"Biden didn't know who he was pardoning!", says Trump, who doesn't know who he's pardoning
By Ponderer November 4, 2025 7:25 am Category: Original Fiction
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The GOP claimed Biden didn’t know whom he was pardoning. Trump now admits he doesn’t know whom he’s pardoning
House Republicans issued a report last week suggesting Joe Biden wasn’t really calling the shots as president. And they argued that his presidential pardons epitomized this dynamic.
Biden appeared so disengaged from the process, the House Oversight Committee’s report claimed, that it called into question “the validity of all pardons reportedly granted” by him.
House Speaker Mike Johnson later said Biden mass-pardoned people without knowing “what the categories were apparently — much less the individual people that he pardoned.”
But President Donald Trump now says he didn’t know much about one of his own most controversial recent pardons — that of Changpeng Zhao, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
The president also emphasized that he was relying on things people around him said.
“I don’t know who he is,” Trump said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday. He soon added that he knew “nothing about it.”
Back on October 23, Trump offered similar comments. When pressed on the pardon by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Trump didn’t seem to know who Collins was asking about, despite the pardon having been issued the very same day.
“Oh, the recent one, yes,” Trump said when Collins refreshed his memory. “I believe we’re talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people.”
(In fact, Zhao was the only person Trump had pardoned that week.)
The GOP’s fixation on Biden and his use of the autopen has long strained the known facts. The argument seems to be that Biden’s actions were invalid because he supposedly wasn’t making the decisions.
But Trump keeps complicating that message by disclaiming his own role in and knowledge of major decisions — the kinds of things a president should be aware of. It’s not just pardons; he’s done it repeatedly with major foreign policy decisions.
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