud and extortion on unrelated matters; he served 22 months in prison and died in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between Blanton and Biden, of course, is that Blanton was in his right mind, just a criminal one, whereas Biden&rsquo;s mind &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wasting-no-time-cnn-helps-call-biden-cognition-questions-ignored-due-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being effectively gone<\/a>, at least for the level of cognition required for the job he was elected to do &mdash; was outsourced, wherein the problem lies.<\/p>\n<p>However, the &ldquo;cash for clemency&rdquo; regime of Blanton is, according to Burchett, &ldquo;exactly what I think you&rsquo;re going to find out&rdquo; with the autopen pardon\/clemency spree Biden went on in his final days in office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re going to find staffers that were able to take forms, get them, and run them through some sort of bogus legal system, and then they autopenned them,&rdquo; Burchett said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And there&rsquo;s people out on the street that shouldn&rsquo;t be, but somebody got rich off that. And I think those people &mdash; I hate to say it, but you&rsquo;ll see something probably horrible happen to some of those people because it goes up the chain. This is a very dangerous town to play games in.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Asked to elaborate further, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-rep-praying-mccarthy-former-speaker-reportedly-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burchett<\/a> noted: &ldquo;I have no direct proof of that, but I&rsquo;m just talking about history. You&rsquo;ve got somebody making $100,000 a year, and somebody offers you a quarter of a mil in some safety deposit box &hellip; yeah.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Burchett shook his head in dismay &mdash; as, indeed, we all would at the prospect:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepTimBurchett?\">@RepTimBurchett<\/a> says Autopen staffers were taking MASSIVE payoffs in exchange for pardons.<\/p>\n<p>This should be considered TREASONOUS.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Someone got rich.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WH6728YNUg\">pic.twitter.com\/WH6728YNUg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gunther Eagleman&trade; (@GuntherEagleman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuntherEagleman\/status\/1924929203142533625?\">May 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now again, as the kids like to say: Big if true. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and while very unusual coincidences can be pointed out &mdash; as Burchett is doing here &mdash; they are just that until the extraordinary evidence emerges: very unusual coincidences.<\/p>\n<p>That said, we <em>have<\/em> extraordinary (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/former-administration-thrown-bus-bidens-decline-call-cover-simplistic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and overwhelming<\/a>) evidence that massive subterfuge was necessary by a core group of individuals to convince the American people of something that wasn&rsquo;t true: that we had a functional president during Biden&rsquo;s term in office. We also know that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/george-clooney-shaken-core-behind-scenes-interaction-joe-biden-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially non-functional at the end<\/a>, yet was going on what even his own White House was advertising as the biggest clemency spree in the history of our republic.<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lie-doctors-weigh-aggressive-biden-cancer-diagnosis-story-doesnt-add\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Ricchetti<\/a> had taken down the stars and stripes and hoisted a giant crimson standard in its stead at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there couldn&rsquo;t be a bigger red flag coming from of the White House regarding these autopen pardons and clemencies.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what we now know, it&rsquo;s impossible to look into&nbsp;<em>everything&nbsp;<\/em>that happened in the four years of the Biden presidency. However, the possibility that the former president&rsquo;s numerous infirmities combined with the authority of the autopen turned the White House into Ray Blanton 2.0 in the administration&rsquo;s final days is one that can&rsquo;t be ignored. Attention must be paid, and not just by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-congressman-calling-arrest-james-comey-jaw-dropping-attack-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. 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This is indisputable. Recently, audio from Biden&#8217;s interview with special counsel Robert Hur was leaked, revealing a much more impaired mental state than the already concerning transcripts suggested. A comprehensive report by CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper and Axios&#8217; Alex Thompson confirmed that doubts about Biden&#8217;s mental capacity existed even before his 2020 presidential campaign, with trusted staff making significant decisions on his behalf to protect him. This raises questions about the documents he signed using an autopen-an electronic device used to replicate his signature-during the latter part of his presidency. Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett seeks clarity on this matter, especially considering recent revelations regarding Biden&#8217;s health status amid concerns over potential misconduct related to pardons issued during this time.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s clemency actions were notably extensive; he pardoned individuals including his son Hunter and made what was described as the largest single-day clemency grant in modern history in December 2024, preemptively pardoning several controversial figures from his administration. Among those granted clemency were individuals involved in serious crimes.<\/p>\n<p>In a podcast discussion about these issues and Biden&#8217;s declining health-particularly following a dubious Stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis-Burchett expressed concern that staffers may have exploited their positions for financial gain through autopen pardons without proper oversight of a compromised executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>He referenced historical instances of corruption involving pardons in Tennessee politics as potential parallels to what might be uncovered regarding Biden&#8217;s administration. While Burchett admitted he lacked direct evidence of wrongdoing, he highlighted how past behaviors could suggest similar patterns today.<\/p>\n<p>The implications are serious: if true, they could indicate significant abuses within the pardon process under Biden&#8217;s leadership at a time when questions about his cognitive abilities were mounting. 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