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'You're Wrong' With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 158: Autopen

Federalist Radio Hour

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Join Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi and Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway as they discuss whether the Biden White House will face accountability for its alleged autopen scandal, dive into the Epstein files controversy, and analyze the Turning Point USA foreign policy debate between Dave Smith and Josh Hammer. Mollie and David also share their thoughts on French musical group Kid Francescoli, the third installment of The Godfather trilogy, and several of their current reads.

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of Your Wrong with Molly Hemingway, editor-inin-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner.

0:25.0

Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email the show, please do so at Radio at the Federalist.com.

0:31.3

Molly, let's talk about autopens or an auto pen.

0:35.4

This week, the, well, I mean, there's been an investigation ongoing, but the New York

0:40.3

Times, I think, reported that Joe Biden, unsurprisingly, was not, I mean, this was kind of buried

0:47.9

in the story, actually, but that Joe Biden was not really aware of all the people that he pardoned,

0:53.1

the massive number of people.

0:54.8

I think it was a thousand, five hundred on one day, even though I believe there were 8,000

0:59.4

or more pardons overall and clemencies that he gave in the last days of his presidency.

1:05.7

I think it's a pretty big story.

1:07.0

I think it's a giant scandal.

1:08.3

I don't think we're going to be able to do anything about it.

1:11.4

What were your, what did you think? So this might seem like a really weird way to get into this,

1:17.0

but back during the hoax against Brett Kavanaugh, there was this piece written by Ronan Farrow

1:24.0

and Jane Mayer in the New Yorker. And Jane Mayer is someone who's just had like her

1:30.5

life's goal to be to say horrible things about any member of the Supreme Court who's not doing

1:38.1

what she would like them to do. She's written books against Clarence Thomas. And so she

1:42.4

jumped on the Kavanaugh hoax fully.

1:47.1

And their story was about, I think it was about something that happened in his undergrad years.

1:58.0

And I think I've read that story like 30 times and I still have no idea what

2:03.0

they're trying to say he did. Literally no idea. And I'm not a dummy. I know how to understand

2:09.3

stories I read, but I do not understand what Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer were saying about the

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