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Eugene

(67,044 posts)
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 08:59 AM 11 hrs ago

Jeanine Pirro's failure to indict Biden speaks to something bigger

Source: MS NOW

Jeanine Pirro’s failure to indict Biden speaks to something bigger

The Fox News host turned U.S. attorney has had a string of public setbacks in her efforts to prosecute Trump’s enemies.

Mar. 7, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
By Hayes Brown

It’s been a rough start to the year for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington. Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News host turned top federal prosecutor, has endured a string of embarrassing setbacks since January. According to the most recent reports, Pirro’s office shelved its effort to indict former President Joe Biden for his use of an autopen to sign executive actions while in office. Her office reportedly couldn’t assemble anything even resembling a criminal case.

The autopen inquiry, such as it was, was just the latest collapsed effort from Pirro to punish President Donald Trump’s enemies. Her failures are a sign that even as the Justice Department has fallen under the White House’s control, the law still doesn’t automatically bend to his will. And Trump’s vendettas remain stalled out. The limits to his power have become a little clearer.

As if in the market for a new conspiracy, some Republicans have attempted to make hay out of Biden’s autopen usage. In short, Trump and others have claimed without evidence that Biden aides essentially forged the former president’s signature on executive orders toward the end of his term. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., went so far as to claim last year that “Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.” The supposed scandal has even become something of a meme within the Trump White House, as showcased on the recently installed so-called Wall of Fame where Trump replaced Biden’s portrait with an autopen.

Trump was anything but subtle about his demands that Biden be investigated for, well, something autopen-related. In June, he issued a memo to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding the Justice Department investigate whether the autopen was part of a grand plot to hide the former president’s alleged cognitive decline. (Biden has denied Trump’s claims, saying last year in a statement, “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.”)

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Read more: https://www.ms.now/opinion/jeanine-pirro-biden-autopen-investigation

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Jeanine Pirro's failure to indict Biden speaks to something bigger (Original Post) Eugene 11 hrs ago OP
She can't be this stupid PhilosopherKing 11 hrs ago #1
I think it's "Whatever Donny wants, Donny gets". tanyev 7 hrs ago #7
Jeanine is usually too drunk to indict anyone. paleotn 10 hrs ago #2
This is not really her but it's funny anyway underpants 10 hrs ago #5
She's an idiot PJMcK 10 hrs ago #3
For what?.... Lovie777 10 hrs ago #4
17 - Failed Grand Jury Indictments by Porto's DC office by my count underpants 9 hrs ago #6

PhilosopherKing

(415 posts)
1. She can't be this stupid
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 09:01 AM
11 hrs ago

Is she self sabotaging because she knows it is all bullshit? Just a thought.

tanyev

(49,095 posts)
7. I think it's "Whatever Donny wants, Donny gets".
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:47 PM
7 hrs ago

Why there are people willing to do that, I don’t know.

underpants

(196,022 posts)
6. 17 - Failed Grand Jury Indictments by Porto's DC office by my count
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 10:43 AM
9 hrs ago

6 Senators and Reps
3 times each for felony convictions of the sandwich guy and the woman who was pinned against a wall and didn’t hold still so she could be punched in the face.
I could look up the others but I’m pretty sure it’s 17 total. One, as I understand it, is an embarrassment that follows you through your career.


Trump is heavily influenced by influencers who often get themes from Miller and others in the inner circle. Once he sees or heard something and repeats it, it becomes gospel in MAGA world. Then it snowballs into memes on X Facebook etc. it’s a circular snowballing effect and the more support (and fealty) Trump gets, the more right he is.

The Powell thing is a perfect example. He was so sure he was right that he “brought a receipt” and outside the inner council he looked like a fool.


This is still a classic


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