‘Making money off of it’: DOJ’s Ed Martin names names in autopen scandal
It turns out Ed Martin, the Justice Department’s director of the Weaponization Working Group, before he left the office of interim U.S. attorney for D.C., had begun an investigation into the last-minute “autopen” pardons of then-President Joe Biden.
And now Martin is naming names and identifying people in the former administration who were presidential “gatekeepers.”
On Tuesday, Martin talked to journalist Mark Halperin on the streaming show “2WAY Tonight.”
Martin said the investigation had been underway for weeks and that as part of it, he has reached out to Biden family members. He also noted that some persons of interested have already begun to “lawyer up.”
“I had a whistleblower in my office 10 day ago – senior, senior Democrat – saying, ‘Look, it was these three people that controlled access, and they were making money off of it,'” Martin told Halperin. “I don’t know if I believe it yet, but the point is, I think, we have to get to the bottom of it for the American people and to protect the process, and that’s what we’re doing.”
Martin indicated that the whistleblower he spoke to was involved with the 2020 Biden campaign at the highest levels.
Though refusing to name the actual alleged exploiters in the autopen scandal, Martin provided Halperin with the names of “gatekeepers” who were “dominant characters in the White House.”
As reported at The Blaze, Martin identified the following three “gatekeepers”: Ron Klain, Biden’s White House chief of staff from 2021 to 2023 who returned to the fold last year amid Biden’s debate preparation; former senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn; and Barack Obama’s former personal attorney Robert Bauer.
Martin also mentioned Steve Ricchetti, former counselor to Biden who previously served as chairman of his 2020 presidential campaign, and “obviously Jill [Biden].”
As WND reported, President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed an investigation into the Biden administration’s use of the autopen, the electronic presidential signature device, as he said, “This government was illegally run for four years.”
As Trump appeared at the U.S. Capitol to rally support for his “big, beautiful bill” to lower taxes, Trump discussed at length the problems created by a mentally incapacitated Biden.
“We’re gonna start looking into this whole thing with who signed this legislation,” Trump said.
“Who signed legislation opening our border? I don’t think he knew. I said there’s nobody that could want an open border. Nobody. And now I find out that it wasn’t him. He autopenned it.
“Who was operating the autopen? This is a very serious thing. We had a president that didn’t sign anything and he autopenned almost everything.”
Martin initially was Trump’s nominee as the permanent D.C. U.S. attorney, but his name was pulled after opposition by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of Oklahoma.
‘This government was illegally run for 4 years’: Trump vows probe into Biden autopen