Biden defends the automatic use of leniency actions in the midst of republican criticism

Former President Joe Biden defended his use of an automatic during a recent interview, highlighting the reason for his administration for the controversial use of technology.

Interview with the New York Times was centered on his use of an autopen during the last pardons he made at the end of his administration.

During his last weeks in power, Biden has granted leniency and pardoned more than 1,500 people, in what the White House described at the time as the biggest act of leniency in one day by an American president.

Addressing The Times on Thursday, Biden said that he “made each decision” by himself.

Here are Biden’s most controversial pardons, most signed using Autopen

In the past few weeks in office, President Joe Biden has granted a leniency and pardoned more than 1,500 people. (Samuel Corum / Sipa / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“We are talking about (granting a leniency to) many people,” said the Democrat.

However, the Times reported that Biden “had not individually approved each name for the categorical pardons that applied to a large number of people,” said the former president and his aid.

“Rather, after an in -depth discussion on different possible criteria, (Biden) signed the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convict would qualify for a reduction in sentence,” said the Times report.

Instead of asking the president several times to resign updated versions of official documents, his staff used an autopen to put Biden’s signature on the final version.

Biden’s comments came while the Republicans attacked it for its automatic use on a massive number of official documents.

In June, President Donald Trump sent a memo to the Ministry of Justice, ordering the Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the use of the autopen and to determine whether it was linked to a reduction in the mental state of Biden.

The American president Joe Biden shouts to the press while leaving the 102nd national ceremony for the lighting of Christmas trees on the ellipse on December 5, 2024 in Washington, DC (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

Biden signed only one forgiveness in the final wave, and it was his most controversial

“In recent months, he has become more and more obvious that the aid of former president Biden have abused the power of presidential signatures thanks to the use of an autopen to hide the cognitive decline of Biden and affirm the authority of article II,” wrote Trump.

“This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerned scandals in American history. The American public deliberately protected to discover who exercised the executive power, while being the signature of Biden.

Still in June, Trump told journalists that he thought he was “inappropriate” to use an autopen at all, although the former presidents used them.

“Usually when they put documents before you, they are important,” said Trump. “Even if you sign ambassadors or – and I consider it important, I think it’s inappropriate.”

The use of President Joe Biden of an autopen was criticized by the Republicans. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

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“You have someone who devotes four years of his life or more to a ambassador. I think you really deserve that this person deserves a real signature … not an automatic signature.”

Breanne Deppisch of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.