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Trump says Biden pardon for Bennie Thompson, Jan. 6 investigators used autopen, is 'void'

Mar 17, 2025 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -37% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Biden announced many pre-emptive pardons on Monday, Jan. 20, the day Trump was inaugurated.
36% : When asked if the pardons would hold up in court, Trump said, "It's not my decision; that'll be up to a court.
36% : They said committee members and their families have been targeted with violent threats and political prosecution and imprisonment.
26% : A January 6 Capitol rioter from Tennessee, recently among the 1500 pardoned by Trump, should still be sentenced and punished, the DOJ said.
22% : Trump told reporters that his administration uses an autopen for letters "but to sign pardons and all of the things he signed with an autopen, it's disgraceful.
22% : Special counsel Jack Smith said in his final report that there was enough evidence to convict Trump on charges of illegally trying to stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election.
21% : Smith said his team also considered charging Trump under the Insurrection Act.
20% : " Trump put forward a baseless theory that Biden was unaware of what the documents said and others created the pardon's without then-president's knowledge.
16% : The final 800-page report put the blame on Trump.
13% : Trump alleged that Biden signing the documents with an autopen instead of by hand rendered the pardons void when talking with reporters on Sunday night.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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