Biden’s Chief of Staff Under Fire for Autopen plus U.S. May Join Allies in Labeling Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorists
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
1. Allegations Regarding President Joe Biden’s Use of the Autopen for Pardons
- The podcast claims that President Biden may not have been fully aware of what he was signing via autopen during his final days in office.
- It references a New York Times article and a forthcoming book titled Original Sin.
- Allegations include:
- Biden’s inner circle blocked him from campaign prep and briefings.
- Chief of Staff Jeff Zients approved the use of the autopen for multiple preemptive pardons, including for Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milley.
- The legitimacy of these pardons is questioned, with Donald Trump calling it a major scandal.
- The narrative suggests that Biden’s aides, not the President himself, made final decisions on pardons.
2. Proposed Legislation to Designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization
- Senator Ted Cruz is introducing the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025.
- The bill proposes a bottom-up approach to designation, differing from past efforts that failed due to the non-violent status of some Brotherhood branches.
- It urges Secretary of State Marco Rubio to:
- Catalog global branches of the Muslim Brotherhood.
- Designate those meeting terrorism criteria.
- The bill outlines three pathways for designation:
- Congressional action under the 1987 Anti-Terrorism Act.
- State Department designation.
- Designation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group.
- The legislation is supported by GOP senators and aligns with actions taken by countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
- Cruz compares this effort to Trump’s 2017 designation of Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist group.
- The document includes Cruz’s direct statements, emphasizing the Brotherhood’s global reach, violent ideology, and alleged ties to groups like Hamas.
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| 0:23.0 | You're listening to the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson. |
| 0:26.8 | Good Wednesday morning. So nice to have you with us on the 47 morning update, and we've got |
| 0:30.7 | two major stories we're going to be dealing with this morning. First up, Joe Biden, in |
| 0:35.8 | serious trouble with the auto pin. |
| 0:38.3 | Apparently, he was not the one making the decisions at the end of the day when it came to who was going to receive a presidential pardon in the final hours of his presidency. |
| 0:48.8 | This could spell major issues for people like Dr. Anthony Fauci, and I'll have more on that in a moment. |
| 0:55.0 | Also, the Muslim Brotherhood is an organization that many other countries have already |
| 1:00.3 | designated as a terrorist organization. Yet why has the United States of America not done so |
| 1:05.8 | so far? Well, there's new legislation to make that happen, and it could be a major moment for this White House, including the possibility of an executive order. |
| 1:16.3 | We'll have those details for you as well. |
| 1:18.8 | It's the 47 morning update, and it starts right now. |
| 1:22.2 | Story number one. |
| 1:23.4 | In a shocking article coming from the New York Times. |
| 1:27.2 | Yes, that New York Times, the liberal New York Times, |
| 1:30.7 | they are now claiming that Joe Biden did not know what he was signing |
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