criteria then yes they can be pardoned.

Now suppose that checked out. I don't know if that will check out but suppose it did. Would it still be a scandal? Would there be any crime involved if Biden had said, "Look, as long as the recommendation goes through these channels—you know, let's say people he trusts—and if they haven't committed this set of crimes, you know, and I'm just speculating here, maybe he said I'm not going to pardon anybody for this kind of crime, and I'm not going to do any Republicans." And it has to be looked at by a member of my staff who I trust. And if you do all of that—and again, I'm only speculating here—if you do all of that, then yes, you have my permission to use the autopen and pardon them.

Would that be criminal? Would there be any scandal there? I feel like the autopen thing—oh, there is an Otto Penn in the comments. There's a social media account that is literally Otto Penn. Is that real or is that somebody pretending that that's his name? I don't know. But yeah, there's an Otto Penn.

The pardon power cannot be delegated. That would not be delegated. If you put me on a jury and you said that Biden gave some guidelines and said that if he meets these guidelines, you know, I approve it, then I would not say that that is the autopen making the decision or the staff. That's still Biden. So I'm not sure. I just don't see this as as big a scandal as the rest of you do. There might be more to it.

If we found out, for example, that some of the people being pardoned had bribed a member of the staff and then a member of the staff snuck it past Biden, that would be a problem. But it would be a problem for the person who got pardoned and the person who okayed it. It wouldn't really be Biden's legal liability, would it? Yeah.

So autopen to me feels like it's delegated.

Victor Davis Hanson was talking about John Brennan and he noted that Brennan was culpable in two or maybe three of the biggest scandals of our time. And I can remember two of them but not the third. So two of them are the Russia collusion hoax. You know, Brennan was probably the key architect of that. And then the Hunter laptop was a Russia misinformation and we know Brennan was involved in that.

But the one that I have more question on is whatever Brennan did about Ukraine. Some people say that Brennan was somehow involved in the change of government in Ukraine and maybe that led to the war, but I don't think that's well documented. I think Victor Davis Hanson's opinion is that Brennan was behind the idea that Trump is too cozy with Putin and that that might have reduced our options for avoiding a war with Ukraine and Russia. Somehow that handicapped us in some way. I don't follow that line of reasoning, but Brennan is really at the center of some bad stuff allegedly. So we'll see.

Rasmussen did a poll, and this is just unbelievable. So Rasmussen just has a poll, a brand new one, that 60% of Democrats believe it is likely that the Trump campaign collu