Who?
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
LISTEN: Laslo & Johnson
Ask a Pol asks:
Do you have concerns about Biden’s autopen signing pardons at the end?
Key Johnson:
“Yeah. We all should be,” Sen. Ron Johnson exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “It all speaks to the question: who was in charge? Okay? And that’s a serious question.
“And again, what we’re doing in my committee is, we’re interviewing the constitutional officers: ‘What’d you know? What’d you see?’ Provide historical record.”
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Caught our ear:
If Biden did use the autopen, would that negate his pardons?
“It probably would,” Johnson tells us.
And then what happens? Should we see prosecutions?
“Depends on what crimes people may have committed,” Johnson says.
Yeah?
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s interview with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ron Johnson (10-29-2025)
SCENE: After voting on the Senate floor, Sen. Ron Johnson’s making his way back to his office across the street from the US Capitol via a walkway that runs along underground trams when he runs into Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo…
Matt Laslo: “Do you have concerns about Biden’s autopen signing pardons at the end?”
Ron Johnson: “Yeah. We all should be.”
ML: “Yeah?”
RJ: “I guess — again, it all speaks to the question: who was in charge?”
ML: “Yeah? Yeah.”
RJ: “Okay? And that’s a serious question.”
ML: “Yeah.”
RJ: “And again, what we’re doing in my committee is, we’re interviewing the constitutional officers: ‘What’d you know? What’d you see?’ Provide historical record.”
ML: “Yeah?”
RJ: “Because if this happens in the future, they’ve got to realize, they have a responsibility to the Constitution. You can’t allow somebody who’s not capable of fulfilling the awesome duties of president to do this and let somebody else — completely unelected, unknown to the American public — run the show.”
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ML: “Yeah? If he did use the autopen, would that negate, then, these pardons?”
RJ: “It probably would.”
ML: “And then what happens? Should we see prosecutions?”
RJ: “Depends on what crimes people may have committed, okay?”
ML: “Yeah?”
RJ: “Again, I can’t — that’s all hypothetical.”
ML: “Yeah.”
RJ: “That’s something in the future. But no, we should get to the bottom of this. People need to come forward. They, you know, I mean — it tells you something that they’re pleading the fifth, right?”
ML: “Yeah?”
RJ: “That’s not a good sign.”
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ML: “So you still have a lot more questions?”
RJ: “Oh, I always have way more questions than we ever get answers.”
ML: “Yeah, that’s my job too.”
RJ: “Okay.”
Andrey Beregovskiy contributed to this report.
