Facing questions about his mental acuity, the former president told The New York Times he made all clemency decisions.

Biden only signed off on the criteria and standards for granting these pardons, an investigation of the email communications show.

Questions intensified over the validity of former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci, as new reports revealed it was signed via autopen with late-night approval from Biden’s chief of staff amid probes into the ex-president’s mental state.