by Natalia Mittelstadt
A total of 52% of voters want former President Biden’s aides prosecuted for allegedly unauthorized use of his autopen, according to a new poll.
Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Monday that found 52% of voters believe Biden’s aides should face criminal prosecution for unauthorized actions during his administration, with 32% who disagreed and 17% who were unsure.
A total of 55% of likely voters said it is likely that, while Biden was president, his White House staff used the autopen to sign documents without his knowledge or approval. Meanwhile, 33% do not believe that happened, while 12% were not sure.
Broken down by party, 75% of Republicans, 36% of Democrats, and 44% of unaffiliated voters said that Biden’s aides should be criminally prosecuted.
The poll follows the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s report last week that concluded, “as President Biden’s [mental and physical] condition deteriorated, his aides exercised presidential authority and facilitated executive actions without his direct authorization, including misusing the autopen and failing to properly document decision-making processes.”
Representative James Comer (R-KY-01) previously told Just the News that the pardons Biden issued with an autopen should be “declared null and void.”
“These were all done during the lame duck period when, when Joe Biden was checked out. I think the executive orders that were done during the lame duck period should be declared null and void,” he said.
“I think anything that’s a legal document the president should have to sign,” he told the outlet. “Obviously, you’re going to use the auto pen for certificates of achievement, for mass letters, for correspondence. But with respect to legal documents, a pardon, a presidential pardon is a powerful thing.”
The poll of 1,157 U.S. likely voters was conducted Oct. 28-30, with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.
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Natalia Mittelstadt is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
