Former President Joe Biden, in an interview with the New York Times, said that he personally made every clemency and pardon decision during the end of his presidency.

Former President Joe Biden orally granted thousands of pardons and commutations in the final months of his term, he told the New York Times.

Former President Joe Biden said in a new interview published on Sunday that he “consciously” made all of the clemency decisions during his presidency, a defense that comes as a House committee is probing the 46th president’s use of an autopen for the controversial pardons and commutations.