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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Biden denies white house aides granted clemency without his knowledge | History Defined

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Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House on 30 September 2024. ‘Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency,’ he said in June 2025. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Joe Biden has denied claims that his circle of aides acted without his knowledge when he granted a slew of pardons and commutations in the final days and hours of his presidency.

“I made every single one of those,” the former president told the New York Times in an interview published on Sunday when asked about claims that he was incapacitated and unaware of clemency decisions. Biden called the people making those claims “liars”, adding, “They know it.”

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