Trump's DOJ fails to find 'sufficient evidence' to prosecute his biggest rival

[LetMyPeopleVote]

trump put a great deal of pressure on his sad and poor excuse of a DOJ and on Pirro and Bondi to find some way to indict and prosecute President Joe Biden for using the same autopen that trump uses.

President Donald Trump's allies in the Department of Justice failed to find "sufficient evidence" to prosecute one of the president's biggest political foes, a new report revealed.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-04T21:31:21Z

https://www.rawstory.com/biden-autopen-2675554803

President Donald Trump's allies in the Department of Justice failed to find "sufficient evidence" to prosecute one of the president's biggest political foes, a new report revealed.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Trump's DOJ failed to build a case against former President Joe Biden concerning his use of an autopen while in office. The case was being prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro in Washington, D.C., but was "quietly shelved" around the same time that Pirro failed to indict six Democratic members of Congress for a social media video in which they told military troops they don't have to obey illegal orders, according to the report.

"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 Times reported. "Some of those cases were rejected by grand juries, some were rejected by judges, and some, like the autopen case, were abandoned by prosecutors."....

The failure of Trump's DOJ to indict Biden for his autopen usage is also the latest in a long line of defeats the department has suffered while going after Trump's political foes. Trump has sought to prosecute foes like former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, but courts have rejected the attempts.

[spanone]

1. What a fucking stupid case. Is autopen usage a crime? More proof of his insanity.

[newdeal2]

2. Now that this has been leaked, expect a reversal

Trump will freak out and demand it.

[Ocelot II]

3. Didn't the Supremes just decide that a president is immune from prosecution for anything he does

in connection with his official duties? It was a terrible decision but like it or not, it applies to Biden as well as to Piggy.

[vapor2]

4. these goons are just mentally ill and unserious

[Hey Joe]

5. Pirro Grigio fails again!

Her besotted incompetence makes this DOJ
look like a joke.
Again and again and again……..

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. MaddowBlog-Trump's Justice Dept. reportedly failed to find a crime in Biden's use of autopen

One former U.S. attorney described the investigation itself as “a disgusting abuse of power,” which was more than fair given the circumstances.

There’s obviously a lot going on, but the fact that federal prosecutors tried to build a criminal case against Joe Biden — based on no evidence, because Trump barked unjust orders — is quite insane.

The collapse of the case doesn’t negate the underlying abuse.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-05T14:07:50.994Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-justice-dept-reportedly-failed-to-find-a-crime-in-bidens-use-of-autopen

In a healthier political environment, June 4, 2025, would be recognized as one of the most important days of Donald Trump’s presidency. It was on that day that the Republican incumbent took a step no American president had ever before taken: He directed the Department of Justice to launch a wide-ranging investigation into Joe Biden, based on Republican conspiracy theories about the Democrat’s mental acuity.

This was the first time in the nation’s history that an incumbent American president publicly ordered a federal probe into his predecessor.....

Whatever happened to this presidential directive? Nine months later, we appear to have an answer. The New York Times reported:

The Justice Department, after calls by President Trump to investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., scrutinized whether Mr. Biden and his aides broke the law in using the autopen to sign presidential documents, but was ultimately unable to move forward with making a case, according to three people briefed on the matter.

.......University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney and an MS NOW legal analyst, described this as “a disgusting abuse of power” — an assessment that is more than fair, given the circumstances.

Making matters worse is the degree to which these abuses have become the new norm since Trump returned to power. It was, after all, just last week when the public learned that Trump’s Justice Department also tried and failed to secure felony indictments against six members of Congress (two Democratic senators and four Democratic House members) because they appeared in a video urging military service members to disregard illegal orders.

The move didn’t turn out well — regular citizens on a grand jury rejected the ridiculous gambit — but the fact that such an effort was made against a group of military and intelligence veterans who’d done nothing wrong was similarly indefensible.....

What’s more, the apparent demise of that case didn’t negate the fact that Team Trump is still pursuing cases against a lengthy list of Democrats, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Sen. Adam Schiff of California, Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.....

Soon after, Main Justice unfurled a giant banner featuring the president’s face on its facade. The move removed a pretense that no one took seriously anyway. As The Wall Street Journal summarized in November, this is a Justice Department in which the president, not the attorney general, “calls the shots.”

The criminal investigation into Biden is powerful evidence in support of the thesis, though it’s a big piece of a larger puzzle.