HOW IT STARTED: “It is not clear if Biden gave the green light to the acts of clemency that night on January 16, however, the exchange suggests that the Biden aides instead took action on what Posada said Biden ‘intended’ to do. The three documents signed early the next morning were for around 2,500 commutations. Biden has since said that the autopen was used to sign the clemency documents because there were ‘a lot of them,’ but there were only three documents that day that were signed with the autopen.”

How It’s Going: Trump pardons Giuliani, Powell, Chesebro and dozens more involved in 2020 ‘fake electors’ case. “President Trump granted pardons for 77 individuals tied to a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election – including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, the White House announced late Sunday night.”