Jeanine Pirro scrambles to confirm 'ongoing' autopen probe amid pressure from Trump
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro was eager to dispute reports that she had failed to follow through with President Donald Trump's demand that she prosecute members of former President Joe Biden's administration over the use of the autopen.
Three people familiar with the investigations told The New York Times that Pirro had been unable to make a case against former Biden officials.
"The department’s failure to build a criminal case against Mr. Biden and his aides is the latest example of its increasing inability to follow through on Mr. Trump’s demands and bring indictments against those he wants to be criminally targeted," the paper noted on Wednesday. "But the fact that prosecutors even pursued the matter to begin with reflects the degree to which Mr. Trump has sought to use the levers of government to undermine Mr. Biden’s presidency by seizing on an unsubstantiated theory: that the pardons Mr. Biden issued in his final months in office were invalid because he did not have the mental capacity to consent to them."
On Thursday, Pirro sought to deny that she had given up on prosecuting those who used the autopen.
"We cannot comment on ongoing investigations," she wrote in response to reporting from the Times.
"The Trump DOJ has been an absolute failure!! Excuses, zero consequences!!" one conservative commenter told Pirro on X. "Not a single criminal politician arrested or convicted! We have been lied to again!! Fire @AGPamBondi!"
"You can't comment anyways, because you have *no case*. Give us a break," another person replied.