Why Biden’s controversial NY Times interview about autopen matters

The New York Times clashed with Biden’s White House for the refusal to grant interviews with his journalists during his presidency, but former President Joe Bider finally ran to the newspaper this month while President Donald Trump and GOP legislators put a severe projector on his use of an automatic.

The interview was largely turned, many suggesting that times have buried the most crucial part of his own story, and he had mainly done more harm than good for Biden. Now, the Gray Lady faces generalized criticism and the Trump administration will investigate the legality of the Pardons de Biden in the last days of her presidency, which were mainly signed with the help of an automatic.

Fox News Digital breaks down exactly what happened – from the newspaper’s call for more access to Biden to the counter coupling that the Times is currently receiving.

Former President Biden finally spoke to the New York Times. (Reuters / Shannon Stapleton / Getty images)

What happened:

The lack of availability of Biden Press Irks: The New York Times explodes Biden to avoid the questions ” of journalists

• President Biden’s team kept it widely kidnapped press conferences and Sit-Down interviews, in particular compared to its predecessors Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
• The New York Times published a shared declaration in April 2024, calling Biden to its unprecedented lack of access to the media during its mandate.
• “For anyone who understands the role of the Free Press in a democracy, it should be disturbing that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided the questions of independent journalists during his mandate,” said Times, before suggesting that Biden could create a “dangerous precedent” to avoid examination and responsibility.
• Politico published a story on the “Petty Feud” between the Times and Biden team last April, with its officials and its campaign team calling employees of “law” newspapers.

More in power: Biden finally speaks to the gray lady

• After dodging New York Times journalists for an interview in all his presidency outside a cat in 2021 with a columnist, Biden spoke to journalists from the newspaper during a phone call ten minutes earlier this month concerning the growing questions of Biden’s pardity of the pardons using an autopen.
• The rare interview was published on July 13.
• Trump’s attacks on Biden about the use of an autopen intervene after the surveillance project with a conservative reflection group The Heritage Foundation published a report on March 6, claiming that it had made a Biden documents analysis and found that a majority of documents signed during his administration used an autopen.

Gray Lady focuses on Biden’s discussion points: Criticism on time framing

• Time Print the title“Biden says he has made Clémence’s decisions that were recorded with Autopen.”
• Biden insisted on the fact that he “made each decision” by himself and called Trump and other republican criticisms “liars”, reported the Times.
• However, the Times reported in the 32nd paragraph of the long history that Biden “did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons which applied to a large number of people”, quoting the former president and his collaborators.
• Times was also criticized for having buried in history that the Chief of Staff Jeff Zients was the one who sometimes gave the final approval for the use of the autopen, awaiting the last line to note that the forgiveness of Hunter Biden is the one he physically signed.
• Some criticisms said that in -depth reports in history contradict the opening paragraphs.

Former President Joe Biden spoke with journalists from the newspaper during a ten -minute phone call concerning growing questions about the legality of the Pardons in the last days of his presidency, which were mainly signed using an autopen. (Doj / getty)

Potus answers: Trump explodes Biden

• Asked about the Times report, Trump told journalists White House On Monday, the alleged use of Biden of the Autopen may be represented “one of the biggest scandals we had in 50 to 100 years”. “I guarantee you that he didn’t know anything about what he signed, I guarantee you,” said Trump.
• Trump told journalists in March that he uses an autopen for correspondence, it is “shameful” to use one when signing documents such as pardons.

Announced probe: The White House will investigate the use of Biden d’Autopen

• The White House is currently investigating the use by Biden of the Autopen, senior administration officials indicating to Fox News Digital that they already examine tens of thousands of documents returned by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
• Officials told Fox News Digital that the White House lawyer’s office led the investigation, but said they were coordinating with the Ministry of Justice.
• “Joe Biden was the most incompetent president and senile president in the history of our country,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “It was largely reported that Joe Biden presented the power of the presidency to an autopen controlled by non -elected leftist employees, who were authorized to make terrible decisions that destroyed our country.”

Modern technology: What is an automatic and how does it work?

• An automatic is a device that physically holds a pen and is programmed to reproduce a person’s signature. It is not a stamp or a digitized printing of someone’s signature, and various autopen machines have the capacity to contain different types of pens, ranging from the ball to the permanent marker, according to the descriptions of the autopen machines available for purchase.

President Donald Trump called for an investigation into the use of former Biden president of Autopen. (Reuters; AP)

Perrocketing the gray lady: Contre to the other taken reflects the controversial times framing

• Independent journalist Drew Holden published a long thread on X Tuesday by reducing the time to “repeat Biden’s assertion that he made the calls” and buried the admission he “did not really do it”. Holden then distinguished other media, notably ABC News, CBS news, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Huffpost, Yahoo News and The Daily Beast, to peddle reports and bury the unflattering reports which indicated that Biden did not always make the decisions itself.

Media childcare dogs react: Biden develops a “sympathetic” source that would arouse a friendly aggregation

• DEPAUW University’s journalism professor Jeffrey McCall suspected that Biden managers have decided to turn to Times to combat automatic controversy because the newspaper is the “main agenda for the sphere of news” and that other inherited media would follow his example.
• Tim Young, a media scholarship holder for strategic communications at the Heritage Foundation, thinks that Biden spoke with Times because it was a practical way to postpone criticism.
• “Biden finally seated with the New York Times because his white house was exhibited by the Gop house and The surveillance project Because he literally does not know what leniency or forgiveness orders have been signed. It is quite clear that the pressure was based on his former staff in what could have been a real constitutional crisis – while the left likes to shout – and the team “ deployed it ” to finish it before the repercussions begin to build, “Young told Fox News Digital.
• The editor -in -chief of Newsbusters, Curtis Houck, told Fox News Digital that the Times report was “embarrassing”, and the political commentator Mark Halperin argued that the Times had ignored journalistic standards by not including the opinions of experts and republicans on Biden’s statements concerning his use of the autopen.

Fox News Digital contacted the New York Times to comment.

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Fox News Digital Brooke Singman, Andrea Margolis, Diana Stancy and Mark Tamasco contributed to this report.