The White House is conducting a review of potentially more than one million documents approved through the autopen process under former President Joe Biden.

The White House Counsel’s Office is leading an investigation into the former president and his staff’s use of the autopen. The White House has already assembled tens of thousands of documents from Biden’s term turned over by the National Archives for review, according to Fox News.

“Joe Biden was the worst, most incompetent, and senile president in our country’s history,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News. “It has been widely reported that Joe Biden handed the power of the presidency to an autopen controlled by unelected leftist staffers, who were allowed to make terrible decisions that destroyed our country.”

“The Trump White House is committed to finding the answers to the many outstanding questions the American people still have about how business in the Biden White House was conducted,” she said.

White House officials expect to review potentially more than one million documents from the Biden administration that were approved via autopen. One official said that the review is aimed at providing transparency to the American people about Biden’s health and his understanding of the substantial number of documents that bear the former president’s signature.

“What did the former president direct, versus what he did not,” an official said, according to Fox News. “The only time a legitimate use of the autopen should happen is if the president said he wanted something done, or if he was asked for his approval.”

Biden was recently revealed to have not specifically approved thousands of prisoners and convicts that he granted pardons and clemency to in his final days in office. The former president told The New York Times in an interview published on Sunday that he directed his staff to prepare a list of convicts that fell under certain criteria, such as those who were convicted of low-level drug offenses.

After compiling the list, White House staff used the autopen to grant relief to thousands of convicts in the president’s name. Staff did not run the final list past Biden before granting presidential relief.

Biden asserted to the Times that he “made every decision” despite the loosely supervised autopen process. The former president defended the use of the autopen in his final days in office because “we’re talking about a whole lot of people” who were given amnesty.

The White House review is running parallel to two other investigations into Biden’s autopen run by the House Oversight Committee and the Department of Justice. The White House Counsel’s Office is coordinating with the Justice Department in the review.

In 2020, as state authorities across the country were closing down churches and dictating worship practices — No singing! No more than fifty people! — my editor at a Christian magazine offered me an assignment. Would I interview renowned preacher John MacArthur, who at that time was making national headlines for opposing California Governor Gavin Newsom’s shutdown orders?

I could not have said “yes” faster.

My editor was unaware, but from the time I became a Christian some 20 years earlier, no public figure’s work had meant more to my life. No ministry had shaped me in greater ways than his international radio and podcast ministry, Grace to You. Like millions of other Christians around the world, his daily teachings had been the backdrop of mundane domestic tasks, long car rides, and sleepless nights. His books were the first resources I turned to when dealing with a crisis or trial. When I received a Stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis, his messages on suffering and prayer played through the wee hours, comforting me until I could catch a few hours of rest. When he sent me a message of personal encouragement, I told him that someday, it would be like showing my grandchildren a note I’d received from Charles Spurgeon. I laughed as I said it, but I wasn’t really joking.

They say you should never meet your heroes, the idea being that it will lead to inevitable disillusionment. I had the opposite experience with John MacArthur.

As we continued to correspond, my estimation of him grew deeper and richer. The man I spoke to privately was the same man whose public ministry I had followed so closely for so many years. His concern was always for faithful application of Scripture to any situation. And for souls. After I took a job with a conservative media company, every call I had with him included his urging me on to love and good works, especially to act as a Christian witness to any unbelieving coworkers and friends around me.

BEN SHAPIRO: A Tribute To John MacArthur, A Lion Who Was My Friend

Whether in debates on The Larry King Show or preaching from his pulpit, he never watered down the truth of Scripture to appeal to a general audience. His adherence to sound doctrine never wavered, and he never showed an ounce of reticence to preach the Word, clearly and plainly. Even in the bright glare of the secular media, he never equivocated on issues that are biblically true, but culturally unpopular.

So his staunch opposition to a government that thought it could claim jurisdiction over the practices of the church was no surprise. Nor was the open letter he wrote to Newsom, calling him to repentance.

Now, at his death at age 86, I cannot help but feel we have seen the last of the great lions pass out of the world. But I know, as Pastor John would’ve taught me, that the Lord does not leave himself without a witness. And He will raise up more teachers like Johnny Mac, as his dear friend, the great theologian R.C. Sproul, another of the great lions, used to call him.

On that note, I smile now to imagine the two of them reunited, their races now complete.

I thank the Lord for MacArthur’s legacy and that he now has the full joy of his salvation. And I live in the reassurance that, due in large part to his ministry, I will one day hear the words he is surely hearing now: well done, good and faithful servant.