Former President Joe Biden told the New York Times that he granted his staff the use of his autopen because he “had granted clemency to so many people.” For the first time in an interview with the NYT,

Former President Joe Biden is escalating his battle against Republican claims that he might not have been in control of high-profile clemency decisions issued under his name at the end of his term and,

Former President Biden insisted that he authorized the wide use of his signature via autopen at the very end of his presidency, according to a rare interview that the New York Times published Sunday evening.

President Joe Biden defended his use of an autopen in a recent NYT interview, offering insight into his administration’s reasoning behind the controversial practice.

The former president said he “made every single one of those” decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because “they’ve done so badly” and wanted to shift the focus.