Facing questions about his mental acuity, the former president told The New York Times he made all clemency decisions.

The so-called autopen scandal appears to be getting worse for former President Joe Biden as more information comes to light.

Former President Joe Biden, in an interview with the New York Times, said that he personally made every clemency and pardon decision during the end of his presidency.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has argued some of the pardons and sentence commutations issued by President Joe Biden before he left office in January 2025 are likely legally "null and void" because they were signed off using an autopen en masse without Biden's explicit consent for each individual.

On Biden’s final day as president, January 19, he met with his advisors until almost 10 p.m. to discuss different preemptive pardons, according to the Times. According to emails acquired by the Times, at 10:03 p.m., an aide gave Zient’s assistant a summary draft of the official decisions made at the meeting.

Joe Biden, like Punxsutawney Phil, emerged from his hole on Monday to explain his latest post-presidential crisis, the autopen. He saw the shadow of the wreckage of his former administration, so I guess that means six more months of scandal.

Joe Biden said every pardon and commutation he issued was his decision, calling Republican "liars" for alleging his aides illegally used an autopen.

In his final hours, former US President Biden's chief of staff authorized an autopen to sign high-profile pardons, including those for Fauci and Mille

Trump has repeatedly referred to Biden's use of the autopen as "one of the biggest scandals" in political history.