REPORT: Biden only hand-signed one pardon during final spree

June 6, 2025

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From Fox News: Former President Joe Biden only signed one pardon by hand during his final weeks in office, and it was his most controversial one.

The Justice Department is reviewing the list of people granted pardons by Biden amid new concerns about his use of an autopen to automatically sign documents and concerns about his state of mind and mental acuity in his final months in office.

Biden used his final weeks as commander in chief to grant clemency and pardon more than 1,500 people in what his White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency by a U.S. president.

Biden appears to have signed those final pardons, including preemptive pardons for members of his family, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley and members and staff of the House committee investigating Jan. 6.

But the former president signed one by hand for his son. Biden pardoned his son Hunter in December 2024 after vowing to the American people for months he would not do so.

During a White House press briefing earlier this week, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked whether it could be considered that the only pardon that would be authentic is the one Biden signed himself?

Watch below:

.@pdoocy points out that Biden’s AUTHENTIC signature only appears on ONE PARDON PAPERWORK, the others look to have had autopen signatures!🤔🫣

“Is this White House of the opinion that the only pardon that would count, is one that the president signed himself, for Hunter Biden?” pic.twitter.com/lTKudlXFwu

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 3, 2025

Biden only hand-signed one pardon during final spree, and it was his most controversial one https://t.co/lS5dK7dN2G

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 5, 2025