{"id":14990,"date":"2025-03-17T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=14990"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:45:20","slug":"mega-scandal-whoever-controlled-the-autopen-controlled-the-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=14990","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>MEGA SCANDAL!!! Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency.\u201d<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14993\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-17-at-9.24.24-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-17-at-9.24.24-AM.png 521w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-17-at-9.24.24-AM-300x276.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>US President Donald Trump has claimed that pardons signed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, lack legal force, alleging they were never properly considered and authorized.<\/h3>\n<h3>Shortly before leaving office, Biden granted preemptive clemency to several political figures, including members of the Congressional select committee for the Capitol Hill riot of January 6, 2021, who his administration argued might face unwarranted prosecution under the second Trump presidency.<\/h3>\n<h3>In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump dismissed the pardons as\u00a0<em>\u201cVOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0claiming that\u00a0<em>\u201cBiden did not sign them but, more importantly, he was completely unaware of them!\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/614340-trump-biden-pardons-void\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/614340-trump-biden-pardons-void\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}