Monday Update： July 14, 2025
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Summary
A bombshell report from the New York Times reveals that Joe Biden did not sign off on all of the pardons. President Trump lashes out at President Trump for claiming that the pardon process was carried out without his approval.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday,
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July 14th. Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
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The New York Times over the weekend deciding they wanted to start doing some real journalism.
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Imagine that, the New York Times doing real journalism with a bombshell report revealing
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that Joe Biden did not sign off on all of the pardons. Joe Biden deciding to sit down with
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the radical leftist organization to do an interview, not entirely sure why he'd want to do it,
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but he defended the use of his auto pen in that interview.
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The New York Times reviewed some of the emails that the National Archives had handed over to Trump
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DOJ as part of their investigation into the auto pen scandal. The emails revealed that Biden's
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staffer made decisions to sign the pardons with the auto pen without directly hearing the order
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from Joe Biden. Joe Biden told the New York Times that he, quote, orally granted all the pardons
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and the commutations issued at the end of his term, lashed out at President Trump as a liar,
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for claiming that the auto pen was used without his authorization.
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Now, as we've just figured out, it was revealed that Joe Biden did not approve each name for the
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pardons. And after changes were made about specific inmates, Biden did not sign off on the revised list.
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Rather, his aides just ran their final version through the auto pen without Joe Biden's approval.
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The New York Times writes, quote, Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the
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categorical pardons that applied to the large numbers of people he and his aides confirmed.
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Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards
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he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduced sentence.
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Even after Mr. Biden made that decision, one former aides at the Bureau of Prisons
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kept providing initial information about specific inmates, resulting in small changes to the list.
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Rather than ask Mr. Biden to keep signing revisions, his staff waited and then ran the final version
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through the auto pen, which they saw as routine procedure. Imagine that, routine procedure to pardon
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convicted felons, at least according to the Biden administration. So this thing is just getting
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worse and worse and worse and worse. President Trump was asked about it this afternoon. The Oval
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Office, take a listen to what he had to say. Look, the auto pen, I think, is maybe one of the biggest
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scandals that we've had in 50 to 100 years. This is a tremendous scandal. And I know the people on the
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other side of the, see that desk, that Resolute desk? Unfortunately, he used it before me.
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You know, we have our choice of seven desks. They're all beautiful. But I chose the Resolute
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and so did he, unfortunately. But the people on the other side of the Resolute desk, I know them.
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Lisa, the whole group, and they're no good. They're sick people. And I guarantee he knew
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nothing about what he was signing. I guarantee it.
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President Trump also in the Oval Office this morning talking about Russia. President Trump
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giving Russia 50 days to strike a peace deal with Ukraine before he enacts a secondary tariff
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at 100 percent, which he says will cripple them economically. Take a listen to the president and
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what he had to say in his threat for Vladimir Putin.
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One of the reasons that you're here today is to hear that we are very unhappy, I am,
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with Russia. But we'll discuss that maybe a different day. But we're very,
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very unhappy with them. And we're going to be doing very severe tariffs. If we don't have a
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deal in 50 days, tariffs at about 100 percent, you'd call them secondary tariffs. You know what
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that means. But today we're going to talk about something else. And as you know, we've spent
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$350 billion approximately on this war with Russia and Ukraine. I would like to see it end. It
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wasn't my war. It was Biden's war. It's not my war. I'm trying to get you out of it.
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And we want to see it end. And I'm disappointed in President Putin because I thought we would have
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had a deal two months ago, but it doesn't seem to get there. So based on that, we're going to be
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doing secondary tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days. It's very simple. And they'll be at 100
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percent. And that's the way it is. It can be more simple. It's just the way it is. I hope we don't
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have to do it. And there you have it. The ball is now in the court of Vladimir Putin. Convicted
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sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly ready and willing to testify before the U.S. Congress
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about the full extent of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal empire and the powerful men who participated in it.
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The Daily Mail is reporting that she has not been offered any plea deal, nor has she been contacted
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by any U.S. officials about providing testimony, something she would reportedly welcome. She'd be
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more than happy to sit down with Congress and tell her story, according to a close source familiar
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with the situation. She's currently serving a 20-year sentence in Tallahassee State Prison in Florida
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for, of course, her role in grooming and trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein and his network
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of high-powered friends, which includes billionaires, politicians, academics, and royalty. Yet to date,
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not a single Epstein client has been charged. Make that make sense. Congress is reportedly looking at
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blocking her testimony. I can't figure out why they would want to do such a thing. We can get this
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thing done once and for all very simply. I can't imagine what sick person in Congress would be
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blocking testimony. We can find out who preyed on children and who the pedophiles are in our
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government and in Hollywood, perhaps. Folks, please be sure to join us each and every night,
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6 p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show. 6 p.m. Eastern, Rumble, YouTube, Twitter,
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wherever you join us. We'll see you there tonight, 6 p.m. I'm John Fosso with this Midday Update. Have a