Mr. President, drop this petty push to void Bidens autopen pardons

Here’s hoping it was just a passing vent, and President Donald Trump isn’t going to waste his time and energy (and the nation’s) warring with the (thankfully defunct) House Select Committee on Jan.6.In the wee hours Monday morning, Trump posted on TruthSocial that the pardons for all nine members of the Jan.

6 Committee, including then-Rep.Liz Cheney, are “hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen” — so the pardonees are now “subject to investigation at the highest level.”Sorry, any such investigation isn’t just beating a dead horse, it’s digging the horse out of the ground and trying to saddle it.And it reeks of hubris: Trump’s approval ratings are sky-high because he’s been zeroed in fulfilling campaign promises, like securing the border and power-washing the waste out of federal government.Voters want him looking forward to building that new golden age, not back at old grievances.Vanishing few Americans have any desire to rehash Jan.

6, 2021, or Nancy Pelosi’s pet committee; Nov.5, 2024, settled that.Sorry, Mr.

President: Re-re-relitigating any of it is a gift to the “resistance,” handing it another stick to beat you with.Yes, the Biden White House’s overuse of the autopen is concerning.But any undermining of pardons signed via robot would require fact-finding probes and court action, when the new administration has bigger facts to find and larger issues to litigate.Trump has enough real work to do — especially on the economy — and has the support of voters to do it; going down this rabbit hole would be shooting himself in the foot....