Having successfully distracted the world from the Epstein files by starting WWIII, Trump no longer feels it necessary to keep up previous, failed distraction campaignshttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/doj-shelves-biden-autopen-probe-rcna261810The Justice Department shelved an investigation into former President Joe Biden's use of an autopen, a person briefed on the matter told NBC News on Wednesday. Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin, the former “weaponization” czar, opened the probe while he was interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. It wound down recently under Jeanine Pirro, the current U.S. attorney, who is a longtime Trump ally and former Fox News host.The New York Times first reported the news.The autopen case was never presented to a grand jury, unlike the case that Pirro's office tried to bring forward last month against six members of Congress who participated in a social media video that urged members of the military and intelligence communities not to follow unlawful orders.It is difficult to bring a criminal case when there is not even a readily identifiable and applicable criminal statute, the person briefed on the matter said.The White House referred an inquiry about the matter to the Justice Department. A spokesman for Pirro’s office, citing Justice Department policy, said the office does not confirm or deny the existence of criminal probes.
President Donald Trump in June demanded a wide-ranging investigation into Biden and officials in his administration after he claimed that Biden's aides used "autopen" signatures to hide Biden's "cognitive decline."The Republican-led House Oversight Committee investigated Biden's use of an autopen, writing in a report in October that some executive actions he signed with an autopen were "illegitimate," because he suffered from mental decline and could have been unaware of the contents.Trump, who has repeatedly claimed that Biden used an autopen on many of his executive orders, said in November that he was canceling executive orders signed using Biden’s autopen.It's unclear how often Biden used an autopen, as there is no official government record of when it is used. In a statement in June, Biden responded to Trump’s claims, saying, "Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.”"I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations," he said in the statement. "Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false."Biden's use of the autopen was investigated as Trump has directed the Justice Department to investigate a number of his political foes since he returned to office.The Justice Department tried to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. A federal judge tossed out the criminal charges against both in November.It also sent out criminal subpoenas in January to various state and local government offices in Minnesota, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, claiming they conspired to impede law enforcement during its immigration operations there. Neither have been charged, and legal experts have widely condemned an investigation that they say is based on a flimsy legal premise and has a chilling effect on free speech.
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BIDEN IS IRRELEVANT NOW, LET HIM DIE IN PEACETRUMP LIKELY HAS ALAZHEIMERS (THATS THE LEADING THEORY FOR HIS HANDS AND NECK ARE SHOWING SIGNS OF INTRAVENOUS DRUG USE) IT WOULD BE A BAD PRECEDENT TO SET FOR TRUMP TO PUNISH BIDENS TEAM FOR REAGANING HIM. TRUMP IS FAST APPROACHING THAT POINT.YOUNGER MEN SHOULD LEAD US.
>>1494409Imagine becoming this far right
>>1494409Thanks for teaching me a new word I like it.Pablum: "So insipid it's babyfood"Fantastic lexeme.
>>1494409You mean the fake autopen investigation?Trump isn't a leftist, anon
>>14944184chan should never have gotten rid of textboards - they raise our vocabulary.
It's okay, they shelved the Epstein investigation because of this shiny new war.
>>1494421agreed. /mlpol/ remained as a text board after the April Fool's prank, and it was the best board on this site for awhile.
>>1494427weird revisionism. I think anon was talking about the old textboards from the longlongago (2005-2008), and not your 2017 bullshit.
>>1494427You didn't nta, that's rude
>>1494407They should re-open this, but against trump since auto pen signatures don't count and no way in hell he signed all the pardons.
I call it "My-Pen"
>>1494430Yes, I was Oldfagging and I don’t know anything about /mlp/.
This reminds meWhatever happened to that bombshell, world shaking proof that Trump had of Obama committing treason that he just happened to announce six hours after WSJ broke the story about his creepy little love letter to Epstein?
>>1494609Don’t worry about it. Trump is winning the war in Iran that Iran started. Stop talking about the Epstein files ok?!
>>1494609https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-accuses-obama-treason-oval-office/story?id=123963917>TL:DR>Nothing happened
>>1494457Id salute you properly if I knew how but I'm just a transient anon.*Salute*
>>1494454>I call it "My-Pen"I I doubt it, Hair Müller. I bet little Marco get the first dibs on that pen
>>1494454>>1494696Namefags
>>1494407>It is difficult to bring a criminal case when there is not even a readily identifiable and applicable criminal statute, the person briefed on the matter said.You would have to prove they a specific person at specific times used the autopen without Biden's permission. The thing about autopens and signature stamps is the (manager's) secretary unusually has possession of the stamp and uses their boss's signature on a lot of things that the boss gave the secretary blanket approval for. This is a pretty common thing. And even without the blanket approval it is too easy of a defense to say they had prior verbal approval to sign the specific thing.
