Ed Martin, a pardon attorney and head of the Department of Justice’s weaponization task force, is launching an official investigation into former President Joe Biden’s pardons issued in the waning days of his failed presidency.
This, according to an email sent to staff on Monday.
Martin will delve into the question of whether or not Biden “was competent and whether others were taking advantage of him through use of AutoPen or other means,” according to the message obtained by Reuters.
The focus of the bombshell investigation will be on the sweeping pardons granted to members of the Biden family. It will also encompass the 37 individuals who had death row sentences converted to life in prison.
Joe Biden, roughly 48 hours before Donald Trump was sworn in as President for the second time, issued preemptive pardons on a “full and unconditional” basis for his family members – James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden – backdated to 2014.
He did the same for Hunter Biden a month earlier.
The then-outgoing President also commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. The sweeping series of pardons and commutations was concerning, having been issued by a man who six months earlier had been exposed as seriously cognitively impaired on the debate stage.
He wasn’t competent enough to dress himself