Joe Kovacs was in full Trump Regime Media stenography mode in a March 17 WorldNetDaily article:
President Donald Trump on Monday declared a vast list of pardons issued by Joe Biden on his way out the door of the White House to be “VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT.”
It is because those pardons, to a long list of his own family members, prominently including son Hunter Biden who was convicted of gun charge felonies and pleaded guilty to a list of tax charges and was facing possible prison time, were “done by Autopen.”
On the social media site Truth Social, Trump confirmed:
The “Pardons” that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!”
WND had reported only hours earlier how Trump brought attention again to the allegations that some of Biden’s orders and pardons might not be worth anything due to his cognitive decline.
Because WND has completely abandoned anything resembling actual journalism, Kovacs’ job is to serve as a servile stenographer to Trump. Thus, he won’t tell you that nothing Trump said has any legal force:
However, the U.S. Constitution makes it clear that the president has unique executive powers to issue pardons and makes no provision for subsequent presidents to rescind them — for issues relating to the choice of pen or anything else.
Jeffrey Crouch, a politics professor at American University and author of the book “The Presidential Pardon Power,” said he doubted that Trump’s characterization of the pardons as “void” would have any legal effect.
“Biden’s pardons are highly unlikely to be revoked somehow because of the apparent use of an autopen,” he told NBC News.
“There are scattered examples throughout history of clemency decisions that were never completed. But the idea that a completed pardon could be revoked is a highly unusual suggestion,” Crouch added.
You see, the truth would interfere with WND’s pro-Trump propaganda.